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| 4208618108 | alliteration | repetition of two or more consonant sounds | 0 | |
| 4208619074 | allusion | reference to something assumed to be well known | 1 | |
| 4208638252 | assonance | repetition of two or more vowel sounds | 2 | |
| 4208640054 | cacophony | harsh sound; opposite of euphony | 3 | |
| 4208647085 | colloquial english | casual/informal, but correct language of ordinary native speakers | 4 | |
| 4208649519 | connotation | associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word | 5 | |
| 4208656528 | consonance | words share similar consonant sounds but different vowel sounds; slant rhyme | 6 | |
| 4208664940 | couplet | two line stanza in poetry, usually rhymes and has equal length; usually at the end | 7 | |
| 4208667118 | denotation | literal dictionary definition of a word | 8 | |
| 4208668935 | diction | word choice or vocabulary | 9 | |
| 4208670087 | didactic poetry | poetry that aims for education rather than art | 10 | |
| 4208672470 | dramatic monologue | poem written as a speech/single speaker in a decisive moment | 11 | |
| 4208675924 | end rhyme | rhyme that occurs at the end of a line | 12 | |
| 4208676919 | epigraph | brief quote preceding a story or literary work | 13 | |
| 4208678844 | euphony | harmonious effect, opposite cacophony | 14 | |
| 4208680060 | exact rhyme | sounds following initial letters that are identical in sound | 15 | |
| 4208682185 | expressionism | dramatic style against realism; dreamlike subjective realm | 16 | |
| 4208684393 | eye rhyme | spelling of two words looks the same, but they are pronounced differently (cough, though) | 17 | |
| 4208690086 | feminine rhyme | rhyme of words containing more than one syllable where the rhyme lands on any syllable except the last | 18 | |
| 4208693190 | form | means by which a literary work conveys meaning | 19 | |
| 4208695285 | formal english | heightened, impersonal language of educated speakers (see diction) | 20 | |
| 4208697344 | general english | ordinary language of educated native speakers (see diction) | 21 | |
| 4208700013 | hyperbole | exaggeration or overstatement | 22 | |
| 4208701143 | iamb | unstressed, stressed (meter; type of foot) | 23 | |
| 4208702552 | iambic pentameter | five iambic feet per line (meter) | 24 | |
| 4208705030 | image | reference to a sensory experience in literature | 25 | |
| 4208706261 | imagery | collective set of images in a literary work | 26 | |
| 4208707622 | impressionism | when a literary work centers on a character's mental life rather than surrounding reality; emphasizes external events rather than impression they leave | 27 | |
| 4208711198 | internal refrain | refrain within a stanza | 28 | |
| 4208712090 | internal rhyme | rhyme occurs within a line of poetry | 29 | |
| 4208713223 | irony | a discrepancy in meaning/ meaning is masked (dramatic, verbal, situational) | 30 | |
| 4208716281 | levels of diction | Formal English (highest) General English Colloquial English Vulgate (lowest) | 31 | |
| 4208720109 | lyric | short poem expressing thoughts, feelings of a single speaker | 32 | |
| 4208721750 | masculine rhyme | rhyme of one syllable words OR rhyme of stressed final syllable | 33 | |
| 4208724171 | metaphor | comparison by stating that one thing IS another | 34 | |
| 4208725952 | metonymy | when the name of something is substituted in for something similar (i.e White House for President) | 35 | |
| 4208729062 | narrative poem | poem that tells a story | 36 | |
| 4208730045 | onomatopoeia | word imitating a sound | 37 | |
| 4208731247 | personification | non-human object is given human characteristics | 38 | |
| 4208732997 | poetic diction | elevated language/specialized vocabulary | 39 | |
| 4208733981 | quatrain | stanza consisting of four lines | 40 | |
| 4208735121 | refrain | lines repeated at intervals in a song or poem | 41 | |
| 4208737540 | rhyme | two or more words that contain identical or similar vowel sound | 42 | |
| 4208740611 | rhyme scheme | recurrent pattern of rhyme | 43 | |
| 4208742492 | simile | comparison of two things using like, as, resembles | 44 | |
| 4208743891 | sonnet | poem of fourteen lines, usually with ten syllables per line | 45 | |
| 4208745419 | synechdoche | figure of speech in which a part of something is made to represent the whole, or vice versa | 46 | |
| 4208747812 | terminal refrain | group of repeated lines following a stanza | 47 | |
| 4208749016 | theme | the central topic a text writes to; what the work SAYS about the subject | 48 | |
| 4208751633 | tone | attitude of a writer towards a subject or audience | 49 | |
| 4208753627 | understatement | the presentation of something as smaller or less important than it actually is | 50 | |
| 4208756227 | vulgate | lowest level of diction; common/casual | 51 | |
| 4208784012 | slant rhyme | almost rhyme; either assonance or consonance in place of true rhyme | 52 | |
| 4208793700 | stream of consciousness | style of writing that portrays the inner workings of a character's mind | 53 | |
| 4208796121 | surrealism | allowing subconscious or dream-like imagery to lead the poem | 54 | |
| 4208801494 | symbol | a person, place, or thing which has meaning for itself but also stands for something more than itself | 55 |
