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| 11115067439 | alliteration | the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words. | 0 | |
| 11115067440 | allusion | a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work | 1 | |
| 11115067441 | anaphora | the deliberate repetition of the first part of a line in subsequent lines | 2 | |
| 11115067442 | antithesis | a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas | 3 | |
| 11115067443 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which someone, a abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present | 4 | |
| 11115067444 | assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds | 5 | |
| 11115067445 | asyndeton | a rhetorical term for a style which omits conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses producing a hurried rhythm | 6 | |
| 11115067446 | ballad meter | a four-line stanza rhymed abcb in which lines one and three have four feet and lines two and four have three feet | 7 | |
| 11115067447 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter, meter of most of Shakespeare's plays | 8 | |
| 11115067448 | cacophony | a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones | 9 | |
| 11115067450 | caesura | a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line | 10 | |
| 11115067456 | chiasmus | rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect | 11 | |
| 11115067453 | conceit | an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy, and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things, a brief metaphor | 12 | |
| 11115067449 | consonance | the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words | 13 | |
| 11115067451 | couplet | a two-line stanza, usually with end-rhymes the same | 14 | |
| 11115067452 | devices of sound | rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia used for many reasons, including creating a general effect of pleasant or of discordant sound, to imitate another sound, or to reflect a meaning. | 15 | |
| 11115067471 | diction | the use of words in a literary work, can be formal, informal, colloquial or slang | 16 | |
| 11115067479 | didactic poem | a poem which is intended primarily to teach a lesson. | 17 | |
| 11115067454 | dramatic poem | a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element or elements of dramatic techniques as a means of achieving poetic ends. The dramatic monologue is an example. | 18 | |
| 11115067485 | elegy | a sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet's meditations upon death or another solemn theme | 19 | |
| 11115067488 | ellipsis | A linguistically appropriate omission of words that are mutually understood and thus unnecessary | 20 | |
| 11115067491 | end-stopped | a line with a pause at the end. Lines that end with a period, a comma, a colon, a semicolon, an exclamation point, or a question mark are end-stopped lines | 21 | |
| 11115067495 | enjambment | the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next | 22 | |
| 11115067497 | extended metaphor | an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem | 23 | |
| 11153540669 | euphony | a style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear predominate | 24 | |
| 12988604242 | eye rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from the pronunciation | 25 | |
| 12988604243 | feminine rhyme | a rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed | 26 | |
| 12988604244 | figurative language | writing that uses figures of speech (as opposed to literal language or that which is actual or specifically denoted | 27 | |
| 12988604245 | free verse | poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical. | 28 | |
| 12988604246 | heroic couplet | two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit. | 29 | |
| 12988604247 | hyperbole | a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration. | 30 | |
| 12988604248 | imagery | the visual auditory, or tactile images evoked by the words of a literary work or the images that figurative language evokes. | 31 | |
| 12988604249 | irony | the contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning. Types of irony are verbal, socratic, dramatic, and situational. | 32 | |
| 12988604250 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end. The following lines contain internal | 33 | |
| 12988604251 | litote | an intentional use of understatement for ironic effect | 34 | |
| 12988604252 | lyric poem | any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings. | 35 | |
| 12988604253 | malapropism | the use of an incorrect word in place of a similar sounding word for humorous effect. | 36 | |
| 12988604254 | masculine rhyme | rhyme that falls on the stressed and concluding syllables of the rhyme-words. | 37 | |
| 12988604255 | metaphor | a figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like "as," "like," or "than." | 38 | |
| 12988604256 | meter | the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry. The meter of a poem emphasizes the musical quality of the language and often relates directly to the subject matter of the poem. | 39 | |
| 12988604257 | menotymy | figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself. | 40 | |
| 12988604258 | mixed metaphors | the mingling of one metaphor with another immediately following with which the first is incongruous | 41 | |
| 12988604259 | narrative poem | a non-dramatic poem which tells a story or presents a narrative, whether simple or complex, long or short, like epics or ballads | 42 | |
| 12988604260 | non-sequitor | a statement not connected in a logical or clear way to anything that has come before it. | 43 | |
| 12988604261 | octave | an eight-line stanza. Most commonly, octave refers to the first division of an Italian sonnet. | 44 | |
| 12988604262 | onnomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning. | 45 | |
| 12988604263 | oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression. This combination usually serves the purpose of shocking the reader into awareness. "wise fool" | 46 | |
| 12988604264 | paradox | a situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least to make sense. | 47 | |
| 12988604265 | parallelism | a similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry. | 48 | |
| 13658216852 | polystndeton | repetition of conjugations | 49 | |
| 13658216853 | quatrain | 4 line stanza | 50 | |
| 13658216854 | refrain | a line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem | 51 | |
| 13658216855 | scancion | the process of analyzing a poem's meter | 52 | |
| 13658220146 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 53 |
