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| 13746017114 | Tone | The author's attitude toward his/her audience and subject | 0 | |
| 13746017115 | Theme | The author's major idea or meaning | 1 | |
| 13746017116 | Dramatic situation | the circumstances of the speaker | 2 | |
| 13746017117 | Lyric poem | subjective, reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme and meter which reveals the poet's thoughts and feelings to create a single, unique impression | 3 | |
| 13746017118 | Narrative poem | Nondramatic, objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter which relates a story or narrative | 4 | |
| 13746017119 | English Sonnet | Three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter Rhyming abab bcbc efef gg or abba cdcd effe gg | 5 | |
| 13746017120 | Italian sonnet | An octave and sestet, between which a break in thought occurs Rhyming scheme is abbaabba cdecde | 6 | |
| 13746017121 | Ode | elaborate lyric verse which deals seriously with a dignified theme | 7 | |
| 13746017122 | Blank verse | unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter | 8 | |
| 13746017123 | Limerick | Humorous nonsense verse in five anapestic lines rhyming aabba | 9 | |
| 13746017124 | Diction | Selection of words in oral or written discourse | 10 | |
| 13746017125 | Carpe diem | "Seize the day" mentality often conveyed in the metaphysical poems | 11 | |
| 13746017126 | Conceit | Figure of speech (not a metaphor) in which a striking association is made between two seemingly dissimilar things | 12 | |
| 13746017127 | Metaphor | A literary comparison used in a subtle sense to show the resemblance between a particular place, person, or event to a universal individual world or incident | 13 | |
| 13746017128 | Simile | Direct comparison using like or as | 14 | |
| 13746017129 | Archetypes | The use of image and objects to represent the larger and more universal experiences of life | 15 | |
| 13746017130 | Elegy | a poem of lament, meditating on the death of an individual | 16 | |
| 13746017131 | End rhyme | Rhyme occurring at the end of each line | 17 | |
| 13746017132 | Assonance | Repetition of two or more vowel sounds within a line | 18 | |
| 13746017133 | Consonance | Repetition of two or more consonant sounds within a line | 19 | |
| 13746017134 | Alliteration | The repetition of one or more initial sounds, usually consonants, within a line | 20 | |
| 13746017135 | Personification | A figure of speech in which objects and animals are given human characteristics | 21 | |
| 13746017136 | Apostrophe | an address to a person or personified object not present | 22 | |
| 13746017137 | Metonymy | the substitution of a word which relates to the object or person to be named, in place of the name itself | 23 | |
| 13746017138 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole object or idea | 24 | |
| 13746017139 | Hyperbole | Gross exaggeration for effect; overstatement | 25 | |
| 13746017140 | Litotes | a form of understatement in which the negative of an antonym is used to achieve emphasis and intensity | 26 | |
| 13746017141 | Paradox | A statement which appears self-contradictory, but underlines a basis of truth | 27 | |
| 13746017142 | Oxymoron | contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 28 | |
| 13746017143 | Allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | 29 | |
| 13746017144 | Onomatopoeia | The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning | 30 | |
| 13746017145 | Euphony | the use of compatible, harmonious sounds to produce a pleasing, melodious effect | 31 | |
| 13746017146 | Imagery | the use of words to represent things, actions, or ideas by sensory description | 32 | |
| 13746017147 | Epic simile | The brief descriptive phrase that is used like a name | 33 | |
| 13746017148 | Haiku | Three-lined Japanese verse that consists of 17 syllables | 34 | |
| 13746017149 | Internal rhyme | rhyme between a word within a line and another either at the end of the same line or within another line | 35 | |
| 13746017150 | Metaphysical | A term used to describe the works of 17th century English poets— characteristics include intellectual playfulness, argument, paradoxes, irony, conceits, etc. | 36 |
