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| 3175951127 | Lyric | Subjective, reflective poetry Reg. rhyme scheme Poet's thoughts and feelings revealed directly to create a single unique impression | 0 | |
| 3175953566 | Narrative | Non-dramatic, objective verse Reg. rhyme scheme and meter Relates a story or narrative | 1 | |
| 3175955790 | Ode | Elaborate lyric verse Serious, dignified theme | 2 | |
| 3175956227 | Ballad | Any light, simply song (esp. sentimental or romantic) Having 2 or more stanzas all sung to the same melody | 3 | |
| 3175958988 | Elegy | Poem that laments death of a person, or is simply sad and thoughtful ex: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" | 4 | |
| 3175960638 | Sonnet (Shakespearean) | Rigid, 14 line verse form Variable structure and rhyme scheme 3 quatrains w/ a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter | 5 | |
| 3175963894 | Spenserian/English Sonnet | abab-bcbc-cdcd-ee | 6 | |
| 3175965193 | Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet | abbaabba (a setset) w/ varying quatrains ex: cdcdcd, cdecde, cdeced, or cdcedc | 7 | |
| 3175967531 | Blank Verse | unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter | 8 | |
| 3175968314 | Free Verse | unrhymed lines w/out regular rhythm | 9 | |
| 3175968726 | Haiku | Japanese verse 3 lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables Often depicting a delicate image | 10 | |
| 3175969371 | Limerick | Humorous, nonsense verse 5 anapestic lines rhyming aabba a-lines are trimeter b-lines are dimeter | 11 | |
| 3175970500 | Meter | Poetry's rhythm Pattern of stressed (/) and unstressed (u) syllables | 12 | |
| 3175972238 | Feet | Meter is measured in units of feet of 2 or 3 syllables | 13 | |
| 3175974062 | Catlectic Line | Line of poetry that ends in one syllable (noun: catlexis) | 14 | |
| 3175975280 | Iambic | u / | 15 | |
| 3175975990 | Trochaic | / u | 16 | |
| 3175976283 | Anapestic | u u / | 17 | |
| 3175976284 | Dactylic | / u u | 18 | |
| 3175977297 | Spondaic | / / | 19 | |
| 3175977767 | Pyrrhic | u u *Incredibly rare scheme. Usually used to mark a pair of unstressed syllables that do not fit in any other metric foot in a line of poetry. | 20 | |
| 3175979500 | One foot | Monometer | 21 | |
| 3175979760 | Two feet | Dimeter | 22 | |
| 3175979761 | Three feet | Trimeter | 23 | |
| 3175981128 | Four feet | Tetrameter | 24 | |
| 3175981129 | Five feet | Pentameter | 25 | |
| 3175982337 | Six feet | Hexameter | 26 | |
| 3175982338 | Seven feet | Heptameter | 27 | |
| 3175982770 | Eight feet | Octometer *Rare meter. | 28 | |
| 3175983134 | Scansion | Analysis of the type and number of feet in a line of poetry | 29 | |
| 3175983539 | Stanza | If paragraph : essay, then stanza : poetry It is identified by the number of lines | 30 | |
| 3175984545 | 2-line stanza | Couplet | 31 | |
| 3175984816 | 3-line stanza | Tercet | 32 | |
| 3175984827 | 4-line stanza | Quatrain | 33 | |
| 3175985218 | 5-line stanza | Cinquain | 34 | |
| 3175985552 | 6-line stanza | Sestet | 35 | |
| 3175986123 | 7-line stanza | Septet | 36 | |
| 3175986124 | 8-line stanza | Octet | 37 | |
| 3175986467 | Rhyme | Repetition of like sounds at reg. intervals in a poem | 38 | |
| 3175986815 | End rhyme | Rhyme at the end of a line | 39 | |
| 3175986816 | Internal rhyme | Rhyme w/in the line | 40 | |
| 3175987117 | Masculine rhyme | Rhyme of only the last, accented syllables ex: night (/) - bright (/); eyes (/) - skies (/) | 41 | |
| 3175988973 | Feminine rhyme | Rhyme of 2 consecutive syllables when the first syllable is accented (/|u) ex: fly(/)ing(u) - dy(/)ing(u) | 42 | |
| 3175990459 | Half rhyme (slant rhyme) | Imperfect, or near rhyme ex: sun & tune; tea & say | 43 | |
| 3175992647 | Rhyme scheme | Pattern of end rhyme in a poem where each sound is represented by a letter ex: ababcc | 44 | |
| 3175994132 | Assonance | Rep. or pattern of similar sounds, especially vowel sounds | 45 | |
| 3175994752 | Consonance | Repletion of 2 or more consonant sounds w/in a line | 46 | |
| 3175996123 | Alliteration | Rep. of 1 or more initial consonant sounds w/in a line | 47 | |
| 3175996735 | Onomatopoeia | Use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning ex: buzz, snarl, crackle | 48 | |
| 3175997587 | Euphony | Harmonious succession of words having a pleasing sound | 49 | |
| 3175998068 | Cacophony | Opposite of euphony Harsh, discordant mixture of words | 50 | |
| 3175999954 | Caesura | Natural pause or break in a line of poetry Usually near the middle of the line Can be created with a ? | 51 | |
| 3176000947 | End-stopped | Line w/ a pause at the end Period, comma, semicolon, colon, exclamation pt., question mark | 52 | |
| 3176003496 | Enjambment | Continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from 1 line of poetry to the next (Essentially, when a line isn't end-stopped.) | 53 | |
| 3176005472 | Metaphor | Direct comparison between 2 unlike things w/out using "like" or "as" | 54 | |
| 3176006466 | Simile | Direct comparison between 2 essentially unlike things using "like" or "as" | 55 | |
| 3176007213 | Conceit | Ingenious or fanciful notion or conception Usually expressed through elaborate analogy and/or pointing to striking parallels between 2 seemingly dissimilar things Could be a brief metaphor, or span the entire poem ex: "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" | 56 | |
| 3176010302 | Personification | Object and animals given human qualities | 57 | |
| 3176010693 | Apostrophe | Words that are spoken to a person who is absent or imaginary, or to an object or abstract idea ex: time, death, the world, liberty | 58 | |
| 3176136212 | Metonymy | Substitution of a word which relates to the object or person to be name, in place of the name or thing itself ex: serpent instead of a traitorous man | 59 | |
| 3176139160 | Synechdoche | A part represents the whole object or ideas | 60 | |
| 3176140128 | Hyperbole | Gross exaggeration, overstatement for effect | 61 | |
| 3176140595 | Irony | Discrepancy between expectation and reality or between words and intention | 62 | |
| 3176141942 | Symbolism | Use of 1 object to suggest another, hidden object or idea | 63 | |
| 3176152481 | Imagery | Use of words to represent things, actions, or ideas by sensory description | 64 | |
| 3176153074 | Paradox | Statement which appears self-contradictory, but underlines a basic truth | 65 | |
| 3176154626 | Oxymoron | Contradictory terms brought together to express a paradox for strong effect | 66 | |
| 3176155267 | Allusion | Reference to a fact, event, or other source outside the poem | 67 | |
| 3176156302 | Tone | Author's attitude toward his/her audience and subject | 68 | |
| 3176157091 | Mood | Emotional effects that the text creates for the reader | 69 |
