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| 9803790648 | Alliteration | The repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, map-moon, kill-code, preach-approve) | 0 | |
| 9803790649 | Anapest | A metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable (for example, understand) | 1 | |
| 9803793662 | Anapestic meter | A meter in which a majority of the feet are anapests | 2 | |
| 9803793663 | 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 rimes (for example, arrayed-said) | 3 | |
| 9803793688 | Assonance | The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, hat-ran-amber, veinmade). | 4 | |
| 9803797765 | Ballad meter | Stanzas formed of quatrains of iambs in which the first and third lines have four stresses (tetrameter) and the second and fourth lines have three stresses (trimeter). Usually, the second and fourth lines rhyme (abcb), although ballad meter is often not followed strictly. | 5 | |
| 9803797766 | Blank verse | Poetry with a meter, but not rhymed, usually in iambic pentameter | 6 | |
| 9803797767 | Consonance | The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, bookplaque-thicker) | 7 | |
| 9803801555 | Couplet | Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme | 8 | |
| 9803801556 | Dactyl | A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables (for example, merrily) | 9 | |
| 9803803772 | Dactyl meter | A meter in which a majority of the feet are dactyls | 10 | |
| 9803811273 | End rhyme | Rhymes that occur at the ends of lines | 11 | |
| 9803819806 | End-stopped line | A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation — the opposite of enjambment | 12 | |
| 9803819807 | Enjambment | Or run-on line, a line which has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the succeeding line — the opposite of an end-stopped line | 13 | |
| 9803824375 | English (or Shakespearean) 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. | 14 | |
| 9803824376 | Feminine rhyme | A rhyme in which the stress is on the penultimate (second from last) syllable of the words (picky, tricky) | 15 | |
| 9803827292 | Foot | The basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of verse. A foot usually contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables | 16 | |
| 9803827293 | Free verse | Nonmetrical verse. Poetry written in free verse is arranged in lines, may be more or less rhythmical, but has no fixed metrical pattern or expectation | 17 | |
| 9803831711 | Half rhyme | (Sometimes called slant rhyme, sprung, near rhyme, oblique rhyme, off rhyme or imperfect rhyme), is consonance on the final consonants of the words involved | 18 | |
| 9803831712 | Heroic couplet | Poems constructed by a sequence of two lines of (usually rhyming) verse in iambic pentameter. If these couplets do not rhyme, they are usually separated by extra white space. | 19 | |
| 9803835536 | Iamb | A metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable (for example, rehearse) | 20 | |
| 9803835537 | Iambic meter | A meter in which the majority of feet are iambs, the most common English meter | 21 | |
| 9803839514 | Internal rhyme | A rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme-words occur within the line | 22 | |
| 9804568142 | Italian (or Petrarchan) 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 | 23 | |
| 9803839515 | Masculine rhyme | (also known as single rhyme) A rhyme in which the stress is on the final syllable of the words (rhyme, sublime) | 24 | |
| 9803843026 | Meter | Regularized rhythm; an arrangement of language in which the accents occur at apparently equal intervals in time | 25 | |
| 9803843027 | Octave | (1) An eight-line stanza. (2) The first eight lines of a sonnet, especially one structured in the manner of an Italian sonnet | 26 | |
| 9803846356 | Perfect rhyme | A rhyme in which is when the later part of the word or phrase is identical sounding to another. Types include masculine and feminine, among others | 27 | |
| 9803846357 | Pentameter | A metrical line containing five feet | 28 | |
| 9803849358 | Quatrain | (1) A four-line stanza. (2) A four-line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme | 29 | |
| 9803849359 | Refrain | A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines, normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanziac form | 30 | |
| 9803852312 | Rhyme | The repetition of an identical or similarly accented sound or sounds in a work. Lyricists may find multiple ways to rhyme within a verse. End rhymes have words that rhyme at the end of a verse-line. Internal rhymes have words that rhyme within it. | 31 | |
| 9803852313 | Rhyme scheme | Any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas | 32 | |
| 9803855552 | Scansion | The process of measuring 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 | 33 | |
| 9803855553 | Sestet | (1) A six-line stanza (2) The last six lines of a sonnet structured on the Italian model | 34 | |
| 9803855554 | Spondee | A metrical foot consisting of two syllables equally or almost equally accented (for example, true-blue) | 35 | |
| 9803861380 | Stanza | A group of lines whose metrical pattern (and usually its rhyme scheme as well) is repeated throughout a poem | 36 | |
| 9803861381 | Syntax | The arrangement of words to form phrases, clauses and sentences; sentence construction | 37 | |
| 9803866200 | Terza Rima | A three-line stanza form borrowed from the Italian poets. The rhyme scheme is: aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc | 38 | |
| 9803866201 | Tetrameter | A metrical line containing four feet | 39 | |
| 9803869082 | Trimeter | A metrical line containing three feet | 40 | |
| 9803869083 | 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 perhaps to be referred to as triple meter.) Anapestic and dactylic are both triple meters. | 41 | |
| 9803872774 | Trochaic meter | A meter in which the majority of feet are trochees | 42 | |
| 9803872775 | Trochee | A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable (for example, barter | 43 |
