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| 3421018941 | Ode | lyric poem of some length, serious in subject and dignified in style | 0 | |
| 3421028518 | Narrative verse | a poem that tells a story | 1 | |
| 3421028519 | Motif | recurring image, character, verbal pattern, etc. | 2 | |
| 3421034280 | Meter | pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | 3 | |
| 3421039850 | Tone | author's attitude toward subject and/or audience | 4 | |
| 3421048617 | Terza rima | aba bcc cdc etc. rhyme scheme | 5 | |
| 3421058399 | Tercet | a group of three lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme with the adjacent group or groups of three lines | 6 | |
| 3421089106 | Syntax | the choice of words and their placement in sentences (actual order of words) | 7 | |
| 3421217818 | Foot | group of syllables forming metrical unit | 8 | |
| 3421222218 | Figurative language | makes use of figures of speech or literary devices | 9 | |
| 3421351401 | Fable | narrative illustrating a moral truth | 10 | |
| 3421478550 | Epithet | term used to characterize a person (Jack the Ripper) | 11 | |
| 3421664438 | Epitaph | death inscription (as seen on tombstones) | 12 | |
| 3421699839 | Epiphany | "showing forth" (Greek), an insight | 13 | |
| 3421710123 | Epic | extended narrative poem, exalted in style and heroic in theme | 14 | |
| 3421753121 | End-stopped line | end of phrase or sentence coincides with end of line in poetry | 15 | |
| 3421753122 | Elegy | dignified poem mourning death | 16 | |
| 3421755175 | Dissonance | juxtaposition of jarring sounds | 17 | |
| 3421755176 | Diction | the choice of words and their placement in sentences (why the author chose specific words) | 18 | |
| 3421758072 | Denouement | events following the climax and the falling action (resolution) | 19 | |
| 3422439772 | Couplet | two lines of verse, usually rhymed and of same meter | 20 | |
| 3423738399 | Consonance | close repetition of identical consonant sounds around different vowels (flip-flop) or at the end of hidden words (hid-bed) | 21 | |
| 3423747463 | Caesura | pause in rhyme, dictated by rhythm | 22 | |
| 3423749397 | Ballad | narrative poem, originally sung | 23 | |
| 3423752624 | Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | 24 | |
| 3423774313 | Apostrophe | directly addressing an absent or imaginary person | 25 | |
| 3423774314 | Allusion | a brief reference to familiar person/thing/incident (often Biblical, historical, mythological, or literary) | 26 | |
| 3423774315 | Alliteration | close repetition of consonant sounds at beginning of words | 27 | |
| 3423776203 | Metaphor | two unlike objects compared | 28 | |
| 3423805658 | Metonymy | figure of speech, name of object substituted for another ("my light [vision] is spent" | 29 | |
| 3423815157 | Litotes | understatement (aka meiosis) | 30 | |
| 3423817125 | Imagery | language which evokes sensory experiences; engaging sight, smell, taste, sound, etc. | 31 | |
| 3423822374 | Heroic couplet | pair of rhymed iambic pentameter lines | 32 | |
| 3423826250 | Genre | literary type or class, specific or general | 33 | |
| 3423829712 | Free verse | lacks regular meter and line length (relies on natural rhythm; most modern poetry) | 34 | |
| 3423836327 | Form | fixed metrical arrangement | 35 | |
| 3423839212 | Symbol | something that stands for something else, but also exists as an entity in itself | 36 | |
| 3423845148 | Syllogism | a deductive logical argument, formulated around one major premise, one minor premise and a conclusion (All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal.) | 37 | |
| 3423856985 | Style | the qualities that make up a literary personality or way of writing | 38 | |
| 3423861735 | Stanza | group of lines that form division of a poem | 39 | |
| 3423868353 | Shakespearean sonnet | 14 lines, iambic pentameter (abab cdcd efef gg or abba cddc effe gg) | 40 | |
| 3423872521 | Rhyme royal | 7-line stanza in iambic pentameter (ababbcc) | 41 | |
| 3423883453 | Repetition | duplication of an element of language, such as a word, phrase, clause, etc. | 42 | |
| 3423900035 | Spenserian sonnet | 14 lines, iambic pentameter, with rhyme of abab bcbc cdcd ee | 43 | |
| 3423900036 | Quatrain | stanza of four lines | 44 | |
| 3423906222 | Petrarchan sonnet | 14 lines divided into two parts, an octave (abbaabba) and sestet (cdecde) | 45 | |
| 3423910736 | Persona | a "mask" which the author assumes to speak to the audience | 46 | |
| 3423915572 | Pathos | quality which evokes feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, etc. | 47 | |
| 3423919867 | Irony | writer expresses a meaning contradictory to stated or ostensible one | 48 | |
| 3423923481 | Oxymoron | two apparently contradictory terms (cold fires) | 49 | |
| 3548496884 | Synecdoche | part of something is used to represent the whole (i.e. cars as "wheels") | 50 | |
| 3549319400 | Hyperbole | exaggeration to ridiculous level to create comedic or ironic effect | 51 | |
| 3549329101 | Types of Irony: Situational, Dramatic & Verbal | when there is a statement or experience that seems to contradict itself | 52 | |
| 3549348269 | Anaphora | repeated phrase for effect | 53 | |
| 3549389361 | Onomatopoeia | sound of word that makes the same noise as the word's meaning | 54 | |
| 3553950423 | Aside | when a character or speaker speaks to the audience when inner feeling or thought | 55 | |
| 3553991990 | Antithesis | two ideas directly opposed | 56 | |
| 3554007524 | Asyndeton | omission of words or conjunctions to create a tight, concise and terse statement | 57 | |
| 3554045168 | Connotation | feeling or cultural context of a word | 58 | |
| 3554102313 | Cacophony | sounds of words that clash against each other and sound harsh | 59 | |
| 3554123813 | Chiasmus | words appear or repeat in reverse order | 60 | |
| 3554153593 | Denotation | dictionary definition of a word | 61 | |
| 3554174348 | Enjambment | lines of poems that lack punctuation and run into each other | 62 | |
| 3554196056 | Euphony | pleasing, harmonious sounds of words | 63 | |
| 3554297326 | Malapropism | misuse of word: word similar in sound with different meaning is used | 64 | |
| 3554307368 | Paralipsis | speakers says that he/she will not discuss something that they go on to discuss | 65 | |
| 3554383215 | Polysyndeton | use of several conjunctions in close proximity | 66 | |
| 3554397018 | Synesthesia | one sense evokes another sensory experience | 67 | |
| 3554418997 | Tragic flaw | character trait that brings about the person's downfall | 68 | |
| 3554427600 | Zeugma | a word that rules over two other words like a verb with two nouns | 69 | |
| 3616804498 | Ad hominem argument | attacking the character making the argument rather than the argument itself | 70 | |
| 3616808594 | Bathos | unsuccessful attempt to appeal to the reader's emotions by excessive sentimentality | 71 | |
| 3616809634 | Doggerel | poorly written or crude verse, irregular in rhythm and rhyme, with a humorous quality (like in nursery rhymes or children's songs) | 72 | |
| 3616810899 | Gallows humor | silliness or satire about very unpleasant, serious, or painful circumstances (such as war, death, disease, crime) | 73 | |
| 3616813141 | Pathetic fallary | attributing human emotion and conduct to all aspects within nature (kind of personification) | 74 | |
| 3616814319 | Villanelle | a nineteen line poem with five tercets and a quatrain with a specific rhyme scheme (usually a ballad) | 75 | |
| 3616843397 | Anapest | a metrical foot in poetry that consists of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable | 76 | |
| 3616858573 | Blank Verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter verse (in poetry) | 77 | |
| 3616864750 | Dactyl | a metrical foot in poetry that consists of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones | 78 | |
| 3616872431 | Deux Ex Machina | an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation in a contrived plot (novel/play) | 79 | |
| 3616888078 | Juxtaposition | two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect | 80 | |
| 3616888079 | Octave | Poem or stanza of eight lines | 81 | |
| 3616888080 | Sestet | six-line poem or stanza | 82 | |
| 3616889589 | Spondee | a metrical foot in poetry that consists of two stressed syllables | 83 | |
| 3616916928 | Trochee | a metrical foot in poetry that consists of one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable | 84 |
