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| 6369037128 | lyric | a short poem that expresses the personal feelings and thoughts of a single person | 0 | |
| 6369038651 | sonnet | a poem of 14 lines written in iambic pentameter that follows one of several rhyme schemes | 1 | |
| 6369040926 | ode | a poem that is long and serious in nature written to a set structure | 2 | |
| 6369042407 | elegy | a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem | 3 | |
| 6369044274 | meter | the measured arrangement of words in poetry by syllables; the number of feet in a line | 4 | |
| 6369047055 | rhythm | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line | 5 | |
| 6369048822 | scansion | the analysis of a poem's meter | 6 | |
| 6369050430 | prosody | the study of rhyme and meter | 7 | |
| 6369052366 | free verse | poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that do not have a fixed metrical pattern | 8 | |
| 6369054952 | blank verse | poetry written in iambic pentameter; the iambic pentameter often resembles the rhythms of ordinary speech | 9 | |
| 6369058712 | couplet | a pair of lines in poetry that are the same length and usually rhyme and form a complete thought | 10 | |
| 6369061208 | heroic couplet | two consecutive lines of rhymed verse written in iambic pentameter with eloquent diction | 11 | |
| 6369064681 | quatrain | a stanza or poem of 4 lines - lines 2 and 4 must rhyme, lines 1 and 3 may or may not rhyme, rhyming lines should have a similar number of syllables | 12 | |
| 6369069414 | persona | the narrator or speaker of the poem | 13 | |
| 6369070870 | caesura | a grammatical pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of a line | 14 | |
| 6369072946 | enjambment | carrying the sense of one line of verse over to the next line without a pause | 15 | |
| 6369075541 | assonance | vowel rhyme; rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of rhyming words | 16 | |
| 6369079283 | conceit | when an image or metaphor likens one thing to something else that is seemingly very different | 17 | |
| 6369081632 | apostrophe | a figure of speech where someone, usually absent or dead, an object, or a nonexistent person is directly addressed as through present or real | 18 | |
| 6369086587 | anaphora | the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences | 19 | |
| 6369089325 | alliteration | the repetition of a consonant sound to create rhythm and memory | 20 | |
| 6369091724 | allusion | a brief reference to a historical or literary person, place, object, or event | 21 | |
| 6369095017 | tone | the attitude of the author towards his/her subject or audience | 22 | |
| 6369097932 | metonymy | the substitution of an object closely associated with a word for the word itself | 23 | |
| 6369101268 | synecdoche | when a part represents the whole | 24 |
