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| 6629762516 | allegory | a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; symbolic narrative | 0 | |
| 6629762517 | alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables | 1 | |
| 6629762518 | allusion | a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance | 2 | |
| 6629762519 | anaphora | repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences | 3 | |
| 6629764080 | anecdote | a short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point | 4 | |
| 6629764081 | antithesis | two opposite ideas put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect | 5 | |
| 6629764082 | apostrophe | a direct address to an abstraction, a thing, an animal, or an imaginary or absent person | 6 | |
| 6629765593 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words | 7 | |
| 6629765594 | atmosphere | the feeling, emotion, or mood that an author creates in a narrative through descriptive language (style, tone, setting) | 8 | |
| 6629765595 | blank verse | un-rhymed iambic pentameter; most commonly used verse form | 9 | |
| 6629765596 | consonance | consonant sound is repeated in words that are in close proximity | 10 | |
| 6629767511 | couplet | two successive lines in a poem that comprise a rhyming couplet with the same meter | 11 | |
| 6629767512 | elegy | a contemplative poem on death and mortality, often written for someone who died | 12 | |
| 6629767513 | enjambment | poetic technique in which one line ends without a pause and must continue on to the next line to complete its meaning | 13 | |
| 6629767514 | euphemism | polite, indirect expression which replaces words and phrases considered harsh and impolite or which suggest something unpleasant | 14 | |
| 6629769123 | hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic or ironic effect; an overstatement to make a point | 15 | |
| 6629769124 | irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning | 16 | |
| 6629769125 | Impressionism | a literary or artistic style that seeks to capture a feeling or experience rather than to achieve accurate depiction | 17 | |
| 6629770579 | iambic pentameter | a line with verse of five metrical feet, each consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable | 18 | |
| 6629770580 | metaphor | a figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as | 19 | |
| 6629770581 | meter | organization of stressed and unstressed syllables; measured in feet | 20 | |
| 6629770582 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which something is represented by another thing that is related to it | 21 | |
| 6629772592 | Minimalism | a style in prose or verse that emphasizes economy of words and unadorned sentences | 22 | |
| 6629772593 | Naturalism | a manner or technique of treating subject matter that presents, through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human life and actions | 23 | |
| 6629772594 | octave | a verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter; first part of a Petrarchan sonnet | 24 | |
| 6629774988 | onomatopoeia | use of words to sound and whose pronunciations mimic those sounds | 25 | |
| 6629774989 | ode | form of poetry used to meditate on or address a single object or condition | 26 | |
| 6629774990 | quatrain | verse with four lines, or even a full poem containing four lines, having an independent and separate theme | 27 | |
| 6629776357 | Realism | accuracy in the portrayal of life or reality; in contrast to Romanticism, Impressionism, or Expressionism | 28 | |
| 6629776358 | rhythm | general pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | 29 | |
| 6629776359 | paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but actually is not | 30 | |
| 6629776360 | personification | a figure of speech in which an animal or inanimate object is imbued with human qualities | 31 | |
| 6629777960 | Romanticism | movement that emphasized beauty for beauty's sake, the natural world, emotion, imagination, the value of a nation's past and its folklore, and the heroic roles of the individual and the artist | 32 | |
| 6629777961 | sestet | last six lines of a sonnet; six lines of poetry | 33 | |
| 6629777962 | simile | figure of speech used to explain or clarify an idea by comparing it explicitly to something else, using like or as | 34 | |
| 6629777963 | synecdoche | part of something is used to represent the whole | 35 | |
| 6629779632 | synesthesia | a technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one sense (sight, sound, smell, taste, etc.) | 36 | |
| 6629779633 | syntax | the arrangement of words, phrases, and sentences in a prose passage | 37 | |
| 6629781668 | understatement | presentation of framing something as less important, lawful, good, powerful, etc. | 38 |
