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| 6676003162 | accent | a syllable given more prominence in pronunciation than its neighbors is said to be accented | 0 | |
| 6676188530 | allegory | a narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one | 1 | |
| 6676013553 | alliteration | the repetition at closed intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, map - moon, kill - code - preach - approve). Important words and accented syllables beginning with vowels may also be said to alliterate with each other inasmuch as they all have the same lack of an initial consonant sound (for example, "Inebriate of Air - am I") | 2 | |
| 6676034001 | allusion | a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in literature or history | 3 | |
| 6676192923 | anapest | a metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable (for example, un-der-stand) | 4 | |
| 6676199323 | anapest meter | a meter in which a majority of the feet are anapests | 5 | |
| 6676037220 | anaphora | repetition of an opening word or phrase in a series of lines | 6 | |
| 6676040518 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply | 7 | |
| 6676046129 | approximate rhyme (also known as imperfect rhyme, near rhyme, slant rhyme, or oblique rhyme) | a term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes (for example, love and prove) | 8 | |
| 6676059356 | assonance | the repetition at close intervals of the vowel sound of accented syllables or important words (for example, hat - ran - amber, vein - made) | 9 | |
| 6676070564 | aubade | a poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn | 10 | |
| 6676205121 | ballad | a fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form. Examples: "Ballad of Birmingham" or "Edward" or "La Belle Dame san Merci" | 11 | |
| 6676074938 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 12 | |
| 6676079618 | cacophony | a harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds | 13 | |
| 6676083809 | caesura | a speech pause occurirng within a line | 14 | |
| 6676220695 | connotation | what a word suggests beyond its basic definition; a word's overtones of meaning | 15 | |
| 6676225431 | consonance | the repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, book - plaque - thicker) | 16 | |
| 6676233992 | continuous form | that form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning | 17 | |
| 6676240226 | couplet | two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme | 18 | |
| 6676245060 | dactyl | a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables (for example, mer-ri-ly) | 19 | |
| 6676251621 | dactyl meter | a meter in which a majority of the feet are dactyles | 20 | |
| 6676258403 | denotation | the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word | 21 | |
| 6676096161 | didactic poetry | poetry having as a primary purpose to teach or preach | 22 | |
| 6676267529 | dimeter | a metrical line containing two feet | 23 | |
| 6676270647 | double rhyme | a rhyme in which the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of the words involved (for example, politely - rightly - spritely); one form of feminine rhyme | 24 | |
| 6676282968 | dramatic framework | the situation, whether actual or fictional, realistic or fanciful, in which an author places his or her characters in order to express the theme | 25 | |
| 6676294425 | dramatic irony | see irony | 26 | |
| 6676297045 | duple meter | a meter in which a majority of the feet contain two syllables | 27 | |
| 6676299912 | end rhyme | rhymes that occur at the ends of the lines | 28 | |
| 6676306580 | end-stopped-line | a line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation | 29 | |
| 6676318593 | English (or Shakespearean or Elizabethan) sonnet | a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg. Its content or structure ideally parallels the rhyme scheme, falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet; but it is often structured, like the Italian sonnet, into octave and sestet, the principal break in thought coming at the end of the eighth line | 30 | |
| 6676090978 | euphony | a smooth, pleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds | 31 | |
| 6676342179 | expected rhythm | the rhythmic expectation set up by the basic meter of a poem | 32 | |
| 6676348208 | extended figure (also known as sustained figure) | a figure of speech (usually metaphor, simile, or personification, or apostrophe) sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem | 33 | |
| 6676361499 | extra-metrical syllables | in metrical verse, extra unaccented syllables added at the beginnings or endings of lines; these may be either a feature of the metrical form of a poem or occur as exceptions to the form. In iambic lines, they occur at the end of the line; in trochaic, at the beginning | 34 | |
| 6676378573 | feminine rhyme | a rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel is in either the second or third last syllable of the words involved (for example, ceiling - appealing, hurrying - scurrying) | 35 | |
| 6676387793 | figurative language | language employing figures of speech; language that cannot be taken literally or only literally | 36 | |
| 6676393389 | fixed form | any form of poem in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage or tradition, such as sonnet, limerick, villanelle, and so on | 37 | |
| 6676403618 | folk ballad | a narrative poem designed to be sung, composed by an anonymous author, and transmitted orally for years or generations before being written down. It has usually undergone modification through the process of oral transmission | 38 | |
| 6676414393 | foot | the basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of metrical verse. A foot usually contains once accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables | 39 | |
| 6676421260 | form | the external pattern or shape of a poem, describable without reference to content, as continuous form, stanzaic form, fixed form, free verse, and syllabic verse | 40 | |
| 6676100790 | free verse | non-metrical poetry in which the basic rhythmic unit is the line, and in which pauses, line breaks, and formal patterns develop organically from the requirements of the individual poem rather than from established poetic forms | 41 | |
| 6676437221 | grammatical pause (also known as caesura) | a pause introduced into the reading of a line by a mark of punctuation | 42 | |
| 6676440373 | heard rhythm | the actual rhythm of a metrical poem as we hear it when it is read naturally. The heard rhythm mostly conforms to but sometimes departs from or modifies the expected rhythm | 43 | |
| 6676449352 | hexameter | a metrical line containing six feet | 44 | |
| 6676454349 | hyperbole | see overstatement | 45 | |
| 6676454350 | iamb | a metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable (for example, re-hearse) | 46 | |
| 6676462689 | iambic meter | a meter in which the majority of feet are iambs. The most common English meter | 47 | |
| 6676116003 | internal rhyme | a rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme words occur(s) within the line | 48 | |
| 6676466878 | irony | a situation, or use of language, involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy | 49 | |
| 6676124873 | Italian (or Petrachan) sonnet | a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rhymes, such as cdcdcd or cdecde | 50 | |
| 6676473717 | limerick | a fixed form consisting of five lines of anapestic meter, the first two trimeter, the next two dimeter, the last line trimeter, rhyming aabba; used exclusively for humorous or nonsense verse | 51 | |
| 6676137736 | masculine rhyme (also known as single rhyme) | a rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel sound is the final syllable of the words involved (for example, dance - pants, scald - recalled) | 52 | |
| 6676486188 | metaphor | a figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike. It may take one of four forms: (1) that in which the literal term and the figurative term are both named; (2) that in which the literal term is named and the figurative term implied; (3) that in which the literal term is implied and the figurative term named; (4) that in which both the literal and figurative term are implied | 53 | |
| 6676149287 | meter | the regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse; the measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry | 54 | |
| 6676154933 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which some significant aspect of detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience (the use of something closely related for the thing actually meant) | 55 | |
| 6676514698 | metrical variations | departures from the basic metrical pattern | 56 | |
| 6676517112 | monometer | a metrical line containing one foot | 57 | |
| 6676519614 | octave | (1) an eight-line stanza. (2) the first eight lines of a sonnet, especially one structured in the manner of an Italian sonnet | 58 | |
| 6676530255 | onomatopoeia | the use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound (for example, boom, click, plop) | 59 | |
| 6676538224 | onomatopoetic language | language employing onomatopoeia | 60 | |
| 6676543083 | overstatement (or hyperbole) | a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth | 61 | |
| 6676548345 | oxymoron | a compact paradox in which two successive words seemingly contradict each other | 62 | |
| 6676554791 | paradox | a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements | 63 | |
| 6676564316 | paradoxical situation | a situation containing apparently but not actually incompatible elements. The celebration of a fifth birthday anniversary by a twenty-year-old man is paradoxical but explainable if the man was born on February 29. The Christian doctrines that Christ was born of a virgin and is both God and man are, for Christian believer, paradoxes (that is, apparently impossible but true) | 64 | |
| 6676564317 | paradoxical statement | a figure of speech in which an apparently self-contradictory statement is nevertheless found to be true | 65 | |
| 6676564318 | paraphrase | a restatement of the content of a poem designed to make its prose meaning as clear as possible | 66 | |
| 6676823524 | pastoral | a poem dealing with shepherds and rural life | 67 | |
| 6676566988 | pentameter | a metrical line containing five feet | 68 | |
| 6676569357 | personification | a figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept | 69 | |
| 6676571849 | Petrarchan sonnet | see Italian sonnet | 70 | |
| 6676620398 | phonetic intensive | a word whose sound, by an obscure process, to some degree suggests its meaning. As differentiated from onomatopoetic words, the meaning of phonetic intensives do not refer explicitly to sounds | 71 | |
| 6676632538 | prose meaning | that part of a poem's total meaning that can be separated out and expressed through paraphrase | 72 | |
| 6676638185 | quatrain | (1) a four-line stanza. (2) a four-line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme | 73 | |
| 6676644683 | refrain | a repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines, normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanzaic form | 74 | |
| 6676649508 | rhetorical pause (also known as caesura) | a natural pause, unmarked by punctuation, introduced into the reading of a line by its phrasing or syntax | 75 | |
| 6676659586 | rhetorical poetry | poetry using artificially eloquent language; that is, language too high-flown for its occasion and unfaithful to the full complexity of human experience | 76 | |
| 6676668773 | rhetorical stress | in natural speech, as in prose and poetic writing, the stressing of words or syllables so as to emphasize the meaning and sentence structure | 77 | |
| 6676676105 | rhythm | any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound | 78 | |
| 6676680831 | rhyme | the repetition of the accented vowel and all succeeding sounds in important or importantly positioned words (for example, old - cold, vane - reign, court - report, order - recorder). The above definition applies to perfect rhyme and assumes that the accented vowel sounds involved are preceded by differing consonant sounds. If the preceding consonant sound is the same (for example, manse - romance, style - stile), or if there is no preceding consonant sound in either word (for example, aisle - isle, alter - altar), or if the same word is repeated in the rhyming position (for example, hill - hill), the words are called identical rhymes. | 79 | |
| 6676722831 | rhyme scheme | any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanza | 80 | |
| 6676726330 | run-on-line | a line which has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the succeeding lilne | 81 | |
| 6676733278 | sarcasm | bitter or cutting speech; speech intended by its speaker to give pain to the person addressed | 82 | |
| 6676744158 | satire | a kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the ostensible purpose of bringing about reform or of keeping others from falling into similar folly or vice | 83 | |
| 6676751145 | scansion | the process of measuring metrical verse, that is, of marking accented and unaccented syllables, dividing the lines into feet, identifying the metrical pattern, and noting significant variations from that pattern | 84 | |
| 6676763101 | sentimental poetry | poetry that attempts to manipulate the reader's emotions in order to achieve a greater emotional response than the poem itself really warrants (a sentimental novel or film is sometimes called, pejoratively, a "tear-jerker") | 85 | |
| 6676774637 | sestet | (1) a six-line stanza. (2) the last six lines of a sonnet structured on the Italian sonnet | 86 | |
| 6676784615 | Shakespearean sonnet | see English sonnet | 87 | |
| 6676784616 | simile | a figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike. The comparison is made explicit by the use of some such word or phases as like, as, than, similar to, resembles, or seems | 88 | |
| 6676796965 | single rhyme | see masculine rhyme | 89 | |
| 6676802302 | situational irony | see irony | 90 | |
| 6676830782 | sonnet | a fixed form of fourteen lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme conforming to or approximating one of two main types - the Italian or the English | 91 | |
| 6676844243 | spondee | a metrical foot consisting of two syllables equally or almost equally accented (for example, true - blue) | 92 | |
| 6676850465 | stanza | a group of lines whose metrical pattern (and usually its rhyme scheme as well) is repeated throughout a poem | 93 | |
| 6676861332 | stanzaic form | the form taken on by a poem when it is written in a series of units having the same number of lines and usually other characteristics in common, such as metrical pattern or rhyme scheme | 94 | |
| 6676873110 | stress | same as an accent | 95 | |
| 6676876214 | structure | the internal organization of a poem's content | 96 | |
| 6676878701 | substitution | in metrical verse, the replacement of the expected metrical foot by a different one (for example, a trochee occurring during an iambic line) | 97 | |
| 6676887760 | sustained figure | see extended figure | 98 | |
| 6676890089 | syllabic verse | verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line | 99 | |
| 6676894699 | symbol | a figure of speech in which something (object, person, situation, or action) means more than what it is. A symbol, in other words, may be read both literally and metaphorically | 100 | |
| 6676167615 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (the use of the part for the whole) | 101 | |
| 6676903744 | synesthesia | presentation of one sense experience in terms usually associated with another sensation | 102 | |
| 6676909298 | tercet | a three-line stanza exhibited in terza rima and villanelle as well as in other poetic forms | 103 | |
| 6676915978 | terza rima | an interlocking rhyme scheme with the pattern aba bcb cdc, etc. | 104 | |
| 6676921438 | tetrameter | a metrical line containing five feet | 105 | |
| 6676924214 | theme | the central idea of a literary work | 106 | |
| 6676927551 | tone | the writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the audience, or herself or himself; the emotional coloring, or emotional meaning, of a work | 107 | |
| 6676936552 | total meaning | the total experience communicated by a poem. It includes all those dimensions of experience by which a poem communicates - sensuous, emotional, imaginative, and intellectual - and it can be communicated in no other words than those of the poem itself | 108 | |
| 6676936553 | trimeter | a metrical line containing three feet | 109 | |
| 6676938310 | triple meter | a meter in which a majority of the feet contain three syllables. (Actually, if more than 25 percent of the feet in a poem are triple, its effect is more triple than duple, and it ought to perhaps be referred to as triple meter.) Anapestic and dactylic are both triple meters | 110 | |
| 6676938311 | trochaic meter | a meter in which the majority of the feet are trochees | 111 | |
| 6676940629 | trochee | a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable (for example, bar-ter) | 112 | |
| 6676940630 | truncation | in metric verse, the omission of an unaccented syllable at either end of a line | 113 | |
| 6676940631 | understatement | a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants | 114 | |
| 6676942409 | verbal irony | see irony | 115 | |
| 6676942410 | verse | metrical language; the opposite of prose | 116 | |
| 6676944883 | villanelee | a nineteen-line fixed form consisting of five tercets rhymed aba and a concluding quatrain rhymed abaa, with lines 1 and 3 of the first tercet serving as refrains in alternating the pattern through line 15 and then repeated as lines 18 and 19 | 117 |
