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| 6310426677 | Allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal some hidden meaning- typically a moral or political one. | 0 | |
| 6310439909 | Heroic Couplet | A pair of rhyming iambic pentameters much used by Chaucer + poets of the 17-18 centuries. | 1 | |
| 6310447173 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of inharmonous words. | 2 | |
| 6310456817 | Imagery | Descriptive or figurative language, especially in literary works (visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, kinesthetic, and organic). | 3 | |
| 6310473961 | Meter | The basic rhythmic structure of a verse of lines in a verse, like Shakespears use of iambic pentameters in sonnets. | 4 | |
| 6310486919 | Elegy | A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. | 5 | |
| 6310491661 | Alliteration | The occurence of the same letter or a sound at the beginning of adjacent of closely connected words. | 6 | |
| 6310501948 | Caesure | A pause near the middle of a line. Any interruption or break. | 7 | |
| 6310506971 | Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applied. | 8 | |
| 6310517980 | End-Stop Line | When a line of poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation/punctuation mark. Each line is its own phrase/unit of syntax. So when read, you will naturally stop. | 9 | |
| 6310537486 | Personification | The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristic to something nonhuman or the rep. of an abstract quality in human form. | 10 | |
| 6310548499 | Diction | The choice of words and phrases in a speech or writing. | 11 | |
| 6310552830 | Allusion | A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political signifigance (NOT DETAILED) | 12 | |
| 6310607911 | Complaint | Also called a plaint; a formerly popular variety of poem that laments or protests unrequited love or of personal misfortune, misery, or injustice. | 13 | |
| 6310619603 | Enjamblement | The running on of a sense or concept from one couplet or line to the next w/out a major pause or syntactical break. | 14 | |
| 6310629883 | Figurative Language | Using figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive, and impactful (metaphors, similies, and allusions go beyond the literal meanings of the words to give the readers new insights). | 15 | |
| 6310647447 | Onometopoeia | A word which imitates the natural sound of a thing (a sound effect that mimics the described thing - expressive and interestinG. | 16 | |
| 6310665965 | Tercet | A set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme w/ an adjacent tercet. | 17 | |
| 6310711271 | Analogy | A comparison between 2 things, typically for the purpose of explination or clarification. | 18 | |
| 6310720130 | Conceit | A fanciful expression in writing or speech; elaborate metaphor making unusual/unlikely comparisons between 2 things that often extends throught a piece. | 19 | |
| 6310744371 | Epic | A long poem, typically derived from ancient/oral tradition, narrating the deeds + adventures of heroic or legendary figures or history or narrative. | 20 | |
| 6310757108 | Iambic Pentameter | A line of verse w/five metrical feet, each consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. | 21 | |
| 6310780847 | Inversion | A rhetorical device in which the writers play with the normal position of words, phrases, and clauses in order to create differently arraged sentences, but which still suggest a similar meaning. | 22 | |
| 6310797313 | Synecdoche | A figure of comparison in which a word standing for part of something is used for the whole of that thing of vice versa. | 23 | |
| 6310852274 | Satire | The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, in politics or other contemporary topical issues. | 24 | |
| 6310862806 | Couplet | Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme that form a unit. | 25 | |
| 6310867052 | Euphony | The quality of being pleasing to the ear, through a hermnious combination of words. | 26 | |
| 6310872405 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, abstract idea, or a thing. | 27 | |
| 6310879189 | Dramatic Irony | The full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience although unknown to the character. | 28 | |
| 6310891111 | Situational Irony | A state of affairs or an event that seem deliberately contracdory to what one expects and if often amusing as a result. | 29 | |
| 6310913744 | Verbal Irony | Using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or empathatic effect... To express meaning. | 30 | |
| 6310922275 | Mood | Envokes certian feeling or vibes in readers through words and description; the "atmosphere" of a literary piece. | 31 | |
| 6310932215 | Hyperbole | An obvious/intentional exaggeration; an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally. | 32 | |
| 6310937814 | Simile | A figure of speech in which 2 unlike things are explicitly compared. | 33 | |
| 6310946454 | Blank Verse | a verse without whyme, espically that which uses iambic pentameter. | 34 | |
| 6310954157 | Lyric Poetry | A type of emotional, song like poetry; distinguished from dramatic and narrative poetry. | 35 | |
| 6310960614 | Juxtaposition | A literary technique in which 2 or more ideas, places, characters are placed side by side for the purpose of developing comparisions and contrasts. | 36 | |
| 6310972147 | Refrain | A verse or phrase that is repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem. | 37 | |
| 6310977429 | Assonance | Repetition of the sound of a vowel or a diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables close enough the each other to be distinguishable. | 38 | |
| 6310988707 | Consonance | The reccurence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity. | 39 | |
| 6310995077 | Free Verse | When a poem doesn't conform to he limitations of regular meter or rhyme w/ fixed forms. | 40 | |
| 6311001508 | Speaker | The narrative voice in a poem that speaks his or her feelings in the situation. | 41 | |
| 6311010965 | Point Of View | A particular attitude or way of considering a matter. | 42 | |
| 6311013790 | Octet | A verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentamater or of hendcasyllables. | 43 | |
| 6311021424 | Ballad | Poem narrating a story alternating between iambic tetermeter and iambic trimeter, often to music; four line stanzas. | 44 | |
| 6311030552 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word may suggest. | 45 | |
| 6311035626 | Connotation | An idea or feeling that a word envokes in adition to its literal/actual meaning. | 46 | |
| 6311043595 | Sestet | The last six lines of a sonnet. | 47 | |
| 6311046465 | Narrative Poetry | Poetry that tells a story, often making use of character and narrative voices, ususally in metered verse. Has story elements to it. | 48 | |
| 6311056511 | Quatrain | A stanza of four lines, many having alternating rhymes. | 49 | |
| 6311059175 | Anthropomorphism | Asserting human traits, ambitions, emotions, or entire behavior to animals, non-human beings, natural phenemoa or objects (more developed than personification). | 50 | |
| 6311070646 | Metonymy | Using the name of an object/concept in place of a different word or concept it relates to (what the thing represents). | 51 | |
| 6311078462 | Repitition | Repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas. Emphasises a feeling, idea, creates rhythm, and/or develops a sense of urgency. | 52 | |
| 6311088016 | Symbol | Use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from the literal meaning. | 53 |
