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| 8715975170 | Alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words | 0 | |
| 8715975171 | Allusion | A reference in a work of literature to something outside of the work | 1 | |
| 8715975172 | Antithesis | A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas. | 2 | |
| 8715975173 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly as though they are there. | 3 | |
| 8715975174 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 4 | |
| 8715975175 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 5 | |
| 8715975176 | Cacophony | A harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones | 6 | |
| 8715975177 | Caesura | a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line | 7 | |
| 8715975178 | Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds in a group of words | 8 | |
| 8715975179 | Couplets | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme usually at the end | 9 | |
| 8715975180 | devices of sound | the techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry | 10 | |
| 8715975181 | Diction | The use of words in a literary work | 11 | |
| 8715975182 | didactic poem | a poem which is intended primarily to teach a lesson | 12 | |
| 8715975183 | Dramatic poem | A poem which employs a dramatic form or some element or elements of dramatic techniques as a means of achieving poetic ends | 13 | |
| 8715975184 | Elegy | a sustained and formal poem setting forth meditations on death or another solemn theme | 14 | |
| 8715975185 | end-stopped | a line with a pause at the end | 15 | |
| 8715975186 | Enjambment | The continuation from of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next. | 16 | |
| 8715975187 | extended metaphor | an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem | 17 | |
| 8715975188 | Euphony | pleasant, harmonious sound | 18 | |
| 8715975189 | eye rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from the pronunciation | 19 | |
| 8715975190 | figurative language | writing that uses figures of speech such as metaphor, irony, and simile | 20 | |
| 8715975191 | Free verse | poetry which is not written in traditional meter but is still rhythmical. ex: Walt Whitman's poems | 21 | |
| 8715975192 | Imagery | The images of a literary work; the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work. | 22 | |
| 8715975193 | Irony | The contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning | 23 | |
| 8715975194 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | 24 | |
| 8715975195 | lyric poem | any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings | 25 | |
| 8715975196 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 26 | |
| 8715975197 | Meter | The repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry | 27 | |
| 8715975198 | Metonymy | A figure of speech that substitutes a word with a different but closely associated word | 28 | |
| 8715975199 | mixed metaphor | the mingling of one metaphor with another immediately following with which the first is incongruous | 29 | |
| 8715975200 | Hyperbole | A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration | 30 | |
| 8715975201 | narritive poem | a poem that tells a story | 31 | |
| 8715975202 | Octave | 8 line stanza | 32 | |
| 8715975203 | Onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds | 33 | |
| 8715975204 | Oxymoron | A form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression | 34 | |
| 8715975205 | Paradox | A situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least make sense. | 35 | |
| 8715975206 | Parallelism | A similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry | 36 | |
| 8715975207 | paraphrase | a restatement of a text in a different form or in different words, often for the purpose of clarity | 37 | |
| 8715975208 | Personification | A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics | 38 | |
| 8715975209 | Poetic foot | A group of syllables containing one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables | 39 | |
| 8715975210 | Pun | A play on words | 40 | |
| 8715975211 | Quatrain | 4 line stanza with any combination of rhymes | 41 | |
| 8715975212 | Refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. | 42 | |
| 8722178657 | Rhyme | Close similarity or identity of sound between accented syllables occupying corresponding positions in two or more lines. | 43 | |
| 8722178658 | Sarcasm | harsh, cutting language or tone intended to ridicule | 44 | |
| 8722178659 | Satire | Writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule | 45 | |
| 8722178660 | Scansion | A system for describing the meter of a poem by identifying the number and the types of feet per line | 46 | |
| 8722178661 | Sestet | 6 line stanza | 47 | |
| 8722178662 | Similie | A comparison using like or as | 48 | |
| 8722178663 | Sonnet | 14 line poem iambic pentameter | 49 | |
| 8722178664 | Stanza | Usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme | 50 | |
| 8722178665 | Structure | The arrangement of materials within a work. | 51 | |
| 8722178666 | Style | The mode of expression in language; the characteristic manner of expression of an author. | 52 | |
| 8722178667 | Symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else | 53 | |
| 8722178668 | Synecdoche | A form of metaphor which in mentioning a part signifies the whole. | 54 | |
| 8722178669 | Syntax | The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses, and sentences. | 55 | |
| 8722178670 | Theme | The main idea of the story | 56 | |
| 8722178671 | Tone | The manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude | 57 | |
| 8722178672 | Understatement | Opposite of hyperbole | 58 | |
| 8722178673 | Rhythm | Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | 59 |
