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| 9317355065 | apostrophe | addressing a nonhuman object as if it were present and could reply | 0 | |
| 9317358304 | connotation | what a word suggests beyond its basic definition; a word's overtones of meaning | 1 | |
| 9317363204 | denotation | the dictionary definition of a word | 2 | |
| 9317366753 | ekphrasis | the poetic representation of a painting or sculpture in words | 3 | |
| 9317371747 | epigram | 1) short witty poem expressing a single thought or observation 2) concise, clever, often paradoxical statement | 4 | |
| 9317390156 | extended figure | figure of speech developed through a considerable number of lines/whole poem | 5 | |
| 9317395829 | figurative language | language that cannot be taken literally | 6 | |
| 9317398532 | juxtaposition | positioning opposites next to each other to heighten the contrast | 7 | |
| 9317401160 | metaphor | a comparison between two things | 8 | |
| 9317403008 | metonymy | a significant aspect/detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience | 9 | |
| 9317410092 | onomatopoeia | words that sound like what they mean (boom, click, plop) | 10 | |
| 9317412780 | personfication | giving inanimate objects human qualities or characteristics | 11 | |
| 9317420116 | rhythm | any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound | 12 | |
| 9317423179 | sentimentality | unmerited or contrived tender feeling; seeks to elicit tears | 13 | |
| 9317428596 | simile | comparison between two things using like or as | 14 | |
| 9317430378 | synecdoche | figure of speech in which the part is used for the whole | 15 | |
| 9317433795 | syntax | word organization and order | 16 | |
| 9317436390 | alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning (or accented syllables) of important words) | 17 | |
| 9317443621 | anapest | metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable (understand) | 18 | |
| 9317448514 | anapestic meter | meter in which the majority of feet are anapests | 19 | |
| 9317453065 | approximate rhyme | words in a rhyming pattern that have some sort of sound correspondence but do not rhyme exactly | 20 | |
| 9317462140 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | 21 | |
| 9317464004 | blank verse | poetry with meter, but not rhymed (usually iambic pentameter) | 22 | |
| 9317467951 | consonance | repetition of consonant sounds | 23 | |
| 9317470237 | couplet | two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme | 24 | |
| 9317493331 | dactyl | a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables (merrily) | 25 | |
| 9317500428 | dactylic meter | meter in which a majority of the feet are dactyls | 26 | |
| 9317502463 | end rhyme | rhymes that occur at the ends of lines | 27 | |
| 9317505001 | end-stopped line | line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation (opposite of enjambment) | 28 | |
| 9317516535 | enjambment | a line which has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the next line (opposite of end-stopped line) | 29 | |
| 9317525469 | English/Shakespearean sonnet | three quatrains and one couplet, rhyme pattern ababcdcdefefgg | 30 | |
| 9317532763 | feminine rhyme | rhyme in which the stress is on the penultimate syllable of the words (picky) | 31 | |
| 9317536520 | foot | basic unit used in scansion (measurement of verse); usually contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables | 32 | |
| 9317544565 | free verse | nonmetrical verse; no pattern/rhyme expectation | 33 | |
| 9317547861 | half rhyme (slant rhyme) | consonance of the final consonants of the words involved | 34 | |
| 9317553476 | heroic couplet | poems constructed in a sequence of two lines of (usually rhyming) verse in iambic pentameter | 35 | |
| 9317559540 | iamb | a metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable (rehearse) | 36 |
