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| 3374261388 | half/slant rhyme | assonance or consonance used in place of a rhyme within a rhyme scheme | 0 | |
| 3374269504 | cinquain | a stanza of five lines or a poetic form which is five lines long | 1 | |
| 3374271200 | enjambment | a technique of continuing a single syntactical structure over two lines or stanzas | 2 | |
| 3374278713 | end stopped line | a line of poetry ending in punctuation | 3 | |
| 3374280527 | ode | a formal poem which celebrates or elevates a noun | 4 | |
| 3374285242 | quatrain | stanza of four lines | 5 | |
| 3374289612 | rhyme | repetition of the ending sounds of words | 6 | |
| 3374290993 | masculine rhyme | 1 syllable rhyme | 7 | |
| 3374292493 | feminine rhyme | 2+ syllable rhyme | 8 | |
| 3374293613 | consonance | repetition of consonant sounds with different corresponding vowel sounds | 9 | |
| 3374299093 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds with different corresponding consonant sounds | 10 | |
| 3374305175 | allusion | reference to a body of knowledge outside of the literature | 11 | |
| 3374306739 | free verse | a poem without a prescribes metrical or rhyme scheme | 12 | |
| 3374310690 | allegory | a story in which the characters and events are representative of human qualities, ideas, and institutions | 13 | |
| 3374313964 | everyman | stereotypical person who represents the experience of all | 14 | |
| 3374313965 | in media res | start a story with action rather than exposition or at the chronological beginning | 15 | |
| 3374320899 | conceit | a clever and surprising comparison | 16 | |
| 3374381351 | connotation | the associated meanings of a word. in poetic interpretation it can be all things nonliteral | 17 | |
| 3374398230 | stanza | a group of lines which belong together | 18 | |
| 3374405990 | controlling image | repetition to highlight a theme; motif | 19 | |
| 3374408634 | couplet | a stanza of two lines | 20 | |
| 3374409717 | dirge | funeral poem or lament | 21 | |
| 3374414035 | stress | the sounds of poetry which are said louder, longer, or higher than surrounding sounds | 22 | |
| 3374417681 | dissonance | the arrangement of words to create an unpleasant sound | 23 | |
| 3374421236 | dramatic monoglogue | a speech by one speaker in poetic form | 24 | |
| 3374427667 | elegy | poem which memorializes a specific person | 25 | |
| 3374430559 | volta | turn of topic within an Italian sonnet, occurs between octave and sestet | 26 | |
| 3374433508 | persona | the character qualities which define the speaker or narrator | 27 | |
| 3374435951 | meter | pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry | 28 | |
| 3376513375 | iamb | a foot composed of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable | 29 | |
| 3376525212 | foot | basic unit of meter. a stressed syllable with accompanying unstressed syllable | 30 | |
| 3376531098 | pentameter | a line composed of five feet | 31 | |
| 3376531962 | trochee | a foot composed of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable | 32 | |
| 3376533931 | spondee | a foot composed of two stressed syllables | 33 | |
| 3376535134 | anapest | unstressed unstressed stressed | 34 | |
| 3376536600 | dactyl | stressed unstressed unstressed | 35 | |
| 3376538007 | alliteration | repetition of beginning sounds of words | 36 | |
| 3376539523 | blank verse | unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter | 37 | |
| 3376540637 | cacaphony | the arrangement of sounds within poetry to create a harsh or jarring effect | 38 | |
| 3376545394 | caesura | a pause in meter for dramatic effect or to mimic natural speech | 39 | |
| 3376546689 | epic | a lengthy poem about the deeds of heroes | 40 | |
| 3376548620 | scansion | the act of reading lines of poetry to determine meter | 41 | |
| 3376554064 | euphony | the arrangement of sounds in poetry to create a pleasing effect | 42 | |
| 3376557354 | free verse | a poem without prescribed metrical or rhyme schemes | 43 | |
| 3376560072 | image | evocation of one or more of the five senses | 44 | |
| 3376561779 | lyric | a short poem which represents thoughtful meditation of a single speaker (first person) | 45 | |
| 3376565013 | sestet | stanza of six lines | 46 | |
| 3376567922 | octave | stanza of eight lines | 47 | |
| 3376568923 | refrain | lines which are repeated periodically within a poem | 48 | |
| 3376569892 | end rhyme | rhyming at the end of lines | 49 | |
| 3376571007 | internal rhyme | rhyming within or between the middle of lines | 50 |
