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| 14504830219 | Alliteration | repetition at the beginning of words | 0 | |
| 14504830220 | Allusion | reference to something in literature or history | 1 | |
| 14504830221 | Anaphora | repetition of word/phrase at beginning of a clause | 2 | |
| 14504830222 | Apostrophe | when someone who is absent is directly addressed as though present | 3 | |
| 14504830223 | Assonance | repetition of a vowel sound | 4 | |
| 14504830224 | Bard | poet; William Shakespeare | 5 | |
| 14504830225 | Blank verse | iambic pentameter that doesn't rhyme; most of Shakespeare's plays | 6 | |
| 14504830226 | Cacophony | harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds/tones | 7 | |
| 14504830227 | Caesura | pause occuring within a line, indicated by punctuation | 8 | |
| 14504830228 | Closed form | poem follows specific rules; ex. Sonnet | 9 | |
| 14504830229 | Conceit | unconventional, surprising metaphor; often is an extended metaphor; John Donne | 10 | |
| 14504830230 | Connotation | cultural/emotional association of a word | 11 | |
| 14504830231 | Consonance | repetition of consonant sounds (at the end) | 12 | |
| 14504830232 | Couplet | two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme | 13 | |
| 14504830233 | Denotation | literal dictionary definition of a word | 14 | |
| 14504830234 | Diction | use of words | 15 | |
| 14504830235 | End stop | a line that ends with a pause, usually indicated by punctuation | 16 | |
| 14504830236 | English/Shakespearean Sonnet | three quatrains and a couplet; abab cdcd efef gg | 17 | |
| 14504830237 | Enjambment | running over of a sentence from one line to the next | 18 | |
| 14504830238 | Euphemism | polite, indirect expressions for words/phrases considered harsh and impolite | 19 | |
| 14504830239 | Euphony | combination of words pleasant to ear predominates | 20 | |
| 14504830240 | Feminine rhyme | rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed; ex. Fairy and berry | 21 | |
| 14504830241 | Free verse | poetry not in traditional meter but still rhythmical; Walt Whitman | 22 | |
| 14504830242 | Heroic couplet | two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines that rhyme | 23 | |
| 14504830243 | Hyperbole | over exaggeration for serious or comic effect | 24 | |
| 14504830244 | Imagery | representation through literature of sense experiences | 25 | |
| 14504830245 | Internal rhyme | rhyme within a line | 26 | |
| 14504830246 | Inversion | anastrophe; normal order of words is reversed; ex. Verb then subject | 27 | |
| 14504830247 | Irony | contrast between what is expected and what is reality | 28 | |
| 14504830248 | Situational Irony | outcome different than expected | 29 | |
| 14504830249 | Dramatic Irony | audience knows more than the characters | 30 | |
| 14504830250 | Verbal Irony | making a statement while meaning opposite ("well that was nice"); ironic similes (as soft as sandpaper) | 31 | |
| 14504830251 | Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet | octave and sestet abbaabba cdcdcd -or- cdecde | 32 | |
| 14504830252 | Kenning | compressed form of a metaphor where object is described in a two word phrase; ex. sea= whale road | 33 | |
| 14504830253 | Light verse | poetry on playful or trivial themes for the purpose of amusement, often limericks, nonsense poems, or double dactyls; Catullus | 34 | |
| 14504830254 | Masculine rhyme | rhyme of stressed and final syllables of words | 35 | |
| 14504830255 | Metaphor | comparing words without using like or as | 36 | |
| 14504830256 | Meter | repetition of regular rhythmic unit (foot) in a line of poetry | 37 | |
| 14504830257 | Metonymy | substitution of a term with one closely associated; ex. Referring to a king as the crown | 38 | |
| 14504830258 | Mood | evokes feelings in reader; "atmosphere" of the poem | 39 | |
| 14504830259 | Motif | an element (image, idea, theme, situation, or action) that recurs significantly | 40 | |
| 14504830260 | Octave | eight lines stanza (or the first eight lines of a sonnet) | 41 | |
| 14504830261 | Onomatopoeia | word mimics sound that word makes | 42 | |
| 14504830262 | Open form | less structured, does not have to follow certain rules/patterns | 43 | |
| 14504830263 | Oxymoron | form of a paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms to form a single expression | 44 | |
| 14504830264 | Paradox | situation, action, or feeling that appears to be contradictory at first but upon reflection makes sense | 45 | |
| 14504830265 | Pastoral | describes simplicity, charm, and serenity of life of shepherds or country life as a whole | 46 | |
| 14504830266 | Personification | human attributes given to an animal, object, or concept | 47 | |
| 14504830267 | Pun | a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings; can be serious or humorous | 48 | |
| 14504830268 | Quatrain | four line stanza with rhyme | 49 | |
| 14504830269 | Refrain | a repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines, typically at a fixed position in a poem | 50 | |
| 14504830270 | Rhyme scheme | any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas | 51 | |
| 14504830271 | Rhythm | recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables: pleasurable and heightens emotion | 52 | |
| 14504830272 | Scan | process of measuring metrical verse: mark accented and unaccented syllables; divide into feet; notice pattern and variations | 53 | |
| 14504830273 | Sestet | six line stanza (or last six lines of Italian Sonnet) | 54 | |
| 14504830274 | Simile | explicit (using like or as) comparison | 55 | |
| 14504830275 | Slant rhyme | "imperfect rhyme"; stressed syllables of ending consonants match, but vowels do not; ex. Shape, keep | 56 | |
| 14504830276 | Speaker | the person we imagine to be saying the poem | 57 | |
| 14504830277 | Spenserian Sonnet | reorganized Shakespearean Sonnet into couplets; abab bcbc cdcd ee | 58 | |
| 14504830278 | Stanza | repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhythmic scheme | 59 | |
| 14504830279 | Synecdoche | a part is used for the whole; ex. Field hands | 60 | |
| 14504830280 | Synesthesia | taking one sensory input and combining it with another; ex. Loud color | 61 | |
| 14504830281 | Syntax | ordering of words into patterns/sentences | 62 | |
| 14504830282 | Tone | writer or speaker's attitude toward the subject, audience, or him/herself | 63 | |
| 14504830283 | Understatement | saying less or with less force what one means | 64 | |
| 14504830284 | Verse | a line of metrical writing, a stanza, or a piece written in meter | 65 |
