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| 2890256040 | Allusion | a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical | 0 | |
| 2890261771 | Anaphora | a rhetorical device of repeating the same word or words at the start of two or more lines of poetry or successive phrases or sentences in prose | 1 | |
| 2890263450 | Antithesis | a rhetorical device contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas, balancing one against the other in strong opposition. | 2 | |
| 2890270964 | Aphorism | a concise statement which expresses succinctly a general truth or idea often using rhyme of balance | 3 | |
| 2890275454 | Apostrophe | a rhetorical device in which an absent or imaginary person or an abstraction is directly addressed as though present | 4 | |
| 2890279342 | Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds between different consonants, such as in neigh / fade | 5 | |
| 2890282585 | Blank Verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 6 | |
| 2890287136 | Caesura | a pause in a line of poetry created not by the meter, but by the natural speaking rhythm, sometimes coinciding with punctuation | 7 | |
| 2890305731 | Chiasmus | a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | 8 | |
| 2890312680 | Complaint | a lyric poem of lament, regret, and sadness which may explain the speaker's mood, describe its cause, discuss remedies, and appeal for help | 9 | |
| 2890314222 | Conceit | an elaborate figure of speech in which two seemingly dissimilar things or situations are compared | 10 | |
| 2890318707 | Connotation | the implied or associative meaning of a word (as opposed to denotation) | 11 | |
| 2890320322 | Consonance | Though the final consonants in several stressed syllables agree, the vowel sounds that precede them are different. | 12 | |
| 2890322643 | Denotation | the literal meaning of a word (as opposed to connotation) | 13 | |
| 2890324907 | Dissonance | the grating of sounds that are harsh or do not go together | 14 | |
| 2890326306 | Elegy | a formal poem focusing on death or mortality, usually beginning with the recent death of a particular person | 15 | |
| 2890328554 | Ellipsis | the omission of a word or phrase which is grammatically necessary but can be deduced from the context | 16 | |
| 2890331582 | End-stopped line | a line of poetry that ends when the grammatical unit ends. Its opposite is enjambment. | 17 | |
| 2890333876 | Enjambment | Describes a line of poetry in which the sense and grammatical construction continue on to the next line. In an enjambed line, the lack of completion creates pressure to move rapidly to the closure promised in the next line. | 18 | |
| 2890338613 | Epigram | a concise, witty saying in poetry or prose that either stands alone or is part of a larger work; may also refer to a short poem of this type | 19 | |
| 2890340619 | Euphony | a succession of harmonious sounds used in poetry or prose; the opposite of cacophony | 20 | |
| 2890342918 | Exemplum | a brief tale used in medieval times used to illustrate a sermon or teach a lesson | 21 | |
| 2890345641 | Free Verse | poetry that is written without a regular meter, usually without rhyme | 22 | |
| 2890353499 | Idyll | a short descriptive narrative, usually a poem, about an idealized country life; also called a pastoral | 23 | |
| 2890376339 | Internal Rhyme | a rhyme occurring within a line of poetry, as in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven": While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping | 24 | |
| 2890378179 | Litotes | a type of understatement in which something affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite (the teacher was not overly impressed with by the poor test scores) | 25 | |
| 2890384491 | Lyric | a type of melodious, imaginative, and subjective poetry that is usually short and personal, expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker rather than telling a story | 26 | |
| 2890386694 | Metonomy | a figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is associated, such as using "the crown" to refer to a monarch | 27 | |
| 2890395501 | Pastoral | a poem about idealized rural life, or shepherds, or both; also called an idyll | 28 | |
| 2890397364 | Pathos | the quality in a work that prompts the reader to feel pity or sorrow | 29 | |
| 2890405183 | Polysyndenton | the use of many conjunctions to achieve an overwhelming effect | 30 | |
| 2890407555 | Stock Character | a standard character who may be stereotyped, such as the miser or the foold, or universally recognized, like the hard-boiled private eye in detective stories | 31 | |
| 2890408728 | Syllepsis | the linking of one word with two other words in two strikingly different ways (Ex. The migrants "exhausted their credit, exhausted their friends.") | 32 | |
| 2890413769 | Synechdoche | the use of one part of an object to represent the entire object, such as using "boards" to mean "a stage" or "wheels" to mean "a car" | 33 | |
| 2890416780 | Synesthesia | Describing one kind of sensation in terms of another, e.g., sound as color, color as sound, sound as taste, color as temperature | 34 | |
| 2890419553 | Tautology | needless repetition which adds no meaning or understanding (Ex. widow woman; free gift; close proximity) | 35 |
