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| 5992704012 | Alliteration | The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at beginnings of words "Gnus never know pneumonia" | 0 | |
| 5992713004 | Allusion | A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work. | 1 | |
| 5992717937 | Antithesis | A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas, as in "Man proposes; God disposes" or the balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness | 2 | |
| 5992727953 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone (usually, but not always absent), some abstract quality or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present "Papa Above!" "Regard a Mouse." | 3 | |
| 5992739384 | Assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. "A land laid waste with all its young men slain" repeats the same "a" sound in "laid, waste, and slain" | 4 | |
| 5992755740 | Ballad Meter | A four-line stanza rhymed (abcb) with four feet in lines one and three feet in lines two and four | 5 | |
| 5992793534 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter. This is the meter of most Shakespeare's plays, as well as that of Milton's Paradise Lost "my Grave is Like to Be my WEDding Bed" | 6 | |
| 5992815740 | Cacophony | A harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones. "Irks care the crop-full bird? Frets doubt the maw-crammed beast?" | 7 | |
| 5992829894 | Caesura | a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause "To err is human, to forget divine" | 8 | |
| 5992836739 | Conceit | An ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborated analogy, and pointing to striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things. It may be a BRIEF METAPHOR, but it also may form the framework of an entire poem. | 9 | |
| 5992859685 | Consonance | The repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words. The term usually refers to words in which the ending consonants are the same but the vowels that precede them are different. "add and "read" | 10 | |
| 5992871129 | Couplet | A two line stanza, usually with end-rhymes the same. "Blessed are you whose worthiness gives scope,/Being had, to triumph; being lacked, to hope." | 11 | |
| 5992879853 | Devices of sound | The techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry. Among them are Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, and Onomatopoeia. | 12 | |
| 5992888807 | Diction | The use of words in literary work. Diction may be described as formal, informal, colloquial, or slang | 13 | |
| 5992892485 | Didactic Poem | A poem which is intended primarily to teach a lesson, it usually involves a subjective judgement of the author's purpose on the part of the critic or the reader | 14 | |
| 5992903688 | Dramatic Poem | A poem which employs a dramatic for or some element or elements of dramatic techniques as a means of achieving poetic ends. (usually contains dialogue) | 15 | |
| 5992917945 | Elegy | A sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet's meditations upon death or another solemn theme. | 16 | |
| 5992923257 | 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 "True ease in writing comes from Art, not Chance,/As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance." | 17 | |
| 5992931530 | Enjambment | The continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the Milton's Paradise Lost is a notable for it's use of enjambment, as seen in the following lines: .... Or if Sion hill/ Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flow'd/Fast by the oracle of God,... | 18 | |
| 5992945020 | Extended Metaphor | An implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem. In "The Bait", John Donne compares a beautiful woman to fish bait and men to fish who want to be caught by the woman. Since he carries these comparisons all the way through the poem. | 19 | |
| 6139262028 | Euphony (Euphora) | A style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear predominate, opposite of cacophony Ex. A think of beauty is joy for ever/ Its loveliness increases; it will never....Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. | 20 | |
| 6139268617 | Eye Rhyme | Rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme Ex. "watch" and "match / "love" and "move" | 21 | |
| 6139286355 | Feminine Rhyme | A rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed Ex. "waken" and "forsaken" | 22 | |
| 6139295331 | Figurative Language | Writing that uses figures of speech such as, metaphor, irony, and simile | 23 | |
| 6139301408 | Free Verse | Poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical. | 24 | |
| 6139311432 | Heroic Couplet | Two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit. Ex. But when to mischief mortals bend their will,/How soon they find fit instruments of ill! | 25 | |
| 6139323377 | Hyperbole | A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration. It may be used for either serious or comic effect. Ex. Macbeth ....No; this my hand will rather/ The multitudinous seas incarnadine,/ Making the green one red. | 26 | |
| 6139337562 | Imagery | The images, sensory details, and figurative language of literary work. (Some diction can also be imagery) | 27 | |
| 6139347737 | Irony | The contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning. Verbal irony is a figure of speech in which the actual intent is expressed in words which carry the opposite meaning. (Often confused with sarcasm) | 28 | |
| 6139366334 | Internal Rhyme | Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end. Ex. Once upon a midnight DREARY, while I pondered weak and WEARY | 29 | |
| 6139379338 | Lyric poem | Any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings. (Sonnets and Odes are lyric poems) | 30 | |
| 6139393857 | Masculine Rhyme | Rhyme that falls on the stressed and concluding syllables of the rhyme-words. Ex. "keep" and "sleep" | 31 | |
| 6139399052 | Metaphor | A figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of comparative term like "as," "like" or "than" | 32 | |
| 6139414751 | Meter | The repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry. This type of poem emphasizes the musical quality of the language and often relates directly to the subject matter of the poem. | 33 | |
| 6139431729 | Metonymy | A 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. (we commonly speak of the king as the "crown" an object associated with kingship) | 34 | |
| 6139453046 | Mixed Metaphors | The mingling of one metaphor with another immediately following with the first is incongruous. Ex. "I smell a rat. I see it floating in the air. I shall nip it in the bud." | 35 | |
| 6139464109 | Narrative Poem | A non-dramatic poem which tells a story or presents a narrative, whether simple or complex, long or short. (Epics and Ballads are examples of this) | 36 | |
| 6139476375 | Octave | an eight line stanza. Most commonly, octave refers to the first decision of an Italian sonnet. | 37 | |
| 6139482488 | Onomatopoeia | The use of words whose sound suggests their meaning. Ex. "buzz" "hiss" or "honk" | 38 | |
| 6139488758 | 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. Ex. "wise fool" "sad joy" and "eloquent silence" | 39 |
