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| 9885434856 | Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds between different consonants | 0 | |
| 9885437709 | Ballad | a long narrative poem that presents a single dramatic episode, which is often tragic or violent | 1 | |
| 9885441171 | Folk ballad | one of the earliest forms of literature usually sung and was passed down orally from singer to singer its author is generally unknown its form and melody often changed according to a singer's preference | 2 | |
| 9885448685 | Literary ballad | art ballad a ballad that imitates the form and the spirit of the folk ballad, but is more polished and uses a higher level of poetic diction | 3 | |
| 9885452764 | Blank verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 4 | |
| 9885456149 | Burlesque | a broad parody | 5 | |
| 9885458314 | Classicism | the principles and styles admired in the classics of Greek and Roman literature such as objectivity, sensibility, restraint, and formality | 6 | |
| 9885462533 | Conceit | an elaborate figure of speech in which two seemingly dissimilar things or situations are compared | 7 | |
| 9885466028 | Consonance | the repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after different vowel sounds | 8 | |
| 9885470564 | Conundrum | a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun may also be a paradox or difficult problem | 9 | |
| 9885474349 | Four modes of discourse | Description Exposition Narration Persuasion | 10 | |
| 9885476496 | Epigram | a concise, witty saying in poetry or prose that either stands alone or is part of a larger work may also refer to a short poem of this type | 11 | |
| 9885483191 | Euphony | a succession of harmonious sounds used in poetry or prose | 12 | |
| 9885486011 | Exemplum | a brief tale used in medieval times to illustrate a sermon or teach a lesson | 13 | |
| 9885489964 | Foot | the combination of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up the basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry | 14 | |
| 9885494896 | Anapest | two unstressed followed by one stressed syllable | 15 | |
| 9885496791 | Dactyl | one stressed followed by two unstressed syllables | 16 | |
| 9885499179 | Iamb | one unstressed followed by one stressed syllable | 17 | |
| 9885502076 | Spondee | two successive stressed syllables | 18 | |
| 9885504117 | Trochee | one stressed followed by one unstressed syllable | 19 | |
| 9885505957 | Free verse | poetry that is written without a regular meter usually without rhyme | 20 | |
| 9885507818 | Loose sentence | a sentence that is grammatically complete before its end | 21 | |
| 9885510395 | Lyric | a type of melodious, imaginative, and subjective poetry that is usually short and personal, expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker rather than telling a story | 22 | |
| 9885568686 | Meter | the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry | 23 | |
| 9885571628 | Metonymy | a figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is associated | 24 | |
| 9885576592 | Naturalism | a literary movement that grew out of realism in France, the United States, and England in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries portrays humans as having no free will, being driven by the natural forces of heredity, environment, and animalistic urges over which they have no control | 25 | |
| 9885588797 | Ode | a long lyric poem, usually serious and elevated in tone often written to praise someone or something | 26 | |
| 9885591712 | Periodic sentence | a sentence that is not grammatically complete until its last phrase | 27 | |
| 9885595693 | Petrarchan sonnet | composed of an octave with an abba abba rhyme scheme and ending in a sestet with a cde cde rhyme scheme | 28 | |
| 9885602124 | Refrain | a line or group of lines that is periodically repeated throughout a poem | 29 | |
| 9885604873 | Masculine rhyme | the rhyme sound is the last syllable of a line | 30 | |
| 9885606991 | Feminine rhyme | the accented syllable is followed by an unaccented syllable | 31 | |
| 9885609585 | Synechdoche | a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole | 32 | |
| 9885613212 | Villanelle | a lyric poem consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain | 33 |
