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| 3425984623 | verse | 1. A line of metrical writing 2. A stanza 3. Any composition written in meter | 0 | |
| 3425984624 | lyric poetry | 1. A short poem (usually no more than 50-60 lines, and often only a dozen lines long) written in a repeating stanzaic form, often designed to be set to music. The lyric usually does not have a plot (i.e. it might not tell a complete story), but it rather expresses the feelings, pereptions, and thoughts of a single poetic speaker (not necessarily the poet) in an intensely personal, emotional, or subjective manner 2. Any poem having the form and musical quality of a song 3. As an adjective, lyric can also be applied to any prose or verse characterized by direct, spontaneous outpouring of intense feeling | 1 | |
| 3425985433 | narrative poetry | A verse involving events, characters, and what the characters say and do. The story or account itself. | 2 | |
| 3425986645 | dramatic monologue | A poem in which a poetic speaker addresses either the reader or an internal listener at length. It is similar to the soliloquy in theatre, in that both often involve the revelation of the innermost thoughts and feelings of the speaker. | 3 | |
| 3425988457 | speaker, persona, or voice | the character the author has created in order to portray the poem rather than the author himself. | 4 | |
| 3425989672 | verbal irony | When a speaker says one thing but means something sharply different. Often this sort of irony is plainly sarcastic in the eyes of the reader but the characters listening in the story may not realize the speaker's sarcasm as quickly as the readers do. | 5 | |
| 3425989673 | dramatic irony | a situation in which the audience knows something about present or future circumstances that the characters don't know. In that situation character expects the opposite of what the reader knows that fate holds in store or the character anticipates a particular outcome. | 6 | |
| 3425991599 | situational irony | accidental events occur that seem oddly appropriate such as the poetic justice of a pickpocked getting his own pocket picked. However both the victim and the audience are aware of the situation. | 7 | |
| 3425991600 | free verse | characterized by nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech. Does not adhere to a metrical plan in their composition. | 8 | |
| 3426054688 | diction | a speaker's word choice | 9 | |
| 3426054689 | concrete diction | What the speaker's words mean on a literal level. Focus on what can be immediately perceived with the senses. | 10 | |
| 3426055776 | abstract diction | what the poems say about concepts or ideas that are beyond our physical senses | 11 | |
| 3426055777 | colloquial english | casual conversation, slang, dialect | 12 | |
| 3426060194 | general english | educated but not pretentious word choice | 13 | |
| 3426060195 | formal english | the kind of words you use in an academic writing in order to show off how smart you are | 14 | |
| 3426060196 | denotation | literal dictionary definition | 15 | |
| 3426060197 | connotation | overtones or suggestions of additional meanings | 16 | |
| 3426060198 | meter | Basic rhythm structure in a verse or a line of a verse. There are many different types. | 17 | |
| 3426061257 | scansion | the process of marking the stresses in a poem, and working out the meter from the distribution of stresses. | 18 | |
| 3426061258 | foot | In literary circles, this term refers to the most basic unit of a poem's meter. A combination of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 19 | |
| 3426061259 | iambic (iambs) | an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (u/) | 20 | |
| 3426061260 | anapestic (anapests) | two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable (uu/) | 21 | |
| 3426062803 | trochaic (trochees) | a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable (/u) | 22 | |
| 3426062804 | dactylic (dactyls) | one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables (/uu) | 23 | |
| 3426063681 | spondic (spondee) | two stressed syllables in a foot (//) | 24 | |
| 3426063682 | pyrrhic | two unstressed syllables in a foot (uu) | 25 | |
| 3426063683 | monometer | one foot per line of poetry | 26 | |
| 3426064505 | dimeter | two feet per line of poetry | 27 | |
| 3426064506 | trimeter | three feet per line of poetry | 28 | |
| 3426064507 | tetrameter | four feet per line of poetry | 29 | |
| 3426065361 | pentameter | five feet per line of poetry | 30 | |
| 3426065362 | hexameter | six feet per line of poetry | 31 | |
| 3426065363 | heptameter | seven feet per line of poetry | 32 | |
| 3426066756 | octameter | eight feet per line of poetry | 33 |
