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| 2420857720 | Alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds Ex. "full fathom five thy father lies" the repeated "f" sound is alliterative | 0 | |
| 2420857721 | Anastrophe | inversion of the usual order of words | 1 | |
| 2420857722 | Antithesis | figure of speech where contrasting words or ideas are placed in close proximity | 2 | |
| 2420857723 | Assonance | the effect created when words with the same vowel sound are used in close proximity - but where the consonants in these words are different. Ex. 'or sinking as the light wind lives or dies' displays assonance due to the repeated use of the "I" vowel sound | 3 | |
| 2420857724 | Blank Verse | verse that does not employ a rhyme scheme but is not the same as free verse because this verse has a meter | 4 | |
| 2420857725 | Cacophony | harsh, unpleasant sounds within a line or lines of poetry | 5 | |
| 2420857726 | Cliché | hackneyed or timeworn expression Ex. "busy as bees" | 6 | |
| 2420857727 | Connotation | the feelings associated with a word Ex. house and home | 7 | |
| 2420857728 | Consonance | the effect created when words share the same stressed consonant sounds but where the vowels differ Ex. "brick and clock" or "black and block" | 8 | |
| 2420857729 | Couplet | a stanza comprising two lines | 9 | |
| 2420857730 | Denotation | dictionary definition of a word | 10 | |
| 2420857731 | End rhyme | a rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verses Ex. "Whose woods these are I think I know, His house is in the village, though" | 11 | |
| 2420857732 | Euphony | pleasing sound; usually of words or phrases | 12 | |
| 2420857733 | Extended metaphor | a metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of a literary work, especially a poem | 13 | |
| 2420857734 | Foot | a basic unit of a meter | 14 | |
| 2420857735 | Free verse | verse without formal meter or rhyme patterns. Free verse, instead, relies on the natural rhythms of everyday speech | 15 | |
| 2420857736 | Hyperbole | exaggeration for dramatic effect | 16 | |
| 2420857737 | Imagery | the creation of images using words | 17 | |
| 2420857738 | Internal rhyme | either where a word in the middle of a line of poetry rhymes with the word at the end of the line or where two words in midsentence rhyme | 18 | |
| 2420857739 | Line | a basic structural component of a poem. Lines can be written in free form, in syllabic form (e.g. haiku) or in metrical form | 19 | |
| 2420857740 | Metaphor | an imaginative comparison between two actions/objects etc. which is not literally applicable | 20 | |
| 2420857741 | Meter | the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry | 21 | |
| 2420857742 | Mood | the atmosphere suggested by the setting and diction of the piece, which conjures up an emotional response on the reader's part | 22 | |
| 2420857743 | Onomatopoeia | the sound of the word suggests its meaning - the pattern of sound echoes the denotation of the word | 23 | |
| 2420857744 | Personification | a figure of speech that connects ideas, abstractions, or inanimate objects with human form | 24 | |
| 2420857745 | Refrain | one or more words repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza. A refrain may have slight variations, sometimes of great significance | 25 | |
| 2420857746 | Rhyme | sound correspondence often found at the ends of lines of poetry (end rhyme) or within the line (internal rhyme). Rhyme unifies a stanza, and separates it from the next one or, if enjambment is used, it creates a sense of forward movement | 26 | |
| 2420857747 | Rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyming sounds, indicated by a letter of the alphabet for each similar sound | 27 | |
| 2420857748 | Simile | a similarity between two essentially unlike things that is directly expressed, using the words like or as | 28 | |
| 2420857749 | Sonnet | fixed form that derives from the Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet, 14 lines of iambic pentameter divided into an octave and a sestet and rhyming abbaabba cdecde. Its Elizabethan (Shakespearean) form is 14 line poem of iambic pentameter that is divided into three quatrains and a couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg | 29 | |
| 2420857750 | Stanza | groups of lines with breaks between, named for their number of lines | 30 | |
| 2420857751 | Stress | the emphasis on a word | 31 | |
| 2420857752 | Style | the writing technique of an author | 32 | |
| 2420857753 | Syllabication | looking at a poem for all of its techniques | 33 | |
| 2420857754 | Syntax | the arrangement of words within a sentence. Includes sentence length and complexity; the variety and pattern of sentence form; inversion of natural word order; unusual juxtaposition; repetition; parallelism; use of active or passive voice; level of discourse; order, including emphatic or subordinate position of elements, etc | 34 |
