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| 9258871851 | allegory | a story with a symbolic representation | 0 | |
| 9258880253 | alliteration | repetition with the first sound | 1 | |
| 9258881997 | allusion | a reference to history, culture, pop culture, religion, literature, etc. | 2 | |
| 9258886948 | anecdote | a short, amusing story | 3 | |
| 9258889780 | antithesis | an exact oposite | 4 | |
| 9258893762 | apostrophe | talking to someone or something that isn't there | 5 | |
| 9258896287 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds in a word or phrase | 6 | |
| 9258901126 | ballad | narrative poem, often romantic | 7 | |
| 9258903657 | blank verse | a poem that does not rhyme | 8 | |
| 9258910080 | caesura | a pause in the middle of a verse | 9 | |
| 9258911766 | conceit | an extended metaphor with complex logic | 10 | |
| 9258913604 | consonance | repetition of the consonant sound in a word or phrase | 11 | |
| 9258916665 | couplet | 2 lines in a poem | 12 | |
| 9258918792 | diction | word choice | 13 | |
| 9258920719 | elegy | a melonchology or pensive poem written about death | 14 | |
| 9258927076 | enjambment | the same thought continued on a different line in poetry | 15 | |
| 9258930146 | exposition | background information | 16 | |
| 9258931947 | eye rhyme (sight rhyme) | when something that looks like it rhymes but it doesn't ex (lint and pint) | 17 | |
| 9258943046 | free verse | a poem with no rules, rhyme, or meter. | 18 | |
| 9258947384 | haiku | a three lined poem that doesn't rhyme, format goes 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables. | 19 | |
| 9258956512 | hyperbole | an exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally | 20 | |
| 9258961480 | iambic pentameter | a poetry pattern or beat, 5 feet in a line, 2 syllables per feet | 21 | |
| 9258970827 | imagery | creating a picture for a reader using all 5 senses | 22 | |
| 9258975474 | juxtaposition | putting 2 things next to each other in order to create a greater effect (usually opposites) | 23 | |
| 9258983767 | limerick | a 5 line poem (AA BB A) | 24 | |
| 9258990321 | litotes | multiple negatives used on purpose (ex: you're not wrong) | 25 | |
| 9259004343 | lyric | form and musical quality of a song | 26 | |
| 9259007116 | metaphor | a figure of speech that is a direct comparison | 27 | |
| 9259011099 | meter | the beat or rhythm of a poem | 28 | |
| 9259013378 | metonymy | using the name of something for something that it is related to | 29 | |
| 9259016849 | ode | a poem that expresses strong love and admiration for something or someone | 30 | |
| 9259019558 | onomatopoeia | a word that imitates a sound | 31 | |
| 9259024134 | oxymoron | two contradictory words (ex: bittersweet) | 32 | |
| 9259027249 | paradox | an idea that seems to be self contradicting but it is not (ex: the more I exercise, the less tired I am) | 33 | |
| 9259032762 | personification | giving lifelike characteristics to non living objects | 34 | |
| 9259037900 | prosody | the study of the metrical structure of the verse | 35 | |
| 9259040486 | quatrain | a group of four lines together in poetry | 36 | |
| 9259042623 | refrain | in a poem, a phrase or verse that is repeated, like a chorus in music. | 37 | |
| 9259046147 | requiem | a poem of remembrance, often about death. | 38 | |
| 9259049375 | scansion | the analysis of the meter of verse | 39 | |
| 9259052204 | similie | a comparison using like or as | 40 | |
| 9259053859 | solioquy | one persona talking on stage alone, talking to themselves or the audience | 41 | |
| 9259058556 | sonnet | 14 lined poem often written in iambic pentameter using ABAB pattern, last couplet is CC, last line reveals meaning of poem | 42 | |
| 9259064818 | stanza | a paragraph in poetry | 43 | |
| 9259066601 | synesthesia | when a stimulus is applied to another sense (ex: you're so pretty it hurts) | 44 | |
| 9259071477 | synedoche | cousins with metonymy, a part of something that represents the whole (ex: head count, set of wheels) | 45 | |
| 9259086543 | syntax | a sentence structure | 46 | |
| 9259088262 | trope | a word or expression used in a figurative sentence | 47 | |
| 9259089664 | verse | a section of poetry | 48 | |
| 9259091117 | villanelle | a poem that has 19 lines and a very fixed form, has 5 tercets. (ex: do not go gentle into that good night) | 49 |
