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| 5964692179 | Tone | Author's implicit attitude towards reader or people, events, etc in a work. Revealed by the elements of style. | 0 | |
| 5964703156 | Syntax | Ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns (ie. phrases, clauses). Often used to place emphasis on a word. | 1 | |
| 5964709600 | Persona | Speaker created by the writer to tell a story/speak in a poem. Separate self: not a character, does not reflect author's personal voice. | 2 | |
| 5964716310 | Speaker | Voice used by an author to tell a story. Often a created identity, not necessarily equated with the author. | 3 | |
| 5964736456 | Free Verse (open form) | Nonconformity to established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza. Uses speech patterns, grammar, emphasis and breath pauses to decide line breaks. Usually does not rhyme. | 4 | |
| 5964756911 | Stanza | A grouping of lines, set off by a space, that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme. | 5 | |
| 5964761418 | Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of end rhymes. Mapped out by noting patterns where the first rhyme sound is a, the second is b, etc. | 6 | |
| 5964773136 | Couplet | 2 consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter. | 7 | |
| 5964780384 | Heroic Couplet | A couplet in rhymed iambic pentameter. | 8 | |
| 5964787624 | Quatrain | A four line stanza, can have various meters and rhyme schemes. | 9 | |
| 5964790052 | Sonnet | Fixed form of lyric poetry with 14 lines (often in iambic pentameter). Two types: Italian/Petrarchan and English. | 10 | |
| 5964804028 | Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet | Divided into an octave (typically rhymes abbaabba) and a sestet (which can have varying rhyme schemes). Octave tends to present situation or problem which the sestet comments upon or resolves. | 11 | |
| 5964832538 | Shakespearean (English) Sonnet | Organized into 3 quatrains and a couplet, typically rhyming abab, cdcd, efef, gg. Has flexibility with thematic breaks but most pronounced break tends to come with concluding couplet. | 12 | |
| 5964849143 | Octave | A stanza consisting of 8 lines. | 13 | |
| 5964850568 | Sestet | A stanza consisting of exactly 6 lines. | 14 | |
| 5964856500 | Villanelle | A fixed form of poetry consisting of 19 lines of any length divided into 6 stanzas: 5 tercets and a concluding quatrain. The 1st and 3rd lines of the initial tercet rhyme and this rhyme is repeated in the subsequent tercets (aba) and the final 2 lines of the quatrain (abaa). Line 1 appears in its entirety in lines 6, 12 and 18. Likewise for line 3 in lines 9, 15, and 19 | 15 | |
| 5964894047 | Elegy | A mournful, contemplative lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead, usually ending in a consolation. May also be a serious, meditative poem to express a speaker's melancholy thoughts. | 16 | |
| 5964895944 | Ode | A relatively long lyric poem that often expresses lofty emotions in a dignified style. Characterized by a serious topic (truth, freedom, meaning of life) and tends to have a serious tone. | 17 | |
| 5964895945 | Pastoral | A work of literature presenting an idealized version of country life. | 18 | |
| 5964943031 | End Rhyme | Rhyme at the end of the lines. | 19 | |
| 5964945400 | Internal Rhyme | Places at least one of the rhymed words within the line. | 20 | |
| 5964952959 | Masculine Rhyme | The rhyming of single-syllable words. Also occurs in words with more than one syllable when the same sound occurs in the final stressed syllable. | 21 | |
| 5964968282 | Feminine Rhyme | Rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more identical unstressed syllables. | 22 | |
| 5964976903 | Near Rhyme (slant rhyme) | The sounds are almost but not exactly alike. | 23 | |
| 5964983130 | Onomatopoeia | The use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes (buzz, rattle, bang). Can also be more than one word. | 24 | |
| 5964989276 | Alliteration | Repetition of same consonant sounds, based on sound not spelling. | 25 | |
| 5964998651 | Assonance | Repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same (aslEEp under a trEE) | 26 | |
| 5965006820 | Consonance | A type of near rhyme that consists of identical consonant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds (home and same) | 27 | |
| 5965011517 | Euphony | Language that is smooth and musically pleasant to the ear. | 28 | |
| 5965011518 | Cacophony | Language that is discordant and difficult to pronounce. | 29 | |
| 5965667250 | Implied Metaphor | Subtle comparison where the two items being compared are not specifically explained. | 30 | |
| 5965672014 | Extended Metaphor | Sustained comparison where all or part of a poem consists of a series of related metaphors. | 31 | |
| 5965676517 | Personification | Metaphor where human characteristics are applied to nonhuman things. | 32 | |
| 5965676518 | Synecdoche | Metaphor in which part of something is used to signify the whole. | 33 | |
| 5965677492 | Metonymy | Metaphor in which something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it. (ie. crown for king) | 34 | |
| 5965686051 | Hyperbole | An exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true. | 35 | |
| 5965692482 | Understatement | Figure of speech that says less than intended, usually has an ironic effect. | 36 | |
| 5965694421 | Paradox | A statement that appears to be contradictory but then, upon closer inspection, turns out to make sense. | 37 | |
| 5965695522 | Oxymoron | A condensed form of paradox in which 2 contradictory words are used together. | 38 | |
| 5965699169 | Diction | A writer's choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, etc. which combine to help create meaning. | 39 | |
| 5965702460 | Formal Diction | Dignified, impersonal, and elevated use of language - lofty tone | 40 | |
| 5965705002 | Informal Diction | Plain, everyday language (slang, contractions, etc) | 41 | |
| 5965708474 | Denotation | Dictionary meaning of a word | 42 | |
| 5965709624 | Connotation | Associations and implications beyond the literal meaning of a word. | 43 | |
| 5965719115 | Rhythm | Recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. | 44 | |
| 5965722441 | Stress/Accent | Emphasis (or accent) given a syllable in pronunciation. | 45 | |
| 5965725555 | Meter | Rhythmic pattern of stresses that recurs in a poem. Rising meter: metrical feet which move from unstressed to stressed Falling meter: metrical feet which move from stressed to unstressed. | 46 | |
| 5965725556 | Foot | Metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured. Usually consists of 1 stressed and 1-2 unstressed syllables. | 47 | |
| 5965740346 | Iamb | 1 unstressed then 1 stressed | 48 | |
| 5965740347 | Trochee | 1 stressed then 1 unstressed | 49 | |
| 5965740348 | Anapest | 2 unstressed then 1 stressed | 50 | |
| 5965740870 | Dactyl | 1 stressed then 2 unstressed | 51 | |
| 5965743720 | Spondee | 2 stressed - not a sustained metrical foot, used more for variety or emphasis | 52 | |
| 5965750244 | Line | Sequence of words printed as a separate entity on the page. Usually measure by number of feet they contain (monometer-octameter) | 53 | |
| 5965751685 | Iambic Pentameter | Metrical pattern in poetry with 5 iambic feet per line | 54 | |
| 5965756780 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter. | 55 | |
| 5965757736 | Caesura | Pause within a line of poetry that contributes to the rhythm of the line. Indicated by a double vertical line. | 56 | |
| 5965763636 | End-stopped line | A poetic line with a pause at the end. Often marked by punctuation. | 57 | |
| 5965768611 | Enjambment | When one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning | 58 | |
| 6737663655 | Allegory | A story in which people, things and events have another meaning | 59 | |
| 6737663656 | Apostrophe | Direct address to someone/something that is not actually there | 60 | |
| 6737663657 | Didactic | Explicitly instructive and intending to teach | 61 | |
| 6737663658 | Epigram | Brief and pointed form of verse | 62 | |
| 6737663659 | Euphemism | Indirection to avoid offensive bluntness i.e deceased for dead | 63 | |
| 6737663660 | Alludion | Reference in a work of literature to something outside of the work | 64 | |
| 6737663661 | Soliloquy | Monologue in which the character is alone and speaking his/her thoughts aloud | 65 | |
| 6737663662 | Syllogism | Two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them | 66 | |
| 6738042425 | Antecedenr | Word, phrase, clause to which pronoun refers -comes before | 67 | |
| 6738042426 | Modernist | Writing from WW1 to pre-WW2 | 68 |
