3369558455 | Alliteration | Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse | 0 | |
3369558456 | Allusion | A reference to a well known person, place or thing | 1 | |
3369558457 | Anapest | Unstressed,unstressed, stressed syllable | 2 | |
3369558458 | Apostrophe | Address to an absent or imaginary person | 3 | |
3369558459 | Ambiguity | Having more than one meaning | 4 | |
3369558460 | Cacophony | Loud harsh sounds | 5 | |
3369558461 | Caesura | A break or pause in the middle of a line | 6 | |
3369558462 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds | 7 | |
3369558463 | Couplet | A stanza consisting of two successive lines so verse usually rhymed | 8 | |
3369558464 | Dactyl | A metrical hint with stressed -unstressed-unstressed syllables | 9 | |
3369558465 | Diction | Word choice,Phrasing | 10 | |
3369558466 | Dissonance | Racket noise, describes sounds that are not pleasant | 11 | |
3369558467 | Enjambment | When a phrase , clause or sentence in Aline of poetry doesn't finish at the line break spills over into the next line | 12 | |
3369558468 | Euphony | Agreeable, pleasing harmonious sounds | 13 | |
3369558469 | Free verse | Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern | 14 | |
3369558470 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration | 15 | |
3369558471 | Iamb | A part if a line that's made up of a short syllable followed by a long syllable | 16 | |
3369558472 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration | 17 | |
3369558473 | Internal rhyme | A rhyme between words in the same time | 18 | |
3369558474 | Litotes | Understatement for rhetorical effect | 19 | |
3369558475 | Metaphor | A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that does not literally denote in order to suggest its similarity | 20 | |
3369558476 | Octave | A musical interval of eight notes | 21 | |
3369558477 | Onomatopeia | Using words to imitate sounds they denote a | 22 | |
3369558478 | Paradox | A statement that contradicts itself | 23 | |
3369558479 | Personification | The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas | 24 | |
3369558480 | Sestet | A rhythmic group of six lines | 25 | |
3369558481 | Simile | A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of difference usually formed with "like or as" | 26 | |
3369558482 | Spondee | A metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables | 27 | |
3369558483 | Trochee | A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables | 28 |
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