8813178358 | Literature | the communication of an idea according to the established standards of a given medium | 0 | |
8813179917 | Poetry | a literary form employing figurative devices, meter, and rhyme to communicate an idea | 1 | |
8813182359 | Verse | written or spoken material employing rhyme and/or meter | 2 | |
8813184104 | Lyric | introspective verse (analyzing one's own metal or emotional process) | 3 | |
8813190706 | Narrative/ballad | story in verse (Ballad are short narratives) | 4 | |
8813193151 | Sonnet | 14 line verse | 5 | |
8813194519 | Ode | elaborate, dignified verse (formal) | 6 | |
8813245819 | Blank verse | rhymed lines in iambic pentameter | 7 | |
8813251141 | Free Verse | irregular rhyme and meter (Walt Whitman) | 8 | |
8813388128 | Dramatic Monologue | Verse monologue where in speaker unwilling unmasks his true self | 9 | |
8813392602 | Elesy | Meditative verse lamenting death | 10 | |
8813394814 | Idyll | lyric idealizing Shepard/country life | 11 | |
8813396350 | Villanelle | 19 line French Verse form strictly calculated to appear spontaneous | 12 | |
8813400088 | Conceit | extended metaphor of unlike objects for strong effect | 13 | |
8813403854 | metonym | metaphorical intro of person or object | 14 | |
8813402497 | Apostrophe | addresses of personification | 15 | |
8813406862 | metonymy | metaphorical intro of person or object | 16 | |
8813411892 | synecdoche | metaphorical devices employing partial manifestation of whole | 17 | |
8813414253 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 18 | |
8813417310 | litotes | understatement attained by negativing an antonym (ex: you're not bad) | 19 | |
8813418829 | symbolism | tangible manifestation of an idea | 20 | |
8813419447 | imagery | sensory descriptive language | 21 | |
8813420165 | paradox | apparent contradiction | 22 | |
8813420718 | oxymoron | employment of contradictory language | 23 | |
8813422793 | Meter | poem's rhythm as established by stressed/unstressed syllables | 24 | |
8813424547 | Foot | a metric unit according to stressed and unstressed syllables | 25 | |
8813425780 | Scansion | analysis of metric feet to determine meters | 26 | |
8813428877 | Number of metric feet (1-8) | monometer: one foot dimeter: two feet trimeter: three feet tetrameter: four feet pentameter: five feet Hexometer: six feet heptmeter: seven feet octometer: eight feet | 27 | |
8813432706 | Iamb (i AMB) | U / unstressed stressed (balloon, saloon, exist, predict) | 28 | |
8813437769 | trouchee | / U stressed unstressed (soda, token, native, render) | 29 | |
8813441182 | spondee | / / stressed stressed (manmade, football) | 30 | |
8813443986 | anapest | U U / unstressed unstressed stressed (contradict ) | 31 | |
8813446116 | dactylic | / U U stressed unstressed unstressed (maniac, evidence) | 32 | |
8813452660 | rhyme | repetition of like sounds of regular intervals | 33 | |
8813453870 | end rhyme | rhyme at the end of the line | 34 | |
8813454720 | internal rhyme | rhyme with in a line | 35 | |
8813455612 | masculine rhyme | rhyme of only last accented syllable | 36 | |
8813458182 | feminine rhyme | rhyme of two syllables the 1st accented | 37 | |
8813459023 | assonance | repetition of vowels | 38 | |
8813459781 | consonance | repetition of constant sounds | 39 | |
8813461292 | alliteration | repetition of initial sounds | 40 | |
8813463154 | onomatopoeia | sounds echo sense | 41 | |
8813465184 | euphony | compatible, harmonious sounds | 42 | |
8813465575 | cacophony | harsh, grating sounds | 43 |
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