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| 6304770641 | alliteration | repetition of similar consonant sounds | 0 | |
| 6304770642 | 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 | |
| 6304770644 | apostrophe | an address to either an absent person, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage | 2 | |
| 6304770645 | assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds | 3 | |
| 6304770646 | ballad | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. | 4 | |
| 6304770647 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 5 | |
| 6304770648 | cacophony | a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones | 6 | |
| 6304770650 | 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. | 7 | |
| 6304770651 | couplet | 2 consecutive rhyming lines | 8 | |
| 6304770652 | diction | author/poet's word choice | 9 | |
| 6304770653 | didactic poem | a poem which is intended to teach a lesson | 10 | |
| 6304770654 | dramatic poem | a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element of dramatic techniques (think theater drama) | 11 | |
| 6304770655 | elegy | a formal poem that mourns the loss of someone, a lament for the dead | 12 | |
| 6304770657 | enjambment | the continuation from one line to the next with no pause | 13 | |
| 6304770658 | epic poem | a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero | 14 | |
| 6304770659 | extended metaphor | an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem | 15 | |
| 6304770660 | eye rhyme/slant rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from pronunciation | 16 | |
| 6304770661 | free verse | poetry which is not written in traditional meter or rhyme | 17 | |
| 6304770663 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 18 | |
| 6304849864 | iambic pentameter | five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables. Hint: Shakespeare is famous for using this. Read more at http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-iambic-pentameter.html#ILmjQe2gELeRQ5cZ.99 | 19 | |
| 6304770664 | imagery | anything that appeals to at least one of the five senses, | 20 | |
| 6304770665 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | 21 | |
| 6304770666 | lyric poem | a short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings, usually identified by its musical/lyrical quality | 22 | |
| 6304770667 | metaphor | a direct comparison | 23 | |
| 6304770669 | narrative poem | a poem which tells a story or presents a narrative (epics and ballads are examples) | 24 | |
| 6304770670 | octave | an eight line stanza | 25 | |
| 6304770671 | ode | a lyric poem written in the form of an address to someone or something, often elevated in style | 26 | |
| 6304770672 | onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning | 27 | |
| 6304770673 | oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression | 28 | |
| 6304770674 | 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 | 29 | |
| 6304770676 | personification | giving inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics | 30 | |
| 6304770677 | quatrain | four line stanza | 31 | |
| 6304770678 | 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 | 32 | |
| 6304770679 | rhyme | correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry | 33 | |
| 6304770680 | rhythm | the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllable | 34 | |
| 6304770681 | rhyme scheme | the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse. | 35 | |
| 6304770682 | sestet | a six line stanza | 36 | |
| 6304770683 | simile | a comparison of 2 seemingly unlike things using like, as or than | 37 | |
| 6304770684 | sonnet | a fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme | 38 | |
| 6304770685 | speaker | the voice of the poem, not necessarily the poet | 39 | |
| 6304770686 | stanza | a group of lines in a poem | 40 | |
| 6304770688 | symbol | something that represents something else | 41 | |
| 6304770690 | syntax | the ordering of words into patterns or sentences, sentence structure | 42 | |
| 6304770691 | tercet | a stanza of three lines in which each lines ends with the same rhyme | 43 | |
| 6304770692 | terza rima | a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc | 44 | |
| 6304770693 | theme | main thought expressed by a work | 45 | |
| 6304770694 | tone | the author's attitude toward the subject | 46 | |
| 6304770695 | understatement | a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is | 47 | |
| 6304770696 | 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. | 48 | |
| 6304770697 | meter | stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem | 49 | |
| 9606418513 | synechdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning "Cleveland's baseball team"). | 50 | |
| 9606449426 | antecedent | a grammatical word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him"); broadly: a word or phrase replaced by a substitute | 51 | |
| 9606534808 | metonymy | a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as "scepter" for "sovereignty," or "the bottle" for "strong drink," or "suit" for "business person." | 52 |
