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| 13456156515 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 0 | |
| 13456156516 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love (ex. in Frankenstein when Victor talks to the clouds) | 1 | |
| 13456162604 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity but start with diff consonants (adds to the rhythm, internal rhyme) | 2 | |
| 13456164733 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 3 | |
| 13456167723 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 4 | |
| 13456167724 | Epigram | short poem or statement, a witty saying expressing a single thought or observation in a clever or amusing way | 5 | |
| 13456169669 | Fixed form | A poem that may be categorized by the pattern of its lines, meter, rhythm, or stanzas (has a set way of writing it) | 6 | |
| 13456171657 | Iambic pentameter | a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable | 7 | |
| 13456175215 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 8 | |
| 13456175216 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 9 | |
| 13456175240 | Metaphysical conceit | An analogy between one entity's spiritual qualities and an object in the physical world (extended metaphor) | 10 | |
| 13456183111 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 11 | |
| 13456183112 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 12 | |
| 13456185341 | Pun | A play on words | 13 | |
| 13456185342 | Internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | 14 | |
| 13456185343 | Rhyme scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem | 15 | |
| 13456186951 | Rhythm | Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | 16 | |
| 13456188416 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 17 | |
| 13456188417 | Sestet | six line stanza | 18 | |
| 13456190871 | Speaker | the voice of the poem | 19 | |
| 13456190872 | Stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 20 | |
| 13456192313 | Structure | the arrangement or framework of a sentence, paragraph, or poem | 21 | |
| 13456194381 | Synechdoche | Uses a part to explain a whole ex. Lend me an ear. | 22 | |
| 13456196755 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 23 | |
| 13456202150 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 24 | |
| 13456203697 | Euphony | pleasant, harmonious sound | 25 | |
| 13456205842 | Foot | the rhythm of a poem based on its stressed and unstressed syllables | 26 | |
| 13456208134 | Iamb | Metric foot having two syllables (first unstressed, second stressed) | 27 | |
| 13456211908 | Direct metaphor | Directly compares two things with a verb such as "is" | 28 | |
| 13456213512 | Indirect metaphor | an implied comparison: ex: They were locked in a dark tomb of a cellar | 29 | |
| 13456217352 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 30 | |
| 13456217353 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase (ex. jumbo shrimp) | 31 | |
| 13456219652 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | 32 | |
| 13456219653 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 33 | |
| 13456416065 | Haiku | 3 unrhymed lines (5, 7, 5) usually focusing on nature | 34 | |
| 13456416066 | Sestina | a poem with six seset stanzas (6 lines each) and a final tercet (3 lines), all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing tercet | 35 | |
| 13456436551 | Sonnet | a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. | 36 | |
| 13456437799 | Villanelle | a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the end of back-to-back lines of the quatrain at the end | 37 | |
| 13456454393 | Ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas | 38 | |
| 13456454394 | Elegy | a sad or mournful poem | 39 | |
| 13456454395 | Epic | A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | 40 | |
| 13456455821 | Lyric | A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world. | 41 | |
| 13456455822 | Narrative | Pa poem that tells a story and has a plot | 42 | |
| 13456459519 | Ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 43 | |
| 13456459520 | Prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. | 44 | |
| 13459048351 | Epithet | descriptive literary device that describes a place, a thing, or a person that helps make its characteristics more prominent than they actually are | 45 | |
| 13459050324 | epitaph | phrase or statement in memory of someone who has died; inscription on a tombstone | 46 | |
| 13459052524 | epigraph | short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book to suggest a theme | 47 | |
| 13459057140 | enjambment | the running over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next without terminal punctuation; the opposite of end-stopped (less singsongy, keeps the thought going) | 48 |
