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| 5079295116 | allusion | a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work; particularly something well-known | 0 | |
| 5079295117 | antithesis | a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words or ideas for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness | 1 | |
| 5079297560 | connotation | what a word suggests beyond its basic definition | 2 | |
| 5079297561 | denotation | the basic definition of a word | 3 | |
| 5079300455 | diction | the use of words in a literally work | 4 | |
| 5079300456 | extended metaphor | implied analogy or comparison carried through a stanza or an entire poem | 5 | |
| 5079302593 | figurative language | writing that uses figures of speech instead of literal language | 6 | |
| 5079302594 | hyperbole | outrageous exaggeration | 7 | |
| 5079302595 | imagery | images of a literary work; the sensory details | 8 | |
| 5079304913 | irony | contrast between actual and suggested meaning | 9 | |
| 5079304914 | metaphor | comparison without like, or, or than | 10 | |
| 5079307826 | onomatopoeia | words whose sound suggest their meaning | 11 | |
| 5079307827 | oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression | 12 | |
| 5079310114 | parallelism | similar grammatical structure within lines | 13 | |
| 5079310115 | parody | a humorous imitation of another, usually serious, work | 14 | |
| 5079312667 | personification | a metaphor that gives humanlike qualities to inanimate things | 15 | |
| 5079312668 | pun | a play on words | 16 | |
| 5079312669 | rhyme | close similarity or identity of sound | 17 | |
| 5079314526 | sarcasm | a type of irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it | 18 | |
| 5079314527 | satire | writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval | 19 | |
| 5079314528 | simile | a directly expressed comparison; uses like or as | 20 | |
| 5079316831 | speaker | the voice used by the author to speak the poem | 21 | |
| 5079316832 | stanza | a grouping of poetic lines, set off by space | 22 | |
| 5079318712 | symbol | something that is simultaneously itself and something else | 23 | |
| 5079318713 | syntax | ordering of words into patterns or sentence | 24 | |
| 5079318714 | tone | manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude | 25 | |
| 5079321812 | understatement | the opposite of hyperbole; irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is | 26 | |
| 5079321813 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 27 | |
| 5079324089 | elegy | a sustained and formal poetic meditation on death or another solemn theme | 28 | |
| 5079324090 | free verse | poetry that does not conform to established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza but is still rhythmical | 29 | |
| 5079326546 | lyric poem | short poem presenting a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings | 30 | |
| 5079326547 | narrative poem | non-dramatic poem which tells a story or presents a narrative | 31 | |
| 5079330095 | ode | lengthy poem expressing lofty emotions in a dignified style | 32 | |
| 5079330096 | pastoral | poetry about rural lives and landscapes | 33 | |
| 5079332425 | sestina | 36-line poem with 7 stanzas and 6 repeating words | 34 | |
| 5079332426 | sonnet | 14-line iambic pentameter poem | 35 | |
| 5079332427 | villanelle | a 19-line poem that is cyclical in nature with six stanzas and two repeating lines | 36 |
