3664730165 | lyric poetry | Form of poetry expressing personal emotions or feelings; typically in first person. | 0 | |
3664730166 | Memoir | A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources. | 1 | |
3664730167 | Meter | A rhythm of accented and unaccented syllables organized into patterns. | 2 | |
3664730168 | Iamb | Unstressed followed by a stressed syllable. | 3 | |
3664730169 | Trochee | Metrical foot consisting of stressed syllable followed by a unstressed. | 4 | |
3664730170 | Anapest | Each foot has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. | 5 | |
3664730171 | Dactyl | Stressed syllable followed by two unstressed. | 6 | |
3664730172 | Spondee | Two stressed syllables in a metrical foot. | 7 | |
3664730173 | Pyrrhic | Two unstressed syllables in a metrical foot. | 8 | |
3664730174 | Metonymy | Substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant. | 9 | |
3664730175 | Motif | Distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition. | 10 | |
3664730176 | Ode | Lyric poem in form of an address of a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in irregular meter. | 11 | |
3664730177 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. | 12 | |
3664730178 | Paradox | Statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 13 | |
3664730179 | Parallelism | Use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter. | 14 | |
3664730180 | Parody | An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. | 15 |
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