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| 9441598803 | alliteration | repetition of similar consonant sounds | 0 | |
| 9441598804 | 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 | |
| 9441598805 | antithesis | a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas | 2 | |
| 9441598806 | apostrophe | an address to either an absent person, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage | 3 | |
| 9441598807 | assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds | 4 | |
| 9441598808 | ballad | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. | 5 | |
| 9441598810 | cacophony | a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones | 6 | |
| 9441598811 | caesura | a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause | 7 | |
| 9441598812 | 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. | 8 | |
| 9441598813 | couplet | 2 consecutive rhyming lines | 9 | |
| 9441598814 | diction | author/poet's word choice | 10 | |
| 9441598815 | didactic poem | a poem which is intended to teach a lesson | 11 | |
| 9441598816 | dramatic poem | a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element of dramatic techniques (think theater drama) | 12 | |
| 9441598817 | elegy | a formal poem that mourns the loss of someone, a lament for the dead | 13 | |
| 9441598818 | end stopped | a line with a pause at the end | 14 | |
| 9441598819 | enjambment | the continuation from one line to the next with no pause | 15 | |
| 9441598820 | epic poem | a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero | 16 | |
| 9441598821 | extended metaphor | an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem | 17 | |
| 9441598822 | eye rhyme/slant rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from pronunciation | 18 | |
| 9441598823 | free verse | poetry which is not written in traditional meter or rhyme | 19 | |
| 9441598824 | heroic couplet | two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter (ten syllables, unstressed/stressed) | 20 | |
| 9441598825 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 21 | |
| 9441598826 | imagery | anything that appeals to at least one of the five senses, | 22 | |
| 9441598827 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | 23 | |
| 9441598828 | lyric poem | a short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings, usually identified by its musical/lyrical quality | 24 | |
| 9441598829 | metaphor | a direct comparison | 25 | |
| 9441598830 | metonymy | a figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself | 26 | |
| 9441598831 | narrative poem | a poem which tells a story or presents a narrative (epics and ballads are examples) | 27 | |
| 9441598832 | octave | an eight line stanza | 28 | |
| 9441598833 | ode | a lyric poem written in the form of an address to someone or something, often elevated in style | 29 | |
| 9441598834 | onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning | 30 | |
| 9441598835 | oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression | 31 | |
| 9441598836 | 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 | 32 | |
| 9441598837 | parallelism | similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry | 33 | |
| 9441598838 | personification | giving inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics | 34 | |
| 9441598839 | quatrain | four line stanza | 35 | |
| 9441598840 | 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 | 36 | |
| 9441598841 | rhyme | correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry | 37 | |
| 9441598842 | rhythm | the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllable | 38 | |
| 9441598843 | rhyme scheme | the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse. | 39 | |
| 9441598844 | sestet | a six line stanza | 40 | |
| 9441598845 | simile | a comparison of 2 seemingly unlike things using like, as or than | 41 | |
| 9441598846 | sonnet | a fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme | 42 | |
| 9441598847 | speaker | the voice of the poem, not necessarily the poet | 43 | |
| 9441598848 | stanza | a group of lines in a poem | 44 | |
| 9441598849 | structure | the arrangement of materials within a work | 45 | |
| 9441598850 | symbol | something that represents something else | 46 | |
| 9441598851 | synecdoche | a form of metaphor in which mentioning a part signifies the whole | 47 | |
| 9441598852 | syntax | the ordering of words into patterns or sentences, sentence structure | 48 | |
| 9441598853 | tercet | a stanza of three lines in which each lines ends with the same rhyme | 49 | |
| 9441598854 | terza rima | a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc | 50 | |
| 9441598855 | theme | main thought expressed by a work | 51 | |
| 9441598856 | tone | the author's attitude toward the subject | 52 | |
| 9441598857 | understatement | a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is | 53 | |
| 9441598858 | villanelle | a 19 line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain. Line 1 is repeated in lines 6, 12, and 18 and line 3 is repeated in lines 9, 15, 19. | 54 | |
| 9441598859 | meter | stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem | 55 |
