4947248251 | Anachronism | The thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned | 0 | |
4947248252 | Approximate Rhyme | When two words have the same vowel sounds but end with different sounding consonants | 1 | |
4947248253 | Aubade | A poem or piece of music appropriate to the dawn or early morning | 2 | |
4947248254 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 3 | |
4947248255 | Catharsis | The process of releasing strong or repressed emotions | 4 | |
4947248256 | Couplet | Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit | 5 | |
4947248257 | Denouement | The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resloved | 6 | |
4947248258 | Didactic poetry | Poetry that instructs, either in terms of morals or by providing knowledge of philosophy, religion, arts, science, or skills | 7 | |
4947248259 | Elegy | A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead | 8 | |
4947248260 | English sonnet | ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, iambic pentameter | 9 | |
4947248261 | Euphony | The quality of being pleasing to the ear | 10 | |
4947248262 | Farce | A comic dramatic work using horseplay that includes crude characterization and ludicrous situations | 11 | |
4947248263 | Italian sonnet | ABBAABBA | 12 | |
4947248264 | Motif | A distinctive feature or dominant idea in a literary work | 13 | |
4947248265 | Octave | Eight lines of iambic pentameter, ABBAABBA | 14 | |
4947248266 | Parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 15 | |
4947248267 | Quatrain | A stanza of four rhymes | 16 | |
4947248268 | Scansion | The action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm | 17 | |
4947248269 | Sestet | The last six lines of a sonnet | 18 | |
4947248270 | Terza Rima | An arrangement of triplets that rhyme ABA BCB CDC | 19 |
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