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4947248251AnachronismThe thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned0
4947248252Approximate RhymeWhen two words have the same vowel sounds but end with different sounding consonants1
4947248253AubadeA poem or piece of music appropriate to the dawn or early morning2
4947248254CacophonyA harsh, discordant mixture of sounds3
4947248255CatharsisThe process of releasing strong or repressed emotions4
4947248256CoupletTwo lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit5
4947248257DenouementThe final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resloved6
4947248258Didactic poetryPoetry that instructs, either in terms of morals or by providing knowledge of philosophy, religion, arts, science, or skills7
4947248259ElegyA poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead8
4947248260English sonnetABAB CDCD EFEF GG, iambic pentameter9
4947248261EuphonyThe quality of being pleasing to the ear10
4947248262FarceA comic dramatic work using horseplay that includes crude characterization and ludicrous situations11
4947248263Italian sonnetABBAABBA12
4947248264MotifA distinctive feature or dominant idea in a literary work13
4947248265OctaveEight lines of iambic pentameter, ABBAABBA14
4947248266ParableA simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson15
4947248267QuatrainA stanza of four rhymes16
4947248268ScansionThe action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm17
4947248269SestetThe last six lines of a sonnet18
4947248270Terza RimaAn arrangement of triplets that rhyme ABA BCB CDC19

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