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| 6063006127 | alliteration | repetition of similar consonant sounds | 0 | |
| 6063006128 | 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 | |
| 6063006130 | apostrophe | an address to either an absent person, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage | 2 | |
| 6063006131 | assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds | 3 | |
| 6063006132 | ballad | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. | 4 | |
| 6063006133 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 5 | |
| 6063006134 | cacophony | a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones | 6 | |
| 6063006135 | 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 | 7 | |
| 6063006136 | conceit | an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy or extended metaphor and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things. | 8 | |
| 6063006137 | couplet | 2 consecutive rhyming lines | 9 | |
| 6063006138 | diction | author/poet's word choice | 10 | |
| 6063006139 | didactic poem | a poem which is intended to teach a lesson | 11 | |
| 6063006141 | elegy | a formal poem that mourns the loss of someone, a lament for the dead | 12 | |
| 6063006142 | end stopped | a line with a pause at the end | 13 | |
| 6063006143 | enjambment | the continuation from one line to the next with no pause | 14 | |
| 9031612532 | euphony | refers to language that is smooth and musically pleasant to the ear | 15 | |
| 6063006144 | epic poem | a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero | 16 | |
| 6063006145 | extended metaphor | an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem | 17 | |
| 6063006146 | eye rhyme/slant rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from pronunciation | 18 | |
| 6063006147 | free verse | poetry which is not written in traditional meter or rhyme | 19 | |
| 6063006148 | heroic couplet | two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter (ten syllables, unstressed/stressed) | 20 | |
| 6063006149 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 21 | |
| 6063006150 | imagery | anything that appeals to at least one of the five senses, | 22 | |
| 6063006151 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | 23 | |
| 6063006152 | lyric poem | a short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings, usually identified by its musical/lyrical quality | 24 | |
| 6063006153 | metaphor | a direct comparison | 25 | |
| 9031622249 | meter | regular patter of stressed and unstressed syllables | 26 | |
| 6063006154 | 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 | 27 | |
| 6063006155 | narrative poem | a poem which tells a story or presents a narrative (epics and ballads are examples) | 28 | |
| 6063006156 | octave | an eight line stanza | 29 | |
| 6063006157 | ode | a lyric poem written in the form of an address to someone or something, often elevated in style | 30 | |
| 6063006158 | onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning | 31 | |
| 6063006159 | oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression | 32 | |
| 6063006160 | 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 | 33 | |
| 6063006161 | parallelism | similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry | 34 | |
| 9031629020 | persona | the narrator or the storyteller of a literary work created by the author | 35 | |
| 6063006162 | personification | giving inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics | 36 | |
| 6063006163 | quatrain | four line stanza | 37 | |
| 6063006164 | refrain | a group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza | 38 | |
| 6063006165 | rhyme | correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry | 39 | |
| 6063006166 | rhythm | the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllable | 40 | |
| 6063006167 | rhyme scheme | the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse. | 41 | |
| 6063006168 | sestet | a six line stanza | 42 | |
| 6063006169 | simile | a comparison of 2 seemingly unlike things using like, as or than | 43 | |
| 6063006170 | sonnet | a fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme | 44 | |
| 6063006171 | speaker | the voice of the poem, not necessarily the poet | 45 | |
| 6063006172 | stanza | a group of lines in a poem | 46 | |
| 6063006173 | structure | the arrangement of materials within a work | 47 | |
| 6063006174 | symbol | something that represents something else | 48 | |
| 6063006175 | synecdoche | a form of metaphor in which mentioning a part signifies the whole | 49 | |
| 6063006176 | syntax | the ordering of words into patterns or sentences, sentence structure | 50 | |
| 6063006177 | tercet | a stanza of three lines in which each lines ends with the same rhyme | 51 | |
| 6063006178 | terza rima | a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc | 52 | |
| 6063006179 | theme | main thought expressed by a work | 53 | |
| 6063006180 | tone | the author's attitude toward the subject | 54 | |
| 6063006181 | understatement | a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is | 55 | |
| 6063006182 | villanelle | a 19 line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain. Line 1 is repeated in lines 6, 12, and 18 and line 3 is repeated in lines 9, 15, 19. | 56 |
