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| 5403389962 | slant rhyme | word sound similar, but don't rhyme exactly | 0 | |
| 5403393591 | internal rhyme | rhyme hat occurs within a line | 1 | |
| 5403396009 | feminine rhyme | rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or two unstressed syllables | 2 | |
| 5403399735 | sight rhyme | rhyme in spelling, but not in sound | 3 | |
| 5403399736 | rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhymed lines in a poem | 4 | |
| 5403416466 | consonance | the repetition of final consonant sounds after different vowel sounds | 5 | |
| 5403420819 | assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together | 6 | |
| 5403428764 | alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together | 7 | |
| 5403433611 | euphony (euphonious) | the sound of words that are pleasing to the ear | 8 | |
| 5403444137 | cacophony (cacophonous) | a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 9 | |
| 5403450593 | dissonance (dissonant) | lack of harmony, clashing sounds | 10 | |
| 5403453744 | sibilant | having a hissing sound | 11 | |
| 5403458121 | onomatopoeia | the use of a words whose sound imitates what it is naming | 12 | |
| 5403463111 | meter | rhythm and line length | 13 | |
| 5403465418 | scansion | determining rhythm and line length | 14 | |
| 5403465445 | rhythm | the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language | 15 | |
| 5403468750 | iamb (iambic) | unstressed --> stressed | 16 | |
| 5403474210 | anapest (anapestic) | two unstressed --> stressed | 17 | |
| 5403477748 | trochee (trochaic) | stressed --> unstressed | 18 | |
| 5403480119 | dactyl (dactylic) | stress --> two unstressed | 19 | |
| 5403483192 | spondee (spondaic) | two stressed | 20 | |
| 5403486416 | dimeter | two metrical feet | 21 | |
| 5403491476 | trimeter | three metrical feet | 22 | |
| 5403491477 | tetrameter | four metrical feet | 23 | |
| 5403493326 | pentameter | five metrical feet | 24 | |
| 5403495296 | heptameter | seven metrical feet | 25 | |
| 5403495297 | hexameter | six metrical feet | 26 | |
| 5403496991 | octameter | eight metrical feet | 27 | |
| 5403496992 | enjambment | sentence continuation with pause beyond the end of a line | 28 | |
| 5403504047 | end-stopped lines | a line of poetry in which the meter and the meaning conclude with the end of the line | 29 | |
| 5403507376 | couplet | two-line stanza | 30 | |
| 5403509120 | tercet | three-line stanza | 31 | |
| 5403511204 | quatrain | four-line stanza | 32 | |
| 5403515924 | cinquain | five-line stanza | 33 | |
| 5403517762 | sestet | six-line stanza | 34 | |
| 5403519824 | octave | eight-line stanza | 35 | |
| 5403519825 | speaker | the imaginary voice or persona assumed by the author of a poem | 36 | |
| 5403523846 | haiku | a brief, unrhymed, three-line poem with 5 syllables in the first and third lines and 7 in the second | 37 | |
| 5403529326 | Villanelle | a nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets each with the rhyme scheme aba, and a final quatrain with the rhyme scheme abaa | 38 | |
| 5403534891 | terza rima | an interlocking, three-line stanza form with the rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc ded and so on | 39 | |
| 5403541756 | Petrarchan/Italian sonnet | sonnet with two parts: octave (problem) with rhyme scheme abbaabba and a sestet (solution) with thyme scheme cdecde or cdcdcd | 40 | |
| 5403548433 | English sonnet | three quatrains followed by a couplet with rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg | 41 | |
| 5403552051 | sonnet sequence | a group of sonnets on a related theme | 42 | |
| 5403554861 | blank verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 43 | |
| 5403559192 | free verse | poetry that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme | 44 | |
| 5403560890 | dramatic monologue | a poem in which a character addresses one or more listeners who remains silent or whose replies are not revealed | 45 | |
| 5403564826 | lyric poem | poem that focuses on expressing emotions or thoughts, rather than on telling a story | 46 | |
| 5403567576 | narrative poem | poem that tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters | 47 | |
| 5403570565 | allegory | a story in which the characters, settings and events stand for abstract or moral concepts | 48 | |
| 5403573783 | pastoral | a type of literature that depicts country life in idyllic, idealized terms | 49 | |
| 5403581225 | apostrophe (apostrophize) | a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something non-human as if it were | 50 | |
| 5403588394 | ode | a complex, generally long lyric poem on a serious subject | 51 | |
| 5403593134 | elegy | a poem that mourns the death of someone or loss of something | 52 | |
| 5403595632 | folk/literary ballad | a song or song-like poem that tells a story written anonymously and passed orally or by a well-known author | 53 | |
| 5403598962 | poetry/verse | metrical grouping | 54 | |
| 5403600577 | understatement | a figure of speech that consists ofsaying less than what it really meant or saying something with less force than is appropriate | 55 | |
| 5403607584 | satire (satirical) | a kind of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring about reform | 56 | |
| 5403611283 | theme | the central idea or insight about human experience revealed in a work of literature | 57 | |
| 5403613191 | diction | a writer's or speaker's choice of words | 58 | |
| 5403615694 | tone | the attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character | 59 | |
| 5403619213 | mood | the mood or feeling in a literary work | 60 | |
| 5403621015 | allusion (allusive) | a reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from culture | 61 | |
| 5403623286 | connotation/denotation | all the meaning attached to word versus the literal definition of a word | 62 | |
| 5403625791 | imagery | language that appeals to the senses | 63 | |
| 5403627802 | paradox | an apparent contradiction that is actually true | 64 | |
| 5403630815 | metaphor (metaphorical) | a figure of speech that compares two seemingly unlike things without connector words | 65 | |
| 5403633375 | simile | a figure of speech making comparisons with connector words | 66 | |
| 5403635635 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which the part represents the whole | 67 | |
| 5403638013 | metonomy | a figure of speech in which something closely related to a thing or suggested by it is substituted for the thing itself | 68 | |
| 5403641789 | conceit | a fanciful and elaborate figure of speech that makes a surprising connection between two seemingly dissimilar things | 69 | |
| 5403645337 | hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect | 70 | |
| 5403650656 | oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory ideas | 71 | |
| 5403652812 | synesthesia | a term used for descriptions of one kind of sensation in terms of another | 72 |
