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| 6200827390 | anapest | metrical foot; 3 syllables: Unstressed-Unstressed-Stressed ("on a boat" or "in a slump") | 0 | |
| 6200827391 | assonance | The repetition of two or more vowel sounds in successive words, which creates a kind of rhyme. May occur initially ("all awful auguries") or internally ("white lilacs"). May be used to focus attention on key words or concepts; also helps make a phrase or line more memorable | 1 | |
| 6200827392 | aubade | Poem/music appropriate to the dawn or early morning | 2 | |
| 6200827393 | blank verse | Most common/famous meter of unrhymed poetry. 5 iambic feet per line. Never rhymed | 3 | |
| 6200827394 | caesura | A pause within a line of verse. Appears near the middle of a line, but their placement may be varied to create expressive rhythmic effects. Will usually occur at a mark of punctuation, but can be present without punctuation. | 4 | |
| 6200827395 | conceit | A poetic device using elaborate comparisons, such as equating a loved one with the graces and beauties of the world. | 5 | |
| 6200827396 | consonance | Also called slant rhyme, a kind of rhyme in which the linked words share similar consonant sounds but different vowel sounds (reason and raisin, mink and monk.) | 6 | |
| 6200827397 | dactyl | A metrical foot, 3 syllables: STRESS-unstress-unstress (HIL-la-ry). It is less common to English than to classical Greek and Latin verse | 7 | |
| 6200827398 | dimeter | A verse meter consisting of two metrical feet, or two primary stresses, per line | 8 | |
| 6200827399 | elegy | A lament or a sadly meditative poem, often written on the occasion of a death or other solemn theme. Is usually a sustained poem in a formal style | 9 | |
| 6200827400 | enjambment | The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza | 10 | |
| 6200827401 | epithet | An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned (Alex the Great; or any metaphor) | 11 | |
| 6200827402 | feminine rhyme | A rhyme of two or more syllables with a stress on a syllable other than the last, as in tur-tle and fer-tile | 12 | |
| 6200827403 | foot | The unit of measurement in metrical poetry. Different meters are identified by the pattern and order of stressed and unstressed syllables in their foot, usually containing two or three syllables, with one syllable accented | 13 | |
| 6200827404 | iamb | A metrical foot, 2 syllables: unstressed-STRESS. "ca-ress" or "a cat". Most common meter in English poetry | 14 | |
| 6200827405 | litotes | Ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary--a double negative (You won't be sorry) | 15 | |
| 6200827406 | masculine rhyme | Either a rhyme of one syllable or polysyllabic words--a rhyme on the stressed final syllables | 16 | |
| 6200827407 | meter | A recurrent, regular, rhythmic pattern in verse. Results when stresses recur at fixed intervals. Basic org device of poetry. | 17 | |
| 6200827408 | metonymy | Figure of speech in which the name of a thing is substituted for that of another closely associated with it ("White House = pres.") | 18 | |
| 6200827409 | octave | A stanza of eight lines. Indicates the first eight lines of sonnets. | 19 | |
| 6200827410 | scansion | A practice used to describe rhythmic patterns in a poem by separating the metrical feet, counting the syllables, marking the accents, and indicating the pauses. Helpful in analyzing the sound of a poem and how it should be read aloud. | 20 | |
| 6200827411 | sestet | A poem or stanza of six lines. The last six lines of a sonnet. | 21 | |
| 6200827412 | speaker | voice of a poem. One should not assume that the poet is it, because the poet may be writing from a perspective entirely different from his own, even with the voice of another gender, race or species, or even of a material object | 22 | |
| 6200827413 | spondee | A metrical foot of verse containing two stressed syllables often substituted into a meter to create extra emphasis | 23 | |
| 6200827414 | synecdoche | The use of a significant part of a thing to stand for the whole of it or vice versa. (Wheels for car or rhyme for poem) | 24 | |
| 6200827415 | tercet | A group of three lines of verse, usually all ending in the same rhyme | 25 | |
| 6200827416 | tone | The attitude toward a subject conveyed in a literary work. The net result of the various elements an author brings to creating the works, feeling, and manner. | 26 | |
| 6200827417 | trochee | A metrical foot, STRESS-unstress, as in the words sum-mer and chor-us. Associated with songs, chants, magic spells. | 27 | |
| 6200827418 | villanelle | A fixed form developed by French courtly poets of the Middle Ages in imitation of Italian folk song. Consists of six rhymed stanzas in which two lines are repeated in a prescribed pattern | 28 | |
| 6200827419 | volta | A rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought and/or emotion | 29 | |
| 6200827420 | zeugma | A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (John and his license expired last week.) | 30 | |
| 6200827421 | alliteration | The repetition of two or more consonant sounds in successive words in a line of verse or prose | 31 | |
| 6200827422 | allusion | A brief (and sometimes indirect) reference in a text to a person, place, or thing- fictitious or actual | 32 | |
| 6200827423 | antithesis | Words, phrases, clauses, or sentences set in deliberate contrast to one another. Balances opposing ideas, tones, or structures, usually to heighten the effect of a statement | 33 | |
| 6200827424 | didactic poetry | Kind of poetry intended to teach the reader a moral lesson or impart a body of knowledge. Aims for education over art. | 34 | |
| 6200827425 | English sonnet | Also called Shakespearean sonnet; has a rhyme scheme organized into three quatrains with a final couplet: abab cdcd efef gg | 35 | |
| 6200827426 | extended metaphor | A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem | 36 | |
| 6200827427 | implied metaphor | A metaphor that uses neither connectives nor the verb "to be." ("John CROWED over his victory"--we don't specifically say he is a rooster; we imply it) | 37 | |
| 6200827428 | Italian sonnet | Also called Petrarchan sonnet; a sonnet with the following rhyme pattern for the first eight lines: abba abba; the final six lines may follow any rhyme pattern. Doesn't end in couplet. Shift in mood/tone after the octave. | 38 | |
| 6200827429 | terza rima | A verse form made up of three-line stanzas that are connected by an overlapping rhyme scheme (aba, bcb, cdc, ded) | 39 | |
| 6200827430 | ode | A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter. three major parts: the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode. | 40 | |
| 6200827431 | onomatopoeia | A literary device that attempts to represent a thing or action by the word that imitates the sound associated with it (crash, bang) | 41 | |
| 6200827432 | oxymoron | A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (faith unfaithful kept him falsely true) | 42 | |
| 6200827433 | paradox | A statement that at first strikes one as self-contradictory, but that on reflection reveals some deeper sense. | 43 | |
| 6200827434 | parallelism | An arrangement of words, phrases, clauses, or sentences side-by-side in a similar grammatical or structural way. Organizes ideas in a way that demonstrates their coordination to the reader | 44 | |
| 6200827435 | personification | A figure of speech in which a thing, an animal, or an abstract term is endowed with human characteristics. | 45 | |
| 6200827436 | phonetic intensives | A word whose sound, by an obscure process, to some degree suggests its meaning (short i sounds often indicate smallness: "inch," "imp,") | 46 |
