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| 5996579602 | Alliteration | the repetition of identical to similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginnings of words. | 0 | |
| 5996586804 | 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 | |
| 5996626739 | Antithesis | A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas. This is a balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness. | 2 | |
| 5996659565 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone (usually, but not always absent), some abstract quality, or an nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present. | 3 | |
| 5996665992 | Assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. | 4 | |
| 5996673863 | Ballad meter | a four-line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four. | 5 | |
| 5996680752 | Blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter. This is the meter of most of Shakespeare's plays as well as that of Milton's Paradise Lost. | 6 | |
| 5996687448 | Cacophony | a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones. It may be unconscious flaw in the poet's music, resulting in harshness of sound or difficulty or articulation, or it may be used consciously for effect. | 7 | |
| 5996695398 | Caesura | a pause, usually near the middle of a line or verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause. | 8 | |
| 5997018164 | Conceit | an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy, and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things. This may be a brief metaphor, but it also may form the framework of an entire poem. | 9 | |
| 5997031208 | Consonance | the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words. The term usually refers to words in which the ending consonants are the same but he vowels that precede them are different. | 10 | |
| 5997040127 | Couplet | a two-line stanza, usually with end-rhymes the same. | 11 | |
| 5997043510 | Devices of sound | the techniques of deploying the sounds of words. (rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia). | 12 | |
| 5997090675 | Diction | The use of words in a literary work. This may be described as formal, informal, colloquial, slang. | 13 | |
| 5997074681 | Didactic poem | a poem which is intended primarily to teach a lesson. | 14 | |
| 5997084617 | Dramatic poem | a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element or elements of dramatic techniques as a means of achieving poetic ends. (like a monologue). | 15 | |
| 5997099861 | Elegy | a sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet's meditations upon death or another solemn theme. | 16 | |
| 5997107070 | End-stopped | A line with a pause at the end. Lines that end with a period, a comma, a colon, a semicolon, an exclamation point, or a question mark. | 17 | |
| 5997119465 | Enjambment | The continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next. | 18 | |
| 5997130165 | Extended metaphor | an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem. | 19 | |
| 6194948700 | Euphony | A style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear predominate. Its opposite is cacophony. | 20 | |
| 6194956214 | Eye rhyme | Rhyme that appears correct from spelling but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from the pronunciation. | 21 | |
| 6194971923 | Feminine rhyme | A rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed, as "waken" and "forsaken". Sometimes called double rhyme. | 22 | |
| 6194983551 | Figurative rhyme | Writing that uses figures of speech (as opposed to literal language or that which is actual or specifically denoted) such metaphor, irony, and simile. Uses words to mean something other than their literal meaning. | 23 | |
| 6195000106 | Free verse | Poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical. | 24 | |
| 6195006772 | Heroic couplet | Two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two line unit. | 25 | |
| 6195028184 | Hyperbole | A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration. It may be used for either serious of comic effect. | 26 | |
| 6195033602 | Imagery | The images of literary work, the sensory details of a work. | 27 | |
| 6195040091 | Irony | The contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning. Verbal _____ is a figure of speech in which the actual intent is expressed in words which carry the opposite meaning. This is likely to be confused with sarcasm in that it is usually lighter, less harsh in its wording though in effect probably more cutting because of its indirectness. | 28 | |
| 6195066327 | Internal rhyme | Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end. | 29 | |
| 6195074689 | Lyric poem | Any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings. Love and lyrics are common, but these have also be written on subjects as different as religion and reading. | 30 | |
| 6195132619 | Masculine rhyme | Rhyme that falls on the stressed and concluding syllables of the rhyme-words. | 31 | |
| 6195140927 | Metaphor | A figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like "as" or "like" | 32 | |
| 6195159421 | Meter | The repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry. This of a poem emphasizes the musical quality of the language and often relates to the subject matter of the poem. | 33 | |
| 6195172582 | 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. | 34 | |
| 6195183842 | Mixed metaphors | The mingling of one metaphor with another immediately following with which the first is incongruous. | 35 | |
| 6195196320 | Narrative poem | a non-dramatic poem which tells a story or presents a narrative, whether simple or complex, long or short. Epics and ballad are examples. | 36 | |
| 6195204414 | Octave | An eight line stanza. This refers to the first division of an Italian sonnet. | 37 | |
| 6195209589 | Onomatopoeia | The use of words whose sounds suggests their meaning | 38 | |
| 6195213304 | Oxymoron | A form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression. This combination usually serves the purpose of shocking the reader into awareness. | 39 | |
| 6648436101 | 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. | 40 | |
| 6648447316 | Parallelism | a similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry. Characteristic of Asian poetry, being notably present in the Psalms, and it seems to be the controlling principle of the poetry of Walt Whitman. | 41 | |
| 6648461077 | Paraphrase | a restatement of an idea in such a way as to retain the meaning while changing the diction and form. Often an amplification of the original for the purpose of clarity. | 42 | |
| 6648468922 | Personification | a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics | 43 | |
| 6648473929 | Poetic foot | a group of syllables in verse usually consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables associated with it. | 44 | |
| 6648480465 | Pun | a play on words are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings. | 45 | |
| 6648491610 | Quatrain | a four-line stanza with any combination of rhymes. | 46 | |
| 6648495076 | 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. | 47 | |
| 6648501388 | Rhyme royal | a seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc | 48 | |
| 6648517659 | Rhythm | the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables. Lends both pleasure and heightened emotional response to the listener or reader | 49 | |
| 6648527407 | Sarcasm | a type of irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it. Its purpose is to injure or to hurt. | 50 | |
| 6648532457 | Satire | writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule. Comedy that exposes errors with an eye to correct vice and folly. | 51 | |
| 6648541269 | Scansion | A system of describing the meter of a poem and by identifying the number and the types of feet per line | 52 | |
| 6648592406 | Sestet | A six line stanza. Second division of an Italian sonnet. | 53 | |
| 6648597837 | Simile | a directly expressed comparison using like or as. | 54 | |
| 6648602793 | Sonnet | normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem. | 55 | |
| 6648606601 | Stanza | usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme. | 56 | |
| 6648608685 | Strategy | The management of language for a specific effect. The planned placing of elements to achieve an effect. | 57 | |
| 6648614936 | Structure | the arrangement of materials within a work; the relationship of the parts of a work to the whole; the logical divisions of a work. | 58 | |
| 6648652284 | Style | the mode of expression in language; the characteristic manner of expression of an author. Diction, syntax, figurative language, imagery, selection of detail, sound effects, and tone. | 59 | |
| 6648659778 | Symbol | something that is simultaneously itself and a sign for something else. | 60 | |
| 6648664309 | Synecdoche | a form of metaphor which in mentioning a part signifies the whole. | 61 | |
| 6648683748 | Syntax | the ordering of words into patterns or sentences. | 62 | |
| 6648686413 | Tercet | A stanza of three lines in which each line ends with the same rhyme. | 63 | |
| 6648691071 | Terza rima | a three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc | 64 | |
| 6648696660 | Theme | the main thought expressed by a work. An abstract concept which is made concrete through its representation in person, action, and image in the work. | 65 | |
| 6648703332 | Tone | the manner in which an author expresses his or his attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses meaning. | 66 | |
| 6648709045 | Understatement | the opposite of hyperbole. It is a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is. | 67 | |
| 6648710720 | Villanelle | A nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain. Uses only 2 rhymes aba, aba, aba aba, aba, abaa | 68 |
