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| 6074080060 | diction | style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by writer/speaker. | 0 | |
| 6074081299 | denotation | literal or dictionary meaning of a word. | 1 | |
| 6074083473 | connotation | refers to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly. What the word brings to mind. | 2 | |
| 6074087295 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 3 | |
| 6074091325 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which a related term is substituted for the word itself. | 4 | |
| 6074094568 | euphony | The use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy loveliness in the sounds they create. | 5 | |
| 6074097055 | cacophony | Use of words with harsh, hissing, and unmelodious sounds. | 6 | |
| 6074099500 | assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants. | 7 | |
| 6074101152 | consonance | repetition of initial stressed, consonant sounds in a series of words within a phrase or verse line. | 8 | |
| 6074126262 | onomatopoeia | The sound of a word imitates its sense. | 9 | |
| 6074139251 | verse | Used to refer to poetry that has formal qualities | 10 | |
| 6074140614 | free verse | Non-metrical, non-rhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech. | 11 | |
| 6074144585 | rhythm | An audible pattern in verse established by the intervals between stressed syllables. Often a pattern. | 12 | |
| 6074148049 | stress | syllable with greater emphasis or a higher pitch than the others. | 13 | |
| 6074150089 | meter | The rhythmical pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 14 | |
| 6076058572 | foot/feet | Basic unit of measurement of accentual-syllabic meter, usually contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed. | 15 | |
| 6076061633 | iamb | metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by an accented one | 16 | |
| 6076105608 | sonnet | a 14-line poem with a variable rhyme scheme. Originated in Italy. | 17 | |
| 6076108276 | elegy | A melancholy poem that laments its subject's death but ends in consolation. | 18 | |
| 6076113420 | satire | used to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or society by using humor, ridicule, exaggeration, or irony. | 19 | |
| 6076122773 | simile | A comparison between two things using like or as | 20 | |
| 6076122775 | metaphor | a comparison not using like or as, is implied, between two different things that share common characteristics. | 21 | |
| 6076128701 | personification | a technique in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person. | 22 | |
| 6076131428 | hyperbole | gross exaggeration | 23 | |
| 6076134476 | understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 24 | |
| 6076141775 | paradox | a seemingly self-contradictory phrase or concept that illuminates a truth. | 25 | |
| 6076143874 | oxymoron | a combination of contradictory words | 26 | |
| 6076154324 | caesura | a stop or pause in a metrical line, often marked by a grammatical boundary or by punctuation. | 27 | |
| 6076164760 | alliteration | It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series. | 28 | |
| 6076181785 | rhyme | one of two or more words thus corresponding in sound | 29 | |
| 6076207415 | villanelle | A French verse form consisting of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain, with the first and third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas. | 30 | |
| 6076209488 | sestina | A complex French verse form, usually unrhymed, consisting of six stanzas of six lines each and a three-line conclusion to the poem. | 31 | |
| 6076213881 | rondeau | Originating in France, a mainly octosyllabic poem consisting of between 10 and 15 lines and three stanzas. It has only two rhymes, with the opening words used twice as an unrhyming refrain at the end of the second and third stanzas. | 32 | |
| 6076219239 | paradelle | The paradelle was a difficult, fixed form consisting of four six-line stanzas with a repetitive pattern (extreme repetition). | 33 | |
| 6076222721 | ode | A formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea. | 34 |
