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| 6074736433 | Doggerel | a term used for lines whose subject matter is trite and whose rhythm and sounds are monotonously heavy-handed | 0 | |
| 6074736434 | Paraphrase | a prose restatement of the central ideas of a poem in your own language | 1 | |
| 6074736435 | Speaker | the voice used by the author in the poem-often created by the author's actual self | 2 | |
| 6074736436 | Verse | a term used for lines composed in a measured rhythmical pattern | 3 | |
| 6074736437 | Anagrams | words made from the letters of other words, such as read and dare | 4 | |
| 6074736438 | Theme | a central idea or meaning | 5 | |
| 6074736439 | Lyric | a brief poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker | 6 | |
| 6074736440 | Narrative Poem | a poem that tells a story | 7 | |
| 6074736441 | Diction | choice of words | 8 | |
| 6074736442 | Poetic Diction | the use of elevated language rather than ordinary language | 9 | |
| 6074736443 | Formal Diction | consists of a dignified, impersonal, and elevated use of language | 10 | |
| 6074736444 | Middle Diction | less formal level of diction | 11 | |
| 6074736445 | Informal Diction | colloquial, conversational manner | 12 | |
| 6074736446 | Dialect | form of informal diction | 13 | |
| 6074736447 | Jargon | a category of language defined by a trade or profession | 14 | |
| 6074736448 | Denotation | the literal, dictionary meaning of a word | 15 | |
| 6074736449 | Connotation | associations and implications that go beyond a word's literal meanings | 16 | |
| 6074736450 | Persona | a speaker created by the poet | 17 | |
| 6074736451 | Ambiguity | allows for two or more simultaneous interpretations of a word, phrase, action, or situation | 18 | |
| 6074736452 | Syntax | the ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns | 19 | |
| 6074736453 | Tone | the writer's attitude toward the subject, the mood created by all of the elements in the poem | 20 | |
| 6074736454 | Dramatic Monologue | a type of poem in which a character -the speaker- addresses a silent audience in such a way as to reveal unintentional some aspect of his or her temperament or personality | 21 | |
| 6074736455 | Image | language that addresses the senses | 22 | |
| 6074736456 | Figures of Speech | broadly defined as a way of saying one thing in terms of something else | 23 | |
| 6074736457 | Simile | makes an explicit comparison between two things by using words such as like, as, than, appears, or seems | 24 | |
| 6074736458 | Metaphor | makes a comparison between two unlike things (no like or as) | 25 | |
| 6074736459 | Implied Metaphor | does not explicitly identify the comparison-hints at it | 26 | |
| 6074736460 | Extended Metaphor | extended comparisons in which part or all of the poem consists of a series of related metaphors (controlling metaphors) | 27 | |
| 6074736461 | Pun | a play on words that relies on a word having more than one meaning or sounding like another word | 28 | |
| 6074736462 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which part of something is used to signify the whole | 29 | |
| 6074736463 | Metonymy | something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it | 30 | |
| 6074736464 | Personification | the attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman things | 31 | |
| 6074736465 | Apostrophe | an address to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend | 32 | |
| 6074736466 | Hyperbole | an overstatement. adds emphasis without intending to be literally true | 33 | |
| 6074736467 | Understatement | says less than is intended | 34 | |
| 6074736468 | Paradox | a statement that initially appears to be self-contradictory, but that, on closer inspection, turns out to make sense | 35 | |
| 6074736469 | Oxymoron | a condensed form of paradox in which two contradictory words are used together | 36 | |
| 6074736470 | Symbol | something that represents something else | 37 | |
| 6074736471 | Conventional Symbol | something that is recognized by many people to represent certain ideas | 38 | |
| 6074736472 | Literary Symbol (Contextual) | something that goes beyond traditional, public meanings | 39 | |
| 6074736473 | Allegory | a narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning because it's events, actions, characters, settings, and objects represent specific abstractions or ideas | 40 | |
| 6074736474 | Didactic Poetry | designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religious lesson | 41 | |
| 6074736475 | Situational Irony | what happens is entirely different from what is expected | 42 | |
| 6074736476 | Verbal Irony | saying something different from what is meant | 43 | |
| 6074736477 | Satire | an example of the literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in an effort to expose or correct it | 44 | |
| 6074736478 | Dramatic Irony | used when a writer allows a reader to know more about a situation than a character does | 45 | |
| 6074736479 | Cosmic Irony | when a writer uses God, destiny, or fate to dash the hopes and expectations of a character or humankind in general | 46 | |
| 6074736480 | Ballad | a form of poetry that alternates lines of four and three beats, often in quatrains, rhymed abab, and often telling a story | 47 | |
| 6074736481 | Literary Ballad | a more complex and sophisticated 19th century reflection of the original ballad traditions that developed in the 15th century and earlier | 48 | |
| 6074736482 | Onomatopoeia | the use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes | 49 | |
| 6074736483 | Alliteration | the depiction of the same consonant sounds at the beginnings of nearby words ("luscious lemons") | 50 | |
| 6074736484 | Assonance | the repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby words ("asleep under a tree") | 51 | |
| 6074736485 | Euphony | lines that are musically pleasant to the ear and smooth | 52 | |
| 6074736486 | Cacophony | lines that are discordant and difficult to pronounce ("never my numb plunker fumbles") | 53 | |
| 6074736487 | Rhyme | consists of two or more words or phrases that repeat the same sounds | 54 | |
| 6074736488 | Eye Rhyme | rhyme in which the spellings are similar, but the pronunciations are different (brow and blow) | 55 | |
| 6074736489 | End Rhyme | rhyme that comes at the end of lines | 56 | |
| 6074736490 | Internal Rhyme | places at least one of the rhymed words within the line ("dividing and gliding and sliding") | 57 | |
| 6074736491 | Masculine Rhyme | the rhyming of single-syllable words | 58 | |
| 6074736492 | Feminine Rhyme | consists of a rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more rhymed unstressed syllables (butter, clutter; gratitude, attitude) | 59 | |
| 6074736493 | Exact Rhymes | share the same stressed vowel sounds as well as any sounds that follow the vowel | 60 | |
| 6074736494 | Slant Rhyme (Off Rhyme/Near Rhyme/Approximate Rhyme) | the sounds are almost but not exactly alike | 61 | |
| 6074736495 | Consonance | an identical consonant sound preceded by a different vowel sound (home and same; worth and breath) | 62 | |
| 6074736496 | Stress (accent) | places more emphasis on one syllable than on another | 63 | |
| 6074736497 | Meter | the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse | 64 | |
| 6074736498 | Prosody | all the metrical elements in a poem | 65 | |
| 6074736499 | Scansion | consists of measuring the stresses in a line to determine its metrical pattern | 66 | |
| 6074736500 | Foot | the metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured | 67 | |
| 6074736501 | Rising Meters | move from unstressed to stressed sounds | 68 | |
| 6074736502 | Falling Meters | move from stressed to unstressed sounds | 69 | |
| 6074736503 | Line | measured by the number of feet it contains ("If she | would write | a note | " contains 3 feet) | 70 | |
| 6074736504 | Iambic Pentameter | contains five feet | 71 | |
| 6074736505 | Blank Verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 72 | |
| 6074736506 | spondee | a two-syllable foot in which both syllables are stressed | 73 | |
| 6074736507 | Masculine Ending | a line that ends with a stressed syllable | 74 | |
| 6074736508 | Feminine Ending | a line that ends with an extra unstressed syllable | 75 | |
| 6074736509 | Caesura | a pause within a line (indicated with "||") | 76 | |
| 6074736510 | End-stopped Line | when a line has a pause at its end | 77 | |
| 6074736511 | Run-on Line | a line that ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning | 78 | |
| 6074736512 | Enjambment | running over from one line to another | 79 | |
| 6074736513 | Form | overall structure or shape of a poem | 80 | |
| 6074736514 | Fixed Form | a poem that can be categorized by the patterns of its lines, meter, rhymes, and stanzas | 81 | |
| 6074736515 | Free Verse (Open Form) | poems that do not conform to established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza | 82 | |
| 6074736516 | Stanza | consists of grouping of lines, set off by a space, that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme | 83 | |
| 6074736517 | Rhyme Scheme | the pattern of end rhymes | 84 | |
| 6074736518 | Couplet | consists of two lines that usually rhyme and have the same meter | 85 | |
| 6074736519 | Heroic Couplet | consists of rhymes in iambic pentameter | 86 | |
| 6074736520 | Tercet | a three-line stanza | 87 | |
| 6074736521 | Triplet | when all three lines in a tercet rhyme | 88 | |
| 6074736522 | Terza Rima | consists of an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme: aba, bcb, cdc, ded, and so on | 89 | |
| 6074736523 | Quatrain | a four-line stanza | 90 | |
| 6074736524 | Ballad Stanza | consists of alternating eight- and six-syllable lines | 91 | |
| 6074736525 | Sonnet | consists of 14 lines, usually written in iambic pentameter | 92 | |
| 6074736526 | Italian Sonnet (Petrarchan Sonnet) | divides into two parts. The first 8 lines (octave) typically rhyme abbaabba. The final 6 (sestet) can rhyme cdecde, cdcdcd, and cdccdc (these are most common) | 93 | |
| 6074736527 | English Sonnet (Shakespearean Sonnet) | organized into 3 quatrains and a couplet, and typically rhyme abab cdcd efef gg | 94 | |
| 6074736528 | Villanelle | a fixed form consisting of 19 lines of any length divided into 6 stanzas: five tercets and a concluding quatrain | 95 | |
| 6074736529 | Sestina | consists of 39 lines of any length divided into 6 six-line stanzas and a three-line concluding stanza called an envoy. usually does not rhyme | 96 | |
| 6074736530 | Limerick | always light and numerous. consists of 5 predominantly anapestic lines rhyming aabba | 97 | |
| 6074736531 | Envoy | three-line concluding stanza | 98 | |
| 6074736532 | Haiku | usually described as consisting of 17 syllables organized into three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables | 99 | |
| 6074736533 | Elegy | used to describe a lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead | 100 | |
| 6074736534 | Ode | characterized by a serious topic and formal tone, but no prescribed formal pattern describes all odes | 101 | |
| 6074736535 | Parody | a humorous imitation of another, usually serious, work | 102 | |
| 6074736536 | Picture Poems | poems with lines arranged into particular shapes | 103 | |
| 6074736537 | Epic Poem | a long, narrative poem that is usually about heroic deeds and events that are significant to the culture of the poet. | 104 | |
| 6074736538 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 105 | |
| 6074736539 | Controlling Metaphor | a symbolic story, where the whole poem may be a metaphor for something else; motif | 106 | |
| 6074736540 | Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. | 107 | |
| 6074736541 | Rhythm | a literary device which demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables particularly in verse form. | 108 | |
| 6074736542 | Iamb | a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable. | 109 | |
| 6074736543 | Trochee | a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable. | 110 | |
| 6074736544 | Sestet | a poem or stanza of six lines | 111 | |
| 6074736545 | Octave | a poem or stanza of eight lines | 112 | |
| 6074736546 | Epigram | a short poem, especially a satirical one, having a witty or ingenious ending. | 113 | |
| 6074736547 | Free Verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter. | 114 |
