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| 6753503370 | alliteration | It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series. |  | 0 |
| 6753510655 | allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. |  | 1 |
| 6753527244 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. |  | 2 |
| 6753543638 | assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity ex: deep green sea |  | 3 |
| 6753554044 | blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter ex: Shakespeare's speeches |  | 4 |
| 6753572462 | cacophany | tremendous noise, disharmonious sound used for effect |  | 5 |
| 6753597753 | couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. end the pattern of a Shakespearean |  | 6 |
| 6753616833 | dialogue | Conversation between two or more characters in a poem. |  | 7 |
| 6753627787 | diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words-formal, informal, slang etc. |  | 8 |
| 6753642607 | enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. |  | 9 |
| 6753655283 | epic | A long narrative poem, told in a formal, elevated style, that focuses on a serious subject and chronicles heroic deeds and events important to a culture or nation. ex from western culture inlude Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid and Milton's Paradise Lost. |  | 10 |
| 6753682774 | euphony | pleasant, harmonious sound used to produce a melodious effect |  | 11 |
| 6753696613 | explication | The complete and detailed interpretation or analysis of a text, often word-by-word and line-by-line. |  | 12 |
| 6753743952 | figurative language | A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. Ex include hyperbole or exaggeration, liotes or understanding, simile and metaphor, which employ comparison, and synecdoche and metonymy, in which a part of a thing stands for a whole. |  | 13 |
| 6754307592 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |  | 14 |
| 6754325003 | heroic couplet | Two consecutive lines of rhyming poetry that are written in iambic pentameter and that contain a complete thought |  | 15 |
| 6754368057 | hyperbole (overstatement) and litotes (understatement) | _____ is exaggeration for effect; ____ is understatement for effect, often used for irony. |  | 16 |
| 6754397300 | iambic pentameter | a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable. The most natural and common meter of English, it elevates speech to poetry. |  | 17 |
| 6754438729 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |  | 18 |
| 6754467812 | internal rhyme | a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. | 19 | |
| 6754498065 | metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things without using the word like or as. |  | 20 |
| 6754514086 | metaphysical conceit | Extended metaphor that makes a surprising connection between two dissimilar things. The term is commonly applied to the metaphorical language of a number of early seventeenth-century poets, particularly John Donne. Ex: stiff twin compasses//the joining together of lovers like legs of a compass. See "To His Coy Mistress" | 21 | |
| 6754591967 | meter | The number of feet within a line of traditional verse. |  | 22 |
| 6754623181 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty"). |  | 23 |
| 6754633104 | mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader |  | 24 |
| 6754644590 | octave | 8 line stanza of an Italian or Petrachan sonnet, unified by rhythm, rhyme, and topic. | 25 | |
| 6754675236 | onomatopia | A figure of speech in which words are use to imitate or suggest actual sounds or activities being described. Ex: buzz, slurp. |  | 26 |
| 6754711980 | paradox | A figure of speech or statement that seems contradictory but actually contains a hidden truth |  | 27 |
| 6754727658 | personification | A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions. Personification is used to make these abstractions, animals, or objects appear more vivid to the reader. |  | 28 |
| 6754743419 | petrarchan sonnet | (aka Italian Sonnet) sonnet containing an octave and a sestet with the rhyme scheme (ABBAABBA, CDCDCD, or ABBAABBA, CDEDCDE). There is a "volta," or "turning" of the subject matter between the octave and sestet. |  | 29 |
| 6754781536 | quatrain | A stanza or poem of four lines |  | 30 |
| 6754795624 | refrain | A regularly repeated word, line or group of lines in a poem or song, as in a ballad |  | 31 |
| 6754815511 | rhyme | Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. |  | 32 |
| 6754837529 | double rhyme or trochaic rhyme | rhyming words of two syllables in which the first syllable is accented (flower, shower) |  | 33 |
| 6754850678 | eye rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling but does not rhyme because of pronunciation. |  | 34 |
| 6754883236 | slant rhyme | rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical |  | 35 |
| 6754922469 | rhyme scheme | The regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem; indicated by using different letters of the alphabet for each new rhyme. |  | 36 |
| 6754950517 | rhythm | A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 37 | |
| 6754982334 | scan (scansion) | the process of marking beats in a poem to establish the prevailing metrical pattern. Prosody, the pronunciation of a song or poem, is necessary for scansion. | 38 | |
| 6755022459 | shakespearean or english sonnet | A poem of 14 lines, divided into three quatrains and a couplet, written in iambic pentameter, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg |  | 39 |
| 6755032900 | simile | A comparison between two unlike things using like or as to state the terms of the comparison. | 40 | |
| 6755053471 | sonnet | A closed form consisting of 14 lines of iambic pentameter. |  | 41 |
| 6755079203 | speaker | the narrator of a poem; not to be confused with the poet who wrote the poem. | 42 | |
| 6755091223 | stanza | A group of lines in a poem corresponding to paragraphs in prose; the meters and rhymes are usually repeating or systematic. |  | 43 |
| 6755118382 | symbol | An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. The glass unicorn in The Glass Menagerie. |  | 44 |
| 6755134129 | syntax | word order and sentence structure. |  | 45 |
| 6755154833 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character of a the poem. |  | 46 |
| 6755174983 | triplet or tercet | Three line stanza or is three lines of verse withing a larger unit that usually rhymes a-a-a | 47 |
