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| 6585022220 | alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words | 0 | |
| 6585022221 | allusion | a brief intentional reference to a historical, mythic or literary thing | 1 | |
| 6585023787 | antithesis | balance of parallel word groups conveying opposite ideas | 2 | |
| 6585023788 | apostrophe | a direct address to an object, an animal, an idea or an absent person as if they are capable of hearing it | 3 | |
| 6585025584 | assonance | repetition of similar nearby vowel sounds | 4 | |
| 6585025585 | ballad meter | 4 lines in which the 1st and 3rd lines have have 4 stressed syllables and the 2nd and 4th lines have 3 stressed syllables. | 5 | |
| 6585027547 | blank verse | Lines that do not rhyme | 6 | |
| 6585027548 | cacophony | a harsh mixture of sounds | 7 | |
| 6585028773 | conceit | An elaborate or farfetched metaphor or simile | 8 | |
| 6585028774 | consonance | repetition of consonant sounds at the ends of words or stressed syllables in order to create near rhyme | 9 | |
| 6585029745 | couplet | a 2-lines stanza or poem | 10 | |
| 6585029746 | didactic poem | Literature with a moral dilema | 11 | |
| 6585031438 | dramatic poem | poetry that reveals character through speech and that consists entirely of dialogue | 12 | |
| 6585031439 | elegy | formal lyric poem, usually a meditation on death or some other solemn occasion | 13 | |
| 6585033425 | enjambment | poetic sentence which goes into the next line or verse with no end stop in between lines | 14 | |
| 6585033426 | extended metaphor | comparison that runs throughout a work | 15 | |
| 6585034644 | euphony | a harmonious combination of words pleasing to the ear | 16 | |
| 6585034645 | eye rhyme | when words look like they rhyme but really don't | 17 | |
| 6585034646 | free verse | Poetry without rhyme or meter | 18 | |
| 6585036151 | irony | to say one thing and mean another | 19 | |
| 6585036152 | internal rhyme | a rhyme involving a word in the middle of the phrase and at the end | 20 | |
| 6585037648 | lyric poem | short, melodic, imaginative poetry | 21 | |
| 6585037649 | meter | rhythmically arranged patterns of stressed or unstressed syllables | 22 | |
| 6585040691 | metonomy | figure of speech in which a word naming something closely associated with a word is substituted for the word itself (crown for king) | 23 | |
| 6585040692 | narrative poem | tells a story | 24 | |
| 6585041907 | octave | 8 line poem or stanza | 25 | |
| 6585041908 | parallelism | use of repeated structures in nearby phrases | 26 | |
| 6585043392 | quatrain | 4 line stanza | 27 | |
| 6585043393 | refrain | one or more lines repeated at intervals | 28 | |
| 6585043394 | satire | use of humor to expose people's stupidity | 29 | |
| 6585044937 | sestet | 6 line poem or stanza | 30 | |
| 6585044938 | sonnet | 14 line poem having a regular rhythm | 31 | |
| 6585044939 | stanza | one of the divisions of a poem. (paragraph) | 32 | |
| 6585046369 | synecdoche | form of a metaphor in which a part signifies the whole or vise versa (hand in marriage) | 33 | |
| 6585046370 | tercet | 3 line poem or stanza that rhymes | 34 | |
| 6585047847 | terza rima | an arrangement of triples (aba, cdc) | 35 | |
| 6585047848 | understatement | saying something is smaller than it really is | 36 | |
| 6585048897 | villanelle | poetic form consisting of 5 tercet's (3 lines each) followed by a quatrain (4 lines) | 37 |
