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| 13004056948 | Alliteration | the repetition of word with the same consonants within a line of poetry | 0 | |
| 13004056949 | Allusion | a reference within one literary work to another literary work | 1 | |
| 13004056950 | Anapest | a metrical foot with two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. | 2 | |
| 13004056951 | Apostrophe | lines in a poem addressed addressed to some non-human entity as if it were human | 3 | |
| 13004056952 | Assonance | the repetition of word with the same vowel sounds within a line of poetry | 4 | |
| 13004056953 | Aubade | a poem written on the occasion of daybreak, often from the point of view of lovers parting | 5 | |
| 13004056954 | Audience | the character within a poem who is listening to the speaker, or the readership for which a poet writes a poem | 6 | |
| 13004056955 | Ballad | a lyric poem that tells a story in quatrains | 7 | |
| 13004056956 | Ballad Stanza | a quatrain in which the first and third lines are in iambic tetrameter, and the second and fourth lines, which rhyme, are iambic trimeter | 8 | |
| 13004056957 | Blank Verse | unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter | 9 | |
| 13004056958 | Canon | a list of literary works approved by some body of evaluators; this process may be formal or informal and debatable | 10 | |
| 13004056959 | Carpe Diem | Literally, "seize the day." it is the philosophy of life that values taking pleasure in the present for fear of not being able to in the future. Usually, the pleasures are sexual. | 11 | |
| 13004056960 | Citation | A formal way of directing your readers to a source to which you reference your own paper | 12 | |
| 13004056961 | Cliché | A metaphor that is so worn out that it no longer conjures any figurative image in the minds of readers | 13 | |
| 13004056962 | Close reading | careful, attentive reading of a work with an eye not just to what happens, but to the literary elements, like metaphor, meter, assonance, etc. that create meaning in a work | 14 | |
| 13004056963 | Colloquial | Informal or regional use of language | 15 | |
| 13004056964 | Conceit | A metaphorical comparison that extends over several lines. usually this comparison is surprising or even jarring | 16 | |
| 13004056965 | Confessional Poetry | A type of poetry that takes as its subject the emotional life, especially the anxieties or neuroses, of the speaker. It is often considered autobiographical; readers often assume the poet is confessing his or her secret, intimate thoughts | 17 | |
| 13004056966 | Connotation | The nonliteral, often emotional associations attached to a word | 18 | |
| 13004056967 | Convention | the use of some motif, situation, character, form, etc., that has become customary within a genre | 19 | |
| 13004056968 | Conventional Symbol | an object that carries symbolic meaning only within a particular culture | 20 | |
| 13004056969 | Couplet | Two consecutive rhymed lines of poetry | 21 | |
| 13004056970 | Dactyl | a metrical foot with one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables | 22 | |
| 13004056971 | Denotation | the literal or dictionary meaning of a word | 23 | |
| 13004056972 | Diction | the type of words a writer or speaker uses. The style of words that educated people use is often called "high" while "low" may refer to the language of less educated people | 24 | |
| 13004056973 | Dramatic Monologue | A lyric poem that sounds like a speech lifted from a play; the speaker is talking to someone in the midst of a scene that might be dramatized on stage. Usually, these tell stories and are often ironic | 25 | |
| 13004056974 | Elegy | A melancholic lyric poem meditating on something, usually a death | 26 | |
| 13004056975 | End rhyme | rhymes at the end of lines in poetry | 27 | |
| 13004056976 | English Sonnet | a lyric poem of fourteen lines divided by its rhyme scheme into three quatrains and a concluding couplet | 28 | |
| 13004056977 | Enjambment | the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction beyond the end of a line of verse | 29 | |
| 13004056978 | Epic | A long, complex and serious poem narrating the exploits of a hero. These usually express a society's values and cultural preoccupations, often through the retelling of an origin story or a historical moment of great national importance. | 30 | |
| 13004056979 | Epitaph | A poem, usually short, meant to be inscribed on a tombstone | 31 | |
| 13004056980 | Explication | an interpretation that closely discusses a poem's figurative and literal meaning, often line by line | 32 | |
| 13004056981 | Extended Metaphor | a metaphoric comparison that extends beyond a single line of poetry | 33 | |
| 13004056982 | Feminine Rhyme | end rhymes of two syllables with the accent on the second-to-last syllables | 34 | |
| 13004056983 | Figurative Language | expressions that communicate beyond their literal meanings and therefore must be interpreted in some other way | 35 | |
| 13004056984 | Figurative Level | meaning generated by a poem's figurative language | 36 | |
| 13004056985 | Figure of speech | expressions that communicate beyond their literal meanings and therefore must be interpreted in some other way | 37 | |
| 13004056986 | Foot | the measurement of poetry's rhythms based on stressed and unstressed syllables. This is the basic unit. Each consists of two or three syllables | 38 | |
| 13004056987 | Free verse | Poetry with no metrical pattern or set line lengths and usually no rhymes; its rhythms are often established with grammatical repetitions and parrallelisms | 39 | |
| 13004056988 | Genre | A grouping of literary works usually based on similar formal structures; works within this will usually share conventions | 40 | |
| 13004056989 | Hyperbole | a figure of speech in which what is literally said overstates the meaning | 41 | |
| 13004056990 | Iamb | a metrical foot with one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable | 42 | |
| 13004056991 | Image | A sensation--visual, tactile, auditory, olfactory, or gustatory--conveyed by language. This is anything you hear, feel, smell, or taste in a poem | 43 | |
| 13004056992 | Internal Rhyme | rhyme between a word within a line and another word at the end of the same line or within another line | 44 | |
| 13004056993 | Irony | A figure of speech in which what is literally said is different from and often opposite of what is meant. It is also used to describe poems in which the poet disapproves of or disagrees with the speaker | 45 | |
| 13004056994 | Italian Sonnet | a lyric poem of fourteen lines divided by its rhyme scheme into an octet and a sestet | 46 | |
| 13004056995 | Literary Symbol | an object that carries symbolic meaning only within the context of a particular literary work | 47 | |
| 13004056996 | Litotes | A figure of speech in which what is literally said understates the meaning | 48 | |
| 13004056997 | Lyric Poem | a relatively short poem. Every poem in the poem's book we have is this. | 49 | |
| 13004056998 | Metaphor | A figure of speech that compares one thing to another; the expression will literally make no sense; its meaning can be understood only by applying one term's connotations to the other | 50 | |
| 13004056999 | Meter | the measurement of poetry's rhythms based on stressed and unstressed syllables. The basic unit is a foot. This measurement also describes line lengths. The rhythm of a line can be described by combining these two connotations | 51 | |
| 13004057000 | Motif | A recurring feature of a literary work or genre, usually an image, idea, situation, or theme | 52 | |
| 13004057001 | Natural Symbol | an object that carries symbolic meaning that is suggested by its own nature and, therefore, is the same in various cultures | 53 | |
| 13004057002 | Occasional Poem | a poem written to commemorate or interpret a particular public event | 54 | |
| 13004057003 | Octave | an eight-line stanza | 55 | |
| 13004057004 | Ode | A usually long lyric poem, often irregular in form, for an occasion of public or private reflection in which personal emotion and general meditation are united | 56 | |
| 13004057005 | Off Rhyme | rhyming in which the sounds are similar but not exact | 57 | |
| 13004057006 | Onomatopoeia | A word or phrase that mimics the thing it literally means | 58 | |
| 13004057007 | Oxymoron | A paradoxical phrase linking two contrary words | 59 | |
| 13004057008 | Paradox | A figure of speech in which the literal meaning seems to contradict itself but really expresses a higher truth | 60 | |
| 13004057009 | Paraphrase | A translation of a poem or a part of a poem into the style of everyday, common prose | 61 | |
| 13004057010 | Parody | A work that makes fun of the conventions of a particular genre, usually by exaggerating them | 62 | |
| 13004057011 | Pastoral | A poem that uses shepherds as characters; or the use of pleasant images from the country | 63 | |
| 13004057012 | Personification | A type of metaphor in which some nonhuman object or abstraction is compared to a human being | 64 | |
| 13004057013 | Petrarchan sonnet | a lyric poem of fourteen lines divided by its rhyme scheme into an octet and a sestet | 65 | |
| 13004057014 | Prose poem | a short piece of writing in paragraph form rather than in meter, but which in other ways resembles a poem. The subject matter and treatment are like poetry and the sentences create a strong sense of rhythm | 66 | |
| 13004057015 | Prosody | the study of meter | 67 | |
| 13004057016 | Quantrain | A four line stanza | 68 | |
| 13004057017 | Rhetorical Situation | the fictional scene that encompasses a poem: who the speaker is; who the audience is; the setting surrounding them; the occasion that has prompted the speaker to speak | 69 | |
| 13004057018 | Rhyme | The repetition of sounds | 70 | |
| 13004057019 | Rhyme Scheme | A notation used to describe the rhymes of the poem | 71 | |
| 13004057020 | Rhythm | The musical quality of a poem usually established by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | 72 | |
| 13004057021 | Satire | A literary work that tries to correct social institutions or human behavior by making fun of them | 73 | |
| 13004057022 | Scansion | a description of a poem's meter that marks feet and stressed and unstressed syllables | 74 | |
| 13004057023 | Sestet | a six line stanza | 75 | |
| 13004057024 | Sestina | A poem of six sestets plus a concluding tercet. The end words of each line in the first stanza are used as end words (in varying order) in the following five stanzas. The concluding tercet uses the end words in the middle and at the end of each line. | 76 | |
| 13004057025 | Shakespearean sonnet | a lyric poem of fourteen lines divided by its rhyme scheme into three quatrains and a concluding couplet | 77 | |
| 13004057026 | Simile | A metaphor that introduces its comparison with the word "like" or "as" | 78 | |
| 13004057027 | Sonnet | A fourteen line poem, usually in iambic pentameter. Often they are written in cycles or sequences, of many poems, and they typically explore the theme of love. The two main types are English and Italian | 79 | |
| 13004057028 | Speaker | the person who is uttering the words in a poem. Unless you have evidence to the contrary, you should not assume this is the poet. It is a fictional persona. | 80 | |
| 13004057029 | Spondee | A metrical foot with two consecutive stressed syllables | 81 | |
| 13004057030 | Stanza | A division of lines within a poem. Usually, it is indicated by white space on a page. Also often indicated by repeated patterns in a rhyme scheme | 82 | |
| 13004057031 | Subgenre | a genre within a genre | 83 | |
| 13004057032 | Symbol | An object that carries meaning on the literal level and also stands for something else on a figurative level. Sometimes, this represents another object, but more often it represents an abstraction | 84 | |
| 13004057033 | Symbolic action | that which happens to the symbols in a poem: do they change? are they acted upon? | 85 | |
| 13004057034 | Syntax | The order of words to form phrases and sentences. In poetry this is often more complex than in everyday language and occasionally, it violates standard english. such violations are called "poetic license" | 86 | |
| 13004057035 | Tercet | a three line stanza | 87 | |
| 13004057036 | Theme | The abstract subject of a poem; what the poem is about | 88 | |
| 13004057037 | Thesis Statement | A sentence or small group of sentences that summarize what a critic is trying to persuade his or her readers to believe about a poem. It must be a matter of dispute rather than a fact, and it is the main point of a critical essay. | 89 | |
| 13004057038 | Tone | The verbal indication of a speaker's (and a poet's) attitude toward the poem's subject | 90 | |
| 13004057039 | Trochee | A metrical foot with one stressed syllable followed by an unstresed syllable | 91 | |
| 13004057040 | Universal symbol | symbols that seem to carry the same meanings in many cultures | 92 | |
| 13004057041 | Villane | A poem of five tercets and a quantrain using just two rhymes. The first and third line of the first tercet are repeated throughout the other stanzas | 93 | |
| 13004057042 | Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 94 | |
| 13004057043 | Synesthesia | when one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another, or when an artist describes a sensation as such | 95 | |
| 13004057044 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword). | 96 | |
| 13004057045 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 97 | |
| 13004057046 | Octameter | a poem with eight feet per line | 98 | |
| 13004057047 | Euphony | pleasant sound | 99 | |
| 13004057048 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 100 | |
| 13004057049 | Caesura | a break between words within a metrical foot, usually in the middle of the line | 101 | |
| 13004057050 | Symbolist Poetry | Poetry that emphasizes suggestion and inward experience instead of explicit description. | 102 | |
| 13004057051 | Beat Poet | American poets who were free thinkers and broke conventions | 103 | |
| 13004057052 | Persona | Greek for "mask." The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience. | 104 | |
| 13004057053 | Situational Irony | An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected | 105 | |
| 13004057054 | Sarcasm | witty language used to convey insults or scorn through irony | 106 | |
| 13004057055 | Heroic Couplet | two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the couplet | 107 | |
| 13004057056 | Refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. | 108 | |
| 13004057057 | Cinquain | a five line stanza | 109 | |
| 13004057058 | Heptastich | a seven line stanza | 110 |
