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| 9803652788 | 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 | 0 | |
| 9803652789 | Connotation | What a word suggests beyond its basic definition; a word's overtones of meaning | 1 | |
| 9803656386 | Denotation | The basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word | 2 | |
| 9803656387 | Ekphrasis | The poetic representation of a painting or sculpture in words | 3 | |
| 9803659228 | Epigram | (1) A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation. (2) A concise, clever, often paradoxical statement | 4 | |
| 9803664176 | Extended figure | A figure of speech (usually metaphor, simile, personification, or apostrophe) sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem | 5 | |
| 9803664177 | Figurative language | Language employing figures of speech; language that cannot be taken literally or only literally | 6 | |
| 9803666873 | Figure of speech | Broadly, any way of saying something other that the ordinary way; more narrowly (and for the purposes of this class) a way of saying one thing and meaning another | 7 | |
| 9803666874 | Juxtaposition | Positioning opposites next to each other to heighten the contrast | 8 | |
| 9803669625 | Metaphor | A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike | 9 | |
| 9803669626 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience | 10 | |
| 9803669627 | Onomatopoeia | The use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound (for example, boom, click, plop) | 11 | |
| 9803672306 | Personification | A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept | 12 | |
| 9803677685 | Rhythm | Any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound | 13 | |
| 9803677686 | Sentimentality | Unmerited or contrived tender feeling; that quality in a story that elicits or seeks to elicit tears through an oversimplification or falsification of reality | 14 | |
| 9803684337 | 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 phrase as like, as, than, similar to, resembles, or seems | 15 | |
| 9803687060 | Syntax | Word organization and order | 16 | |
| 9803687061 | Ballad | A narrative folk song. | 17 | |
| 9803691911 | Elegy | A type of literature defined as a song or poem, written in elegiac couplets, that expresses sorrow or lamentation, usually for one who has died. | 18 | |
| 9803691912 | Epic | A long poem in a lofty style about the exploits of heroic figures. These often come from an oral tradition of shared authorship or from a single, high-profile poet imitating the style. | 19 | |
| 9803691913 | Lyric | a song-like poem written mainly to express the feelings of emotions or thought from a particular person, thus separating it from narrative poems. These poems are generally short, averaging roughly twelve to thirty lines, and rarely go beyond sixty lines. These poems express vivid imagination as well as emotion and all flow fairly concisely. | 20 | |
| 9803695843 | Narrative poem | A poem that tells a story. | 21 | |
| 9803695844 | Ode | Usually a lyric poem of moderate length, with a serious subject, an elevated style, and an elaborate stanza pattern. | 22 | |
| 9803698384 | 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 | 23 |
