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| 9673859903 | Denotation | Dictionary meaning(s) of the word | 0 | |
| 9673863325 | Connotation | Suggested beyond what is expressed | 1 | |
| 9673866998 | Imagery | representation through language of sense experience | 2 | |
| 9673874542 | Auditory imagery | Image that represents a sound | 3 | |
| 9673882165 | Olfactory imagery | Image that represents a smell | 4 | |
| 9673885809 | Gustatory imagery | image that represents a taste | 5 | |
| 9673892710 | Organic imagery | Image that represents an internal sensation (hunger, thirst, nausea) | 6 | |
| 9673901804 | Kinesthetic imagery | Image that represents movement or tension | 7 | |
| 9673907035 | Figure of speech | Any way of saying something other than the ordinary way | 8 | |
| 9673912806 | Figurative language | Language using figures of speech | 9 | |
| 9673914355 | Metaphor | An implied comparison | 10 | |
| 9673917235 | Similie | A comparison using a word or phrase (like,as, than, similar to, resembles, seems) | 11 | |
| 9673927013 | Personification | Giving human attributes to an animal, object, or concepts | 12 | |
| 9673930509 | Apostrophe | Addressing someone or a thing that cannot answer back (someone absent, dead, nonhuman | 13 | |
| 9673941104 | Synecdoche | Use of part to describe the whole | 14 | |
| 9673945339 | Metonymy | The use of something related for the thing actually meant | 15 | |
| 9673949661 | Symbol | Something that means more than what it is | 16 | |
| 9673955716 | Allegory | A narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface | 17 | |
| 9673966453 | Paradox | An apparent contradiction that is true | 18 | |
| 9673968535 | Overstatement | Exaggeration (describing something as more that it actually is) | 19 | |
| 9673972269 | Hyperbole (literary term) | Exaggeration | 20 | |
| 9673986465 | Understatement | Saying less than one meant | 21 | |
| 9673989857 | Verbal irony | Saying the opposite of what one means | 22 | |
| 9673994544 | Sarcasm | Bitter or cutting speech | 23 | |
| 9673996520 | Satire | Ridicule of human folly or vice | 24 | |
| 9674001467 | Irony of situation | Discrepancy exists between actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate | 25 | |
| 9674011064 | Dramatic irony | Discrepancy between what speaker says and what poem means | 26 | |
| 9674016659 | Allusion | A reference to something in history or previous literature | 27 | |
| 9674023736 | Tone | Writer's or speaker's attitude about the subject, audience, or self | 28 | |
| 9674032185 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds (tried and true; safe and sound) | 29 | |
| 9674045007 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds (mad as hatter; time out of mind) | 30 | |
| 9674051846 | Consonance | Repetition of final consonant sounds (odds and ends; short and sweet) | 31 | |
| 9674062624 | Rhyme | Repetition of accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds | 32 | |
| 9674074016 | Masculine rhyme | Rhyme sound involves only one syllable (decks and sex; retort and support) | 33 | |
| 9674086310 | Feminine rhyme | Rhyme sound involves two or more syllables (turtle and fertile; spitefully and delightfully) | 34 | |
| 9674093812 | Internal rhyme | When one or more rhyming words are within a line | 35 | |
| 9674097546 | End rhyme | When rhyming words are at the ends of lines | 36 | |
| 9674104963 | Slant rhyme | Words with any sound similarity | 37 | |
| 9674107050 | Rhythm | Wavelike recurrence of motion or sound | 38 | |
| 9674111941 | Meter | Kind of rhythm we can tap our foot to | 39 | |
| 9674118910 | Verse | Metrical language | 40 | |
| 9674120581 | Prose | Unmetrical language | 41 | |
| 9674124239 | Iamb | Unstressed stressed | 42 | |
| 9674131732 | Troche | Stresses unstressed | 43 | |
| 9674136379 | Anapest | Unstressed unstressed stressed | 44 | |
| 9674145788 | Dactylic | Stressed unstressed unstressed | 45 | |
| 9674149525 | Spondee | Stressed stressed | 46 | |
| 9674152507 | Amphibranch | Unstressed stressed unstressed | 47 | |
| 9674158934 | Caesura | A pause in the middle of a line (due to punctuation or natural phrasing/syntax) | 48 | |
| 9674167118 | Monometer | One foot | 49 | |
| 9674170395 | Dimeter | Two feet | 50 | |
| 9674171986 | Trimeter | Three feet | 51 | |
| 9674176556 | Tetrameter | Four feet | 52 | |
| 9674178350 | Pentameter | Five feet | 53 | |
| 9674181048 | Hexameter | Six feet | 54 | |
| 9674182434 | Heptameter | Seven feet | 55 | |
| 9674189400 | Octameter | Eight feet | 56 | |
| 9674193484 | Scansion | Process of measuring verse | 57 | |
| 9674196288 | Free verse | Close to common speech | 58 | |
| 9674199864 | Euphony | Any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds | 59 | |
| 9674210216 | Cacophony | Harsh confusing disagreeable sounds | 60 | |
| 9674217973 | Continuous form | Lines follow each other without formal grouping | 61 | |
| 9674222694 | Stanzas | Repeated units having the same number of lines | 62 | |
| 9674232964 | Fixed form | Pattern tha applies to whole poem | 63 | |
| 9674240950 | Limerick | A humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba | 64 | |
| 9674260750 | Italian sonnet | Eight lines, six lines | 65 | |
| 9674263347 | Octave | Eight lines | 66 | |
| 9674275411 | Sestet | Six lines | 67 | |
| 9674277153 | English sonnet | Three quatrians and a concluding couplet | 68 |
