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| 6190770470 | alliteration | repetition of similar consonant sounds | 0 | |
| 6190770471 | 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 | |
| 6190770473 | apostrophe | an address to either an absent person, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage | 2 | |
| 6190770475 | ballad | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. | 3 | |
| 6190770476 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 4 | |
| 6190770480 | couplet | 2 consecutive rhyming lines | 5 | |
| 6190770481 | diction | author/poet's word choice | 6 | |
| 6190770482 | didactic poem | a poem which is intended to teach a lesson | 7 | |
| 6190770483 | dramatic poem | a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element of dramatic techniques (think theater drama) | 8 | |
| 6190770484 | elegy | a formal poem that mourns the loss of someone, a lament for the dead | 9 | |
| 6190770485 | end stopped | a line with a pause at the end | 10 | |
| 6190770486 | enjambment | the continuation from one line to the next with no pause | 11 | |
| 6190770487 | epic poem | a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero | 12 | |
| 6190770488 | extended metaphor | an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem | 13 | |
| 6190770489 | eye rhyme/slant rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from pronunciation | 14 | |
| 6190770490 | free verse | poetry which is not written in traditional meter or rhyme | 15 | |
| 6190770493 | imagery | anything that appeals to at least one of the five senses, | 16 | |
| 6190770494 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | 17 | |
| 6190770495 | lyric poem | a short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings, usually identified by its musical/lyrical quality | 18 | |
| 6190770496 | metaphor | a direct comparison | 19 | |
| 6190770497 | 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 | 20 | |
| 6190770498 | narrative poem | a poem which tells a story or presents a narrative (epics and ballads are examples) | 21 | |
| 6190770499 | octave | an eight line stanza | 22 | |
| 6190770500 | ode | a lyric poem written in the form of an address to someone or something, often elevated in style | 23 | |
| 6190770501 | onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning | 24 | |
| 6190770502 | oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression | 25 | |
| 6190770503 | 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 | 26 | |
| 6190770505 | personification | giving inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics | 27 | |
| 6190770506 | quatrain | four line stanza | 28 | |
| 6190770508 | rhyme | correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry | 29 | |
| 6190770509 | rhythm | the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllable | 30 | |
| 6190770510 | rhyme scheme | the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse. | 31 | |
| 6190770512 | simile | a comparison of 2 seemingly unlike things using like, as or than | 32 | |
| 6190770513 | sonnet | a fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme | 33 | |
| 6190770514 | speaker | the voice of the poem, not necessarily the poet | 34 | |
| 6190770515 | stanza | a group of lines in a poem | 35 | |
| 6190770516 | structure | the arrangement of materials within a work | 36 | |
| 6190770517 | symbol | something that represents something else | 37 | |
| 6190770518 | synecdoche | a form of metaphor in which mentioning a part signifies the whole | 38 | |
| 6190770519 | syntax | the ordering of words into patterns or sentences, sentence structure | 39 | |
| 6190770520 | tercet | a stanza of three lines in which each lines ends with the same rhyme | 40 | |
| 6190770521 | terza rima | a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc | 41 | |
| 6190770522 | theme | main thought expressed by a work | 42 | |
| 6190770523 | tone | the author's attitude toward the subject | 43 | |
| 6190770526 | meter | stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem | 44 | |
| 6190812617 | Verse | A Verse is a collection of metrical lines of poetry. It is used to define the difference of poetry and prose. It contains rhythm and pattern and more often than not, rhyme. | 45 | |
| 6190820511 | Line | 46 | ||
| 6190834424 | Occasion | "occasional poetry" describes the work's purpose and the poet's relation to subject matter. | 47 | |
| 6190849744 | Enjambent | The continuation of a complete idea (a sentence or clause) from one line or couplet of a poem to the next line or couplet without a pause. An example of enjambment can be found in the first line of Joyce Kilmer's poem Trees: "I think that I shall never see/A poem as lovely as a tree." Enjambment comes from the French word for "to straddle." | 48 | |
| 6190855503 | soliloquy | an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play. | 49 | |
| 6190859769 | Anthropomorphism | Anthropomorphism | 50 | |
| 6190862669 | Blank Verse | Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Shakespeare wrote most of his plays in blank verse. | 51 | |
| 6190865646 | Inversion | Inversion, also known as anastrophe, is a literary technique in which the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter. | 52 | |
| 6190870611 | Elizabethan Pronouns and Possessives | thou the thine | 53 | |
| 6190877992 | Personification | Personification is when you assign the qualities of a person to something that isn't human or, in some cases, to something that isn't even alive. | 54 |
