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| 5988440253 | Lyric | Once referred to poetry meant to be sung as music, but now describes any short, concentrated poem expressing personal feelings | 0 | |
| 5988440254 | Narrative | Poetry that tells a story | 1 | |
| 5988440255 | Epic | Lengthy narrative poems | 2 | |
| 5988440256 | Ode | Usually a long, complex lyric expressing profound emotion. Its expression and style are usually more elaborate than other lyrics. | 3 | |
| 5988440257 | Elegy | A long, ceremonious lyric poem of mourning. | 4 | |
| 5988440258 | Idyll | Poetry that depicts either a peaceful, idealized country or a long poem telling a story about heroes of a bygone age. | 5 | |
| 5988440259 | Pastoral | A poem that depicts rural life in a peaceful, idealized way. | 6 | |
| 5988440260 | Carpe Diem | Latin for "sieze the day," a philosophy that proposes making the most of each moment because life is short and unpredictable. | 7 | |
| 5988440261 | Light Verse | Poetry which entertains with humor or wit. Some light verse--particularly satire--has an underlying serious intent. | 8 | |
| 5988440262 | Otta Rima | A poem written in 8 line octave. Each line is 10 or 11 syllables, following a set rhyme scheme. | 9 | |
| 5988440263 | Terza Rima | A type of poetry consisting of 10 or 11 syllables arranged in three-line tercets. | 10 | |
| 5988440264 | Villanelle | A 19 line poem consisting of 5 tercets and a final quatrain on 2 rhymes. The 1st and 3rd lines of the first tercet repeat alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain. | 11 | |
| 5988440265 | Quatrain | A stanza or poem consisting of four lines. Lines 2 and 4 must rhyme having a similar number of syllables. | 12 | |
| 5988440266 | Syllabic verse | Poetry in which the number of syllables per line is fixed (like a haiku) | 13 | |
| 5988440267 | Dramatic Monologue | A literary work which consists of a revealing one-way conversation by a character or persona, usually directed to an imaginary audience. It typically involves a critical moment of a specific situation, with the speaker's words unintentionally providing a revelation of his character | 14 | |
| 5988440268 | Sonnet | 14 line poem usually in iambic pentameter and following a specific rhyme scheme | 15 | |
| 5988440269 | English or Shakespearean sonnet | A 14 line poem consisting of 3 quatrains of ABAB CDCD EFEF followed by a couplet, GG. Usually in iambic pentameter. | 16 | |
| 5988440270 | Italian or Petrarchan sonnet | A poem consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern ABBABBA followed by 6 lines with a rhyme pattern of CDECDE or CDCDCD. | 17 | |
| 5988440271 | Tone | The poet's or the speaker's attitude towards his subject | 18 | |
| 5988440272 | Wit | A form of intellectual humor, a characteristic of Metaphysical poetry. | 19 | |
| 5988440273 | Connotation | The associations and implications of a word, rather than its literal meaning | 20 | |
| 5988440274 | Diction | The dictionary definition of a word | 21 | |
| 5988440275 | Allusion | A brief reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object. | 22 | |
| 5988440276 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for effect or humor | 23 | |
| 5988440277 | metaphor | Direct or implied comparison between two dissimilar objects. | 24 | |
| 5988440278 | direct metaphor | A direct comparison | 25 | |
| 5988440279 | indirect metaphor | An indirect comparison such as "he wolfed down his food" | 26 | |
| 5988440280 | extended metaphor | A metaphor, often the entire poem. | 27 | |
| 5988440281 | conceit | An exaggerated comparison popularized in the 17th century by the metaphysical poets, of whom George Herbert and John Donne are the primary representatives. | 28 | |
| 5988440282 | metonymy | A device in which an object or characteristic associated with the subject is used in place of the subject. | 29 | |
| 5988440283 | Paradox | A statement which contains seemingly contradictory elements or appears contrary to common sense, yet can be seen as perhaps, or indeed, true when viewed from another angle. | 30 | |
| 5988440284 | symbol | Something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance; especially a visible sign of something invisible. | 31 | |
| 5988440285 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech by which a part stands for whole or the whole for a part | 32 | |
| 5988440286 | Synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another. Ex: describing sound using color (blue note), taste in terms of touch (velvety chocolate), etc. | 33 | |
| 5988440287 | pun | Words or expressions which contain two or more meanings simultaneously, helpful in a genre which requires language to condense meanings in a compact space. | 34 | |
| 5988440288 | irony | contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality | 35 | |
| 5988440289 | Objective correlative | T.S. Eliot's term for a pattern of objects, actions or events, or a situation which can effectively awaken in the reader an emotional response without being a direct statement of that subjective emotion. | 36 | |
| 5988440290 | alliteration | repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginnings of words close together | 37 | |
| 5988440291 | assonance | repetition of the same vowel sound in words close together | 38 | |
| 5988440292 | consonance | repetition of the same consonant sounds in words close together | 39 | |
| 5988440293 | end rhyme | rhyme occurring at the ends of lines | 40 | |
| 5988440294 | internal rhyme | rhyme between a word within a line and another either at the end of the same line or within another line | 41 | |
| 5988440295 | slant-rhyme | words which do not rhyme exactly, but end with similar sounds | 42 | |
| 5988440296 | onomatopoeia | the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it | 43 | |
| 5988440297 | repetition | repeating word, phrase, or other element for emphasis | 44 | |
| 5988440298 | anaphora | repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect | 45 | |
| 5988440299 | antithesis | the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or phrases | 46 | |
| 5988440300 | polysyndeton | repetition of conjunctions in close succession | 47 | |
| 5988440301 | parallelism | repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure or that state a similar idea | 48 | |
| 5988440302 | end-stopped lines | a line of poetry marked by a logical or rhetorical pause at the end | 49 | |
| 5988440303 | enjambment | the running over of a sentence from line or stanza into another so that closely related words fall in different lines | 50 | |
| 5988440304 | refrain | a regularly recurring phrase or verse especially at the end of each stanza or division of a poem or song | 51 | |
| 5988440305 | stanza | A division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme. | 52 | |
| 5988440306 | Blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 53 | |
| 5988440307 | couplet | two lines rhyming usually at the end of the stanza | 54 | |
| 5988440308 | iambic pentameter | poetic meter consisting of five repetitions of an aim--an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable--used by poets because it most closely approximates the normal rhythms of English speech | 55 | |
| 5988440309 | syllabic verse | poetry in which the number of syllables per line is fixed | 56 | |
| 5988440310 | free verse | poetry free of a strict rhythmical structure or set rhyme scheme. | 57 | |
| 5988440311 | scanning or scansion | analyzing the metrical patterns of a poem | 58 | |
| 5988440312 | meter | a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. | 59 | |
| 5988440313 | dimeter | 2 feet per line | 60 | |
| 5988440314 | trimeter | 3 feet per line | 61 | |
| 5988440315 | tetrameter | 4 feet per line | 62 | |
| 5988440316 | pentameter | 5 feet per line | 63 | |
| 5988440317 | hexameter | 6 feet per line | 64 | |
| 5988440318 | heptameter | 7 feet per line | 65 | |
| 5988440319 | foot | units of accented and unaccented syllables, arranged in units called feet. Meter is measured in units of feet. | 66 | |
| 5988440320 | iamb | an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (the WRINK-led SEA be-NEATH him CRAWLS) | 67 | |
| 5988440321 | trochee | a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable (DOUB-le, DOUB-le, TOIL and TROUB-le) | 68 | |
| 5988440322 | anapest | two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable (the As-SYR-ian came DOWN like the WOLF on the FOLD) | 69 | |
| 5988440323 | dactyl | One stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables (you MUR-der-ing MIN-i-sters) | 70 | |
| 5988440324 | spondee | Two stressed syllables. This foot is used for emphasis. (come UP here, BARD, BARD/ Come UP here, SOUL, SOUL) | 71 |
