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| 3455092629 | Apostrophe | figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person or an abstract quality | 0 | |
| 3455095738 | Sestet | six-line stanza | 1 | |
| 3479322056 | Villanelle | - a nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets, each with the rhyme scheme aha, and a final quatrain with the rhyme scheme abaa -line 1 repeated to form lines 6, 12, and 8 -line 3 repeated to form lines9, 15, and 19 -only two basic rhymes -two repeated lines form the final couplet | 2 | |
| 3491435936 | Dramatic Monologue | a poem in which the speaker addresses one or more listeners who remain silent or whose replies aren't revealed -FYI many of Robert Browning's poems | 3 | |
| 3529276150 | Antihero | protagonist who lacks traditional heroic qualities and is usually dark and brooding | 4 | |
| 3529279648 | Idiom | -expression peculiar to a language and often possessing a meaning other than its grammatical or logical one -Example: a chip on your shoulder | 5 | |
| 3544070683 | Metonymy | -image that uses the name of one thing to represent something else with which it is strongly associated -Example: We often use the phrase "the White House" to stand for our national government even though the White House is not part of our national government-- it is merely associated with it because it is the President's residence. -Example: "a seven says to a six" from "Rite of Passage" by Sharon Olds | 6 | |
| 3568434150 | Ode | -a complex, generally long poem on a serious subject | 7 | |
| 3603080664 | Catalectic Line | line of poetry missing a syllable from its metrical form | 8 | |
| 3608318732 | Hypercatelectic Line | line of poetry with an extra syllable added to its metrical form | 9 | |
| 3620771105 | Didactic Literature | -literature menat ot instruct, give advice, or convert a philosophical or moral lesson -example: Parables of Christ | 10 | |
| 3627063644 | Picaresque Novel | an episodic novel about a rogue-like wanderer who lives off his wits -example: Don Quixote by Cervantes | 11 | |
| 3640192970 | Conceit | a metaphor that makes a surprising connection between two very dissimilar things -FYI: John Donne and the metaphysical poets were famous for this. | 12 | |
| 3689770723 | Oxymoron | figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory or incongruous ideas | 13 | |
| 3698199092 | Hubris | Excessive pride that leads tragic hero to their deaths | 14 | |
| 3735826053 | Synesthesia | -description of one sensation (sense) in terms of another -examples: loud colors, sharp tastes -also spelled synesthesia | 15 | |
| 3735829151 | meter | a generally regular pattern or stressed an unstressed syllables in poetry | 16 | |
| 3744153497 | ambiguity | multiple meanings for an event, character, image, phrase, or symbol | 17 | |
| 3752145665 | Irony | a discrepancy between expectation and reality | 18 | |
| 3759674332 | verbal irony | occurs when a character says one thing but really means another | 19 | |
| 3773527905 | situational irony | occurs when there is a discrepancy between what is expected or appropriate to happen and what actually happens | 20 | |
| 3782322277 | Dramatic Irony | occurs when the audience knows something that a character does not | 21 | |
| 3790888754 | Heroic Couplet | a rhyming couplet, each line in iambic pentameter | 22 | |
| 3799247863 | Trochee | -metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable -Example: peter, peter pumpkin eater | 23 | |
| 3806943673 | Tercet | a three-line stanza | 24 | |
| 3820503429 | triplet | a rhyming tercet | 25 | |
| 3829393861 | Bathos | the use of insincere or overdone sentimentality | 26 | |
| 3838164556 | pathos | the use of sincere, warm compassion and/or feelings | 27 | |
| 3846592251 | Stream of Consciousness | a writing style that tires to depict the random flow of thought, emotions, memories, and associations rushing through character's mind AKA interior monologue | 28 |
