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| 9214533972 | Lyric | a short poem expressing thoughts or feelings of a speaker | 0 | |
| 9214537301 | Narrative Poem | a poem that tells a story | 1 | |
| 9214537302 | Ballad | Traditionally a song that tells a story | 2 | |
| 9214543910 | Dramatic Monologue | a poem written as a speech made by a character at some decisive moment | 3 | |
| 9214549023 | Didactic Poetry | a kind of poetry intended to teach the reader a moral lesson | 4 | |
| 9214569375 | Closed Form | a generic term that describes poetry and some preexisting pattern of meter, rhyme, line, or stanza | 5 | |
| 9214700226 | Open Form | verse that has no set formal scheme-no meter | 6 | |
| 9214712341 | Free Verse | poetry that organizes its lines without meter | 7 | |
| 9236034834 | Tone | The attitude toward a subject conveyed in a literary work. | 8 | |
| 9236811760 | Speaker | The narrative voice in a poem that speaks of his or her. situation or feelings. | 9 | |
| 9236866643 | Persona | Latin for 'mask'. A fictitious character created by an author to be the speaker of a poem, story or novel. | 10 | |
| 9236868856 | Tension | A balance maintained in a poem between opposing forces or elements; a controlled dramatic or dynamic quality. | 11 | |
| 9236871431 | Conflict | A struggle between two opposing forces. | 12 | |
| 9236875604 | Theme | The central thought of a poem. A poem can sometimes contain multiple themes. | 13 | |
| 9236880005 | Ambiguity | A word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning. | 14 | |
| 9236883822 | Irony | A literary device in which a discrepancy of meaning is masked beneath the surface of the language. When a writer says one thing but means something quite the opposite. | 15 | |
| 9236888086 | Verbal Irony | When the discrepancy is contained in words | 16 | |
| 9236888701 | Dramatic Irony | A form of irony that is expressed through a work's structure: an audience's awareness of the situation in which a work's characters exist differs substantially from that of the characters', and the words and actions of the characters therefore take on a different—often contradictory—meaning for the audience than they have for the work's characters. | 17 | |
| 9236897433 | Allusion | A brief reference in a text to a person, place, or thing (fictitious or real). | 18 | |
| 9236904088 | Paradox | A statement that at first strikes one as self-contradictory, but that on reflection reveals some deeper sense. | 19 | |
| 9236914036 | Diction | Word choice or vocabulary. | 20 | |
| 9236916634 | Concrete Diction | Involves a highly specific word choice in the naming of something or someone | 21 | |
| 9236921691 | Abstract Diction | Contains words that express more general ideas or concepts. | 22 | |
| 9236922772 | Nonsense Verse | A form of light verse, usually for children, depicting imaginative characters in amusing situations of fantasy, whimsical in tone and with a rhythmic appeal, often employing fanciful phrases and meaningless made-up words. | 23 | |
| 9236930313 | Portmanteau Word | An artificial word that combines parts of other words to express some combination of their qualities. | 24 | |
| 9236942491 | Denotation | The literal, dictionary meaning of a word. | 25 | |
| 9236945706 | Connotation | An association or additional meaning that a word, image, or phrase may carry, apart from its literal denotation or dictionary definition. | 26 | |
| 9236949469 | Etymology | The origin of a word and the historical development of its meaning. | 27 | |
| 9236956010 | Colloquial language | The casual or informal but correct language of ordinary native speakers, which may include contractions, slang, and shifts in grammar, vocabulary and diction. | 28 | |
| 9236962836 | Dialect | A particular variety of language spoken by an identifiable regional group or social class of persons. | 29 | |
| 9236966142 | Archaic language | These words are no longer in everyday use or have lost a particular meaning in current usage but are sometimes used to impart an old-fashioned flavour to historical novels, or in standard conversation or writing just for a humorous effect. | 30 | |
| 9236970940 | Pun | A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. | 31 |
