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| 7184189505 | alliteration | the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginnings of words. | 0 | |
| 7184190047 | 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 | |
| 7184194482 | antithesis | a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas; a balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness | 2 | |
| 7184196336 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which someone -- usually absent --, some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present | 3 | |
| 7184197882 | assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds | 4 | |
| 7184198118 | ballad meter | a four-line stanza rhymed "abcd" with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four | 5 | |
| 7184200854 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 6 | |
| 7184201366 | cacophony | a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones; may be an unconscious flaw in the poet's music, resulting in harshness of sound or difficulty of articulation, or it may be used consciously for effect | 7 | |
| 7184203996 | caesura | a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause | 8 | |
| 7184204907 | 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; may be a brief metaphor, but also may form the framework of an entire poem | 9 | |
| 7184206931 | consonance | the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words | 10 | |
| 7184207607 | couplet | a two-line stanza, usually with end-rhymes the same | 11 | |
| 7184208189 | devices of sound | the techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry; among them are rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia; used to create a general effect of pleasant or of discordant sound, to imitate another sound, or to reflect a meaning | 12 | |
| 7184210199 | diction | the use of words in a literary work; may be described as formal, informal, or slang | 13 | |
| 7184212579 | didactic poem | a poem which is intended primarily to teach a lesson | 14 | |
| 7184214008 | dramatic poem | a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element or elements of dramatic techniques as a means of achieving poetic ends, such as dramatic monologue | 15 | |
| 7184216986 | elegy | a sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet's meditations upon death or another solemn theme | 16 | |
| 7184217762 | end-stopped | a line with a pause at the end such as a period, comma, colon, semicolon, exclamation point, or question mark | 17 | |
| 7184218731 | enjambment | the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next | 18 | |
| 7184219332 | extended metaphor | an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem | 19 | |
| 7184220475 | euphony | a style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear predominate; opposite of cacophony | 20 | |
| 7184221343 | eye rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from the pronunciation | 21 | |
| 7184222142 | feminine rhyme | a rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed, as waken and forsaken and audition and rendition; sometimes called double rhyme | 22 | |
| 7184223597 | figurative language | writing that uses figures of speech such as metaphors, irony, and similes; uses words to mean something other than their literal meaning | 23 | |
| 7184224595 | free verse | poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical | 24 | |
| 7184225374 | heroic couplet | two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit | 25 | |
| 7184226503 | hyperbole | a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration; may be used for either serious or comic effect | 26 | |
| 7184228002 | imagery | the images of a literary work; the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work; visual, auditory, or tactile images evoked by the words of a literary work or the images that figurative language evokes | 27 | |
| 7184230179 | irony | the contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning | 28 | |
| 7184231693 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | 29 | |
| 7184232783 | lyric poem | any poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings; sonnets and odes or examples | 30 | |
| 7184233575 | masculine rhyme | rhyme that falls on the stressed and concluding syllables of the rhyme-words | 31 | |
| 7184234596 | metaphor | a figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like as, like, or than | 32 | |
| 7184235323 | meter | the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry; emphasizes the musical quality of the language and often relates directly to the subject matter of the poem; each is known as a foot | 33 | |
| 7184238022 | 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 | |
| 7184239828 | mixed metaphors | the mingling of one metaphor with another immediately following with which the first is incongruous | 35 | |
| 7184240243 | narrative poem | a non-dramatic poem which tells a story or presents a narrative, whether simple or complex, long or short; epics and ballads are examples | 36 | |
| 7184241116 | octave | an eight-line stanza; commonly refers to the first division of an Italian sonnet | 37 | |
| 7184242654 | onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound suggest their meaning | 38 | |
| 7184243235 | 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 | |
| 7184244486 | 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 | |
| 7184254679 | parallelism | a similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry; characteristic of Asian poetry, notably present in Psalms | 41 | |
| 7184256340 | 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 | |
| 7184259635 | personification | a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics | 43 | |
| 7184260798 | poetic foot | a group of syllables in verse usually consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables associated with it; most common are iambic, trochaic, anapestic, dactylic, pyrrhic, and spondaic | 44 | |
| 7184263969 | pun | a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings; can have serious as well as humorous uses | 45 | |
| 7184264807 | quatrain | a four-line stanza with any combination of rhymes | 46 | |
| 7184265596 | 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 | |
| 7184266419 | rhyme | close similarity or identity of sound between accented syllables occupying corresponding positions in two or more lines of verse; vowels in the accented syllables must be preceded by different consonants | 48 | |
| 7184268695 | rhyme royal | a seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc | 49 | |
| 7184269471 | rhythm | the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables; its presence lends both pleasure and heightened emotional response to the listener or reader | 50 | |
| 7184271011 | 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 | 51 | |
| 7184272201 | satire | writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule; usually comedy that exposes errors with an eye to correct vice and folly | 52 | |
| 7184273307 | scansion | a system for describing the meter of a poem by identifying the number and the type(s) of feet per line; most common types include monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, and octameter | 53 | |
| 7184275203 | sestet | a six-line stanza; most commonly refers to the second division of an Italian sonnet | 54 | |
| 7184276093 | simile | a directly expressed comparison; a figure of speech comparing two object, usually with like, as, or than | 55 | |
| 7184277350 | sonnet | normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem; conventional Italian or Petrarchan type is rhymed abba, abba, cde, cde; English or Shakespearean is rhymed abab, cdcd, efef, gg | 56 | |
| 7184280491 | stanza | usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme | 57 | |
| 7184283062 | strategy | the management of language for a specific effect; the planned placing of elements to achieve an effect | 58 | |
| 7184290256 | 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; most common units are the line and stanza | 59 | |
| 7184291957 | style | the mode of expression in language; the characteristic manner of expression of an author | 60 | |
| 7184294854 | symbol | something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else | 61 | |
| 7184295592 | synecdoche | a form of metaphor which in mentioning a part signifies the whole | 62 | |
| 7184296013 | syntax | the ordering of words into patterns or sentences | 63 | |
| 7184296298 | tercet | a stanza of three lines in which each line ends with the same rhyme | 64 | |
| 7184296848 | terza rima | a three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc. | 65 | |
| 7184297402 | theme | the main thought expressed by a work; the abstract concept which is made concrete through its representation in person, action, and image in the work | 66 | |
| 7184298418 | tone | the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses meaning; described by adjectives | 67 | |
| 7184299383 | understatement | deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is; the opposite of hyperbole | 68 | |
| 7184301991 | villanelle | a nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain; uses only two rhymes which are repeated as follows: aba, aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa; line 1 is repeated entirely to form lines 6, 12, and 18, and line 3 is repeated entirely to form lines 9, 15, and 19; thus, eight of the nineteen lines are refrain | 69 |
