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| 9196603964 | Alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words | 0 | |
| 9196603965 | Assonance | repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 1 | |
| 9196603966 | Ballad | a narrative poem which can be sung, usually written in four-line stanzas and telling a single, tragic story | 2 | |
| 9196603967 | Blank Verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 3 | |
| 9196603968 | Consonance | repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 4 | |
| 9196603969 | Couplet | a pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. | 5 | |
| 9196603970 | Dialect | distinctive language spoken by a particular group or in a region | 6 | |
| 9196603971 | Diction | a writer's or speaker's choice of words | 7 | |
| 9196603972 | End rhyme | rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry | 8 | |
| 9196603973 | End-stopped | a line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation | 9 | |
| 9196603974 | Enjambment | a run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. | 10 | |
| 9196603975 | Extended metaphor | a metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. | 11 | |
| 9196603977 | Foot | a unit of meter; can consist of two or three syllables; lines of poetry are classified according to the number of feet in a line | 12 | |
| 9196603978 | Form | pattern or design of a poem | 13 | |
| 9196603979 | Free Verse | poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 14 | |
| 9196603980 | Heroic Couplet | rhyming pairs of verse written in iambic pentameter found in epic or long narrative English poetry. | 15 | |
| 9196603981 | Hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 16 | |
| 9196603982 | Iambic pentameter | a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable. | 17 | |
| 9196603983 | Imagery | language that appeals to the senses | 18 | |
| 9196603984 | Lyric poetry | a short poem in which a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings | 19 | |
| 9196603985 | Metaphor | a comparison between two dissimilar things. | 20 | |
| 9196603986 | Meter | a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 21 | |
| 9196603987 | Metonymy | figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something | 22 | |
| 9196603988 | Mood | the "feeling" created by the author for the reader; closely related to tone | 23 | |
| 9196603989 | Narrative poetry | a poem that tells a story | 24 | |
| 9196603990 | Ode | a lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 25 | |
| 9196603991 | Onomatopoeia | a word that imitates the sound it represents | 26 | |
| 9196603992 | Personification | a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 27 | |
| 9196603993 | Quatrain | 4 line stanza | 28 | |
| 9196603994 | Refrain | a line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. | 29 | |
| 9196603995 | Rhyme | repetition of sounds at the end of words. | 30 | |
| 9196603996 | Rhyme scheme | a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem | 31 | |
| 9196603997 | Rhythm | pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | 32 | |
| 9196603998 | Simile | a comparison between two dissimilar things using "like" or "as" | 33 | |
| 9196603999 | Slant/half/eye rhyme | a rhyming sound that is not exact. | 34 | |
| 9196604000 | Sonnet | a lyric poem of 14 lines, commonly written in iambic pentameter | 35 | |
| 9196604001 | Sound devices | elements such as rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, and onomatopoeia - gives poetry a musical quality | 36 | |
| 9196604002 | Synecdoche | using a part to refer to the whole (a type of metonymy) | 37 | |
| 9196604003 | Synesthesia | imagery that uses one type of sensory experience to describe another | 38 | |
| 9196604004 | Tone | a writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction and figurative language | 39 |
