9937510794 | Narrative poem | A poem that tells a story. | 0 | |
9941733097 | Lyric poem | Poetry that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts or feelings | 1 | |
9941737998 | Free verse | Poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement | 2 | |
9941744100 | Ode | A long, serious lyric poem that is elevated in tone and style | 3 | |
9941747565 | Aubade | A morning love poem | 4 | |
9941751154 | Sestina | Fixed verse form consisting of 6 lines in 6 stanza | 5 | |
9941754718 | Ballad | A narrative poem set to music/usually uses some form of rhyme scheme | 6 | |
9941759883 | Imagery | Descriptive language that appeals to the five senses Visual, auditory, Olfactory, Gustatory, Tactile | 7 | |
9941772012 | Denotation | The literal, dictionary meaning of a word | 8 | |
9941796022 | Connotation | The suggested or implied meanings associated with a word beyond its dictionary definition | 9 | |
9941807110 | Anthropomorphism | Contributing human characteristics to somethings that is not human | 10 | |
9941810892 | Conceit | An extended metaphor that uses complex logic to give a deeper understanding or something | 11 | |
9941815357 | Apostrophe | A literary device in which a speaker addresses an inanimate object, an idea, or an absent person | 12 | |
9941835426 | Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds, generally at the beginning of words | 13 | |
9941838586 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds within or at end of words that do not rhyme or are preceded by different vowel sounds | 14 | |
9941844807 | Asonance | the repetition of same or similar vowel sounds in words that are close together | 15 | |
9941853226 | Onomatopoeia | The use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sounds of what it describes | 16 | |
9941861183 | Cacophony | the use of consonants in combinations which require explosive delivery | 17 | |
9941865293 | Euphony | The use of words having pleasant and harmonious effects | 18 | |
9941868486 | End rhyme | The rhyming of words at the end of a line | 19 | |
9941880884 | Internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry | 20 | |
9941884542 | Slant rhyme | Two words that sound similar, but do not have a perfect rhyme | 21 | |
9941890235 | Rhyme scheme | The pattern that end rhymes form in a stanza or poem | 22 | |
9941895975 | Speaker | the voice that communicates with the reader of a poem | 23 | |
9941901009 | Couplet | consist of two lines | 24 | |
9941904501 | tercets | 3 lines | 25 | |
9941904502 | quatrian | 4 line | 26 | |
9941907626 | sestet | 6 lines | 27 | |
9941907627 | octave | 8 lines | 28 | |
9941909985 | Caesura | pause or break within a line of verse | 29 | |
9941912749 | volta | dramatic change in thought or emotion | 30 | |
9941916166 | sonnets | 14 line poem (10 syllables, 5 stressed, 5 unstressed) | 31 |
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