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| 7215317437 | alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words | 0 | |
| 7215322878 | allusion | an indirect or passing reference to something | 1 | |
| 7215325711 | anapest | a metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable |  | 2 |
| 7215330895 | apostrophe | in which the poet addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing | 3 | |
| 7215332336 | assonance | the repetition of the sound of a vowel in non rhyming stressed syllables near each other ex. penitence | 4 | |
| 7215337286 | ballad | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas; usually sentimental or romantic | 5 | |
| 7215339866 | blank verse | verse without rhyme; particularly in iambic pentameter | 6 | |
| 7215341388 | Bildungsroman | a novel dealing with a person's formative years or spiritual education | 7 | |
| 7215343721 | caesura (Greek & Latin) | a break between words within a metrical foot | 8 | |
| 7215345957 | caesura (modern) | a pause near the middle of a line | 9 | |
| 7215347330 | colloquialism | the use of ordinary or familiar words or phrases; language that is not formal or literary | 10 | |
| 7215349761 | conceit | a metaphor that compares two unlike things in a surprising or clever way; often extended metaphors that dominate an entire passage or poem | 11 | |
| 7215355052 | connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal meaning | 12 | |
| 7215357166 | consonance | recurrence of similar sounds (consonants) in close proximity | 13 | |
| 7215358885 | convention | practice widely observed in a group; custom; accepted technique or device | 14 | |
| 7215360907 | couplet | two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. | 15 | |
| 7215361437 | dactyl | stressed, unstressed, unstressed | 16 | |
| 7215363375 | denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 17 | |
| 7215364508 | diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. | 18 | |
| 7215364810 | didactic | intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive | 19 | |
| 7215365489 | dramatic monologue | a long speech or poem in which one person speaks reflecting on a problem or situation. | 20 | |
| 7215367539 | dramatic poem | relies heavily on literary devices such as monologue or dialogue, often tells a story | 21 | |
| 7215369299 | elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. | 22 | |
| 7215370399 | epiphany | A moment of great insight; revelation | 23 | |
| 7215370834 | explication | The interpretation or analysis of a text. | 24 | |
| 7215371308 | figurative language | language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors. | 25 | |
| 7215371868 | foil | A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story. | 26 | |
| 7215372421 | foot | A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 27 | |
| 7215373030 | formulaic | following a formula or set procedure | 28 | |
| 7215376631 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 29 | |
| 7215383754 | hubris | excessive pride or self-confidence | 30 | |
| 7215387883 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 31 | |
| 7215387884 | iamb | An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, an iambic foot. | 32 | |
| 7215392108 | iambic pentameter | A line of poetry that contains five iambic feet | 33 | |
| 7215392818 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 34 | |
| 7215393328 | internal rhyme | when two words rhyme in the same line of poetry | 35 | |
| 7215394641 | intrusive narrator | keeps interrupting the narrative to address the reader | 36 | |
| 7215395455 | irony | the use of words to express something other than the literal meaning | 37 | |
| 7215397758 | leitmotif | a dominant or recurring theme or emotion | 38 | |
| 7215399358 | literal | Word for word; verbatim | 39 | |
| 7215400533 | litotes | a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite | 40 | |
| 7215401373 | lyric | A short poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker | 41 | |
| 7215402242 | metaphor | A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared. | 42 | |
| 7215402970 | meter | measure | 43 | |
| 7215403534 | metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 44 | |
| 7215404730 | synecdoche | using one part of an object to represent the entire object | 45 | |
| 7215406478 | monologue | A long speech made by one performer or by one person in a group. | 46 | |
| 7215407190 | mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 47 | |
| 7215407941 | motif | a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition | 48 | |
| 7215408466 | narrative poem | a poem that tells a story | 49 | |
| 7215408467 | narrator | the person telling the story | 50 | |
| 7215408977 | octave | an eight-line stanza | 51 | |
| 7215409416 | ode | a lyric poem that expresses strong emotions about life | 52 | |
| 7215411174 | onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named | 53 | |
| 7215411704 | oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 54 | |
| 7215412398 | parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 55 | |
| 7215412910 | paradox | A statement that contradicts itself | 56 | |
| 7215413227 | paraphrase | a restatement of a text or passage | 57 | |
| 7215413228 | parody | a satirical imitation | 58 | |
| 7215414217 | pathos | appeal to emotion | 59 | |
| 7215414218 | persona | An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. | 60 | |
| 7215414757 | personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | 61 | |
| 7215415427 | prosody | the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry | 62 | |
| 7215415996 | pun | a humorous play on words | 63 | |
| 7215416574 | quatrain | A four line stanza | 64 | |
| 7215416946 | refrain | the repetition of a similar line, phrase or group of lines repeated throughout a poem | 65 | |
| 7215417742 | rhyme | Repetition of sounds at the end of words | 66 | |
| 7215418497 | rhyme scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem | 67 | |
| 7215418498 | rhythm | A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound. | 68 | |
| 7215419174 | satire | using humor to expose something or someone to ridicule | 69 | |
| 7215419834 | scansion | the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm | 70 | |
| 7215420546 | sestet | a six-line stanza | 71 | |
| 7215420944 | soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 72 | |
| 7215421627 | sonnet | 14 line poem in iambic pentameter | 73 | |
| 7215422184 | spondee | A foot of two syllables, both of which are stressed | 74 | |
| 7215422887 | stanza | a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse. | 75 | |
| 7215423775 | stress | emphasis | 76 | |
| 7215424770 | style | the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work | 77 | |
| 7215425082 | subplot | a secondary plot that occurs along with the main plot | 78 | |
| 7215425673 | symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else | 79 | |
| 7215426046 | symbolism | A device in literature where an object represents an idea. | 80 | |
| 7215426529 | syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 81 | |
| 7215427370 | theme | Central idea of a work of literature | 82 | |
| 7215427857 | tone | the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. | 83 | |
| 7215428267 | trochee | a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable | 84 | |
| 7215428769 | verse | a line of poetry | 85 | |
| 7215431384 | metaphysical poem | Revolutionary, use of new metaphors describe the works of 17th century english poets, beyond physical | 86 | |
| 7215434699 | pastoral | A literary work that idealizes country and rural life | 87 | |
| 7215435135 | prose poem | prose that uses poetic language extensively | 88 | |
| 7215435608 | villanelle | A nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout. | 89 |
