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| 8468278191 | alliteration | repetition of similar consonant sounds | 0 | |
| 8468278192 | 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 | |
| 8468278193 | apostrophe | an address to either an absent person, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage | 2 | |
| 8468278194 | assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds | 3 | |
| 8468278195 | ballad | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. | 4 | |
| 8468278197 | cacophony | a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones | 5 | |
| 8468278198 | 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. | 6 | |
| 8468278199 | Metaphysical Conceit | *a figure of speech that employs unusual and paradoxical images in comparison *used in 17th century *an intricate and intellectual device *usually sets up an analogy between one entity's spiritual qualities and an object in the physical world and sometimes controls the whole structure of the poem. For example, in the following stanzas from "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," John Donne compares two lovers' souls to a draftsman's compass: If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. | 7 | |
| 8468278200 | The Petrarchan conceit | * especially popular with Renaissance writers of sonnets * hyperbolic comparison most often made by a suffering lover of his beautiful mistress to some physical object—e.g., a tomb, the ocean, the sun. Edmund Spenser's Epithalamion, for instance, characterizes the beloved's eyes as being "like sapphires shining bright," with her cheeks "like apples which the sun hath rudded" and her lips "like cherries charming men to bite." | 8 | |
| 8468278202 | heroic couplet | Two rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter and used widely in eighteenth-century verse. |  | 9 |
| 8468278205 | didactic poem | a poem which is intended to teach a lesson | 10 | |
| 8468278207 | elegy | a formal poem that mourns the loss of someone, a lament for the dead | 11 | |
| 8468278208 | enjambment | the continuation from one line to the next with no pause | 12 | |
| 8468278210 | extended metaphor | an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem | 13 | |
| 8468278211 | eye rhyme/slant rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from pronunciation | 14 | |
| 8468278213 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 15 | |
| 8468278214 | iambic pentameter | five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables. | 16 | |
| 8468278216 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | 17 | |
| 8468278217 | lyric poem | a short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings, usually identified by its musical/lyrical quality | 18 | |
| 8468278219 | narrative poem | a poem which tells a story or presents a narrative (epics and ballads are examples) | 19 | |
| 8468278220 | octave | an eight line stanza | 20 | |
| 8468278221 | ode | a lyric poem written in the form of an address to someone or something, often elevated in style | 21 | |
| 8468278222 | onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning | 22 | |
| 8468278223 | oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression | 23 | |
| 8468278224 | 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 | 24 | |
| 8468278226 | quatrain | four line stanza | 25 | |
| 8468278227 | 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 | 26 | |
| 8468278231 | sestet | a six line stanza | 27 | |
| 8468278233 | sonnet | a fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme | 28 | |
| 8468278238 | tercet | a stanza of three lines in which each lines ends with the same rhyme | 29 | |
| 8468278239 | terza rima | a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc | 30 | |
| 8468278242 | understatement | a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is | 31 | |
| 8469009030 | Consonance | refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase. This repetition often takes place in quick succession, such as in "pitter, patter." | 32 | |
| 8469013160 | Synecdoche | part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part. | 33 | |
| 8469019048 | Synesthesia | a technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell etc. at a given time. | 34 | |
| 8469022695 | Anaphora | the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect | 35 | |
| 8469027860 | Pastoral | shepherds and the simplicity of life in the country, where life is free from the corruption of the city | 36 |
