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| 7789943771 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed | 0 | |
| 7789943772 | Antithesis | Using opposite phrases in close conjunction. Examples might be, "I burn and I freeze," or "Her character is white as sunlight, black as midnight." It can be a contrast of opposites: "Evil men fear authority; good men cherish it." Alternatively, it can be a contrast of degree: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for all mankind." | 1 | |
| 7789943773 | Asyndeton | The artistic elimination of conjunctions in a sentence to create a particular effect. e.g. "He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac." (Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957) | 2 | |
| 7789943775 | Chiasmus | An author introduces words or concepts in a particular order, then later repeats those terms or similar ones in reversed order to achieve particular effects. It involves taking parallelism and deliberately turning it inside out. For example: "By day the frolic, and the dance by night." "I lead the life I love; I love the life I lead." "Naked I rose from the earth; to the grave I fall clothed." | 3 | |
| 7789943776 | Connotation | What a word suggests beyond its basic definition; a word's overtones of meaning | 4 | |
| 7789943777 | Denotation | The basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word | 5 | |
| 7789943778 | Ekphrasis | The poetic representation of a painting or sculpture in words | 6 | |
| 7789943779 | Epigram | (1) A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation. (2) A concise, clever, often paradoxical statement. | 7 | |
| 7789943780 | Extended figure | (also knows as sustained 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 | 8 | |
| 7789943781 | Figurative language | Language employing figures of speech; language that cannot be taken literally or only literally | 9 | |
| 7789943782 | 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 | 10 | |
| 7789943783 | Inversion | Created by alteration of the standard English word order S-V-O in a sentence. Often used to call attention to something, perhaps to emphasize a point or an idea by placing it in the initial position, or to slow the pace with unusual order; common in Shakespeare as he 'inverts' sentence order for rhythmic effect as in Twelfth Night when Orsino says "...so full of shapes is fancy." | 11 | |
| 7789943784 | Juxtaposition | Positioning opposites next to each other to heighten the contrast | 12 | |
| 7789943785 | Metaphor | A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike | 13 | |
| 7789943786 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience | 14 | |
| 7789943787 | Onomatopoeia | The use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound (for example, boom, click, plop). | 15 | |
| 7789943788 | Personification | A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept | 16 | |
| 7789943789 | Rhythm | Any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound | 17 | |
| 7789943790 | 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 | 18 | |
| 7789943791 | 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 | 19 | |
| 7789943792 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole. In this class it is subsumed under the term Metonymy. | 20 | |
| 7789943793 | Syntax | Word organization and order. | 21 | |
| 7789989737 | 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) | 22 | |
| 7789989738 | Anapest | A metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable (for example, understand) | 23 | |
| 7789989739 | Anapestic meter | A meter in which a majority of the feet are anapests | 24 | |
| 7789989740 | Approximate rhyme | (also known as imperfect rhyme, near rhyme, slant rhyme, or oblique rhyme) | 25 | |
| 7789989741 | Assonance | The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, hat-ran-amber, vein- made). | 26 | |
| 7789989742 | 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 this meter is often not followed strictly. | 27 | |
| 7789989743 | Blank verse | Poetry with a meter, but not rhymed, usually in iambic pentameter | 28 | |
| 7789989744 | Consonance | The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, book-plaque-thicker) | 29 | |
| 7789989745 | Couplet | Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme | 30 | |
| 7789989746 | Dactyl | A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables (for example, merrily) | 31 | |
| 7789989747 | Dactylic meter | A meter in which a majority of the feet are dactyls | 32 | |
| 7789989748 | End rhyme | Rhymes that occur at the ends of lines | 33 | |
| 7789989749 | End-stopped line | A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation — the opposite of enjambment | 34 | |
| 7789989750 | 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 | 35 | |
| 7789989751 | 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. | 36 | |
| 7789989752 | Feminine rhyme | A rhyme in which the stress is on the penultimate (second from last) syllable of the words (picky, tricky) | 37 | |
| 7789989753 | 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 | 38 | |
| 7789989754 | 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 | 39 | |
| 7789989755 | 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 | 40 | |
| 7789989757 | 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. | 41 | |
| 7789989758 | Iamb | A metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable (for example, rehearse) | 42 |
