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| 4315327835 | alliteration | repetition of two or more consonant sounds | 0 | |
| 4315327836 | allusion | reference to something assumed to be well known | 1 | |
| 4315327837 | assonance | repetition of two or more vowel sounds | 2 | |
| 4315327838 | cacophony | harsh sound; opposite of euphony | 3 | |
| 4315327839 | colloquial english | casual/informal, but correct language of ordinary native speakers | 4 | |
| 4315327840 | connotation | associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word | 5 | |
| 4315327841 | consonance | words share similar consonant sounds but different vowel sounds; slant rhyme | 6 | |
| 4315327842 | couplet | two line stanza in poetry, usually rhymes and has equal length; usually at the end | 7 | |
| 4315327843 | denotation | literal dictionary definition of a word | 8 | |
| 4315327844 | diction | word choice or vocabulary | 9 | |
| 4315327845 | didactic poetry | poetry that aims for education rather than art | 10 | |
| 4315327846 | dramatic monologue | poem written as a speech/single speaker in a decisive moment | 11 | |
| 4315327847 | end rhyme | rhyme that occurs at the end of a line | 12 | |
| 4315327848 | epigraph | brief quote preceding a story or literary work | 13 | |
| 4315327849 | euphony | harmonious effect, opposite cacophony | 14 | |
| 4315327850 | exact rhyme | sounds following initial letters that are identical in sound | 15 | |
| 4315327851 | expressionism | dramatic style against realism; dreamlike subjective realm | 16 | |
| 4315327852 | eye rhyme | spelling of two words looks the same, but they are pronounced differently (cough, though) | 17 | |
| 4315327853 | feminine rhyme | rhyme of words containing more than one syllable where the rhyme lands on any syllable except the last | 18 | |
| 4315327854 | form | means by which a literary work conveys meaning | 19 | |
| 4315327855 | formal english | heightened, impersonal language of educated speakers (see diction) | 20 | |
| 4315327856 | general english | ordinary language of educated native speakers (see diction) | 21 | |
| 4315327857 | hyperbole | exaggeration or overstatement | 22 | |
| 4315327858 | iamb | unstressed, stressed (meter; type of foot) | 23 | |
| 4315327859 | iambic pentameter | five iambic feet per line (meter) | 24 | |
| 4315327860 | image | reference to a sensory experience in literature | 25 | |
| 4315327861 | imagery | collective set of images in a literary work | 26 | |
| 4315327862 | impressionism | when a literary work centers on a character's mental life rather than surrounding reality; emphasizes external events rather than impression they leave | 27 | |
| 4315327863 | internal refrain | refrain within a stanza | 28 | |
| 4315327864 | internal rhyme | rhyme occurs within a line of poetry | 29 | |
| 4315327865 | irony | a discrepancy in meaning/ meaning is masked (dramatic, verbal, situational) | 30 | |
| 4315327866 | levels of diction | Formal English (highest) General English Colloquial English Vulgate (lowest) | 31 | |
| 4315327867 | lyric | short poem expressing thoughts, feelings of a single speaker | 32 | |
| 4315327868 | masculine rhyme | rhyme of one syllable words OR rhyme of stressed final syllable | 33 | |
| 4315327869 | metaphor | comparison by stating that one thing IS another | 34 | |
| 4315327870 | metonymy | when the name of something is substituted in for something similar (i.e White House for President) A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty"). | 35 | |
| 4315327871 | narrative poem | poem that tells a story | 36 | |
| 4315327872 | onomatopoeia | word imitating a sound | 37 | |
| 4315327873 | personification | non-human object is given human characteristics | 38 | |
| 4315327874 | poetic diction | elevated language/specialized vocabulary | 39 | |
| 4315327875 | quatrain | stanza consisting of four lines | 40 | |
| 4315327876 | refrain | lines repeated at intervals in a song or poem | 41 | |
| 4315327877 | rhyme | two or more words that contain identical or similar vowel sound | 42 | |
| 4315327878 | rhyme scheme | recurrent pattern of rhyme | 43 | |
| 4315327879 | simile | comparison of two things using like, as, resembles | 44 | |
| 4315327880 | sonnet | poem of fourteen lines, usually with ten syllables per line | 45 | |
| 4315327881 | synechdoche | figure of speech in which a part of something is made to represent the whole, or vice versa | 46 | |
| 4315327882 | terminal refrain | group of repeated lines following a stanza | 47 | |
| 4315327883 | theme | the central topic a text writes to; what the work SAYS about the subject | 48 | |
| 4315327884 | tone | attitude of a writer towards a subject or audience | 49 | |
| 4315327885 | understatement | the presentation of something as smaller or less important than it actually is | 50 | |
| 4315327886 | vulgate | lowest level of diction; common/casual | 51 | |
| 4315327887 | slant rhyme | almost rhyme; either assonance or consonance in place of true rhyme | 52 | |
| 4315327888 | stream of consciousness | style of writing that portrays the inner workings of a character's mind | 53 | |
| 4315327889 | surrealism | allowing subconscious or dream-like imagery to lead the poem | 54 | |
| 4315327890 | symbol | a person, place, or thing which has meaning for itself but also stands for something more than itself | 55 | |
| 4315333101 | animism | The belief that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other natural objects have spirits | 56 | |
| 4315333102 | idiosyncratic | (adj.) peculiar to one person; highly individualized | 57 | |
| 4315335543 | quasi | resembling but not actually being; seemingly but not actually or completely | 58 | |
| 4315335544 | bulwark | (n.) a strong defense or protection, a solid wall-like structure for defense; (v.) to provide such defense or protection | 59 | |
| 4315337236 | circumspect | Careful, cautious | 60 | |
| 4315337237 | repartee | Quick, witty conversation | 61 | |
| 4315337238 | pathos | Appeal to emotion | 62 | |
| 4315338716 | ethos | Appeal to credibility | 63 | |
| 4315338717 | logos | Appeal to logic | 64 | |
| 4315340768 | mendacious | given to lying | 65 | |
| 4315480039 | erudition | Learning; knowledge; enlightenment. | 66 | |
| 4315519416 | erudite | Learned, scholarly, bookish | 67 | |
| 4315480040 | convalescence | gradual return to health and strength after an illness or other problem | 68 | |
| 4315481912 | haughty | Arrogantly superior and disdainful | 69 | |
| 4315483210 | garrulous | Excessively talkative | 70 | |
| 4315486643 | terse | Concise, brief and to the point (sometimes to the point of rudeness) | 71 | |
| 4315486644 | vex | annoy to annoy; irritate; puzzle; confuse | 72 | |
| 4315486645 | perplex | to confuse or trouble with uncertainty or doubt | 73 | |
| 4315490086 | caesura | A strong pause within a line of verse. | 74 | |
| 4315490087 | expedient | (n.) a means to an end; (adj.) advantageous, useful | 75 | |
| 4315490088 | beguile | To deceive; to charm; to enchant | 76 | |
| 4315495698 | satirical | Attacking human vice or foolishness through irony or wit | 77 | |
| 4315508120 | subsistance | Is self-sufficiency farming in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their families. | 78 | |
| 4315510607 | extricate | free from an entanglement or difficulty; disentangle | 79 | |
| 4315510608 | laudatory | full of praise | 80 | |
| 4315512016 | reverential | deeply respectful | 81 | |
| 4315512017 | siege | the surrounding of a place in order to force it to surrender | 82 | |
| 4315512018 | besieged | to surround someone in an overwhelming way surrounded by enemies | 83 | |
| 4316170772 | elegy | A lyric poem that laments the dead. | 84 | |
| 4316170773 | elegaic | mournful, grieving in tone | 85 | |
| 4316170774 | subjunctive mood | a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible; wishful thinking--if I were you, if he were honest | 86 | |
| 4316178347 | deferential | respectful and polite in a submissive way | 87 | |
| 4316178348 | pious | Devoutly religious | 88 | |
| 4316178349 | piety | religious devotion | 89 | |
| 4316182351 | sundry | Various; miscellaneous | 90 | |
| 4316182352 | hedonism | self indulgence; pleasure-seeking | 91 | |
| 4316182353 | forlorn | (adj.) totally abandoned and helpless; sad and lonely; wretched or pitiful; almost hopeless | 92 | |
| 4316186428 | didactic | Intended to teach Intended to instruct | 93 | |
| 4316186429 | wherewithal | the necessary means (especially financial means) | 94 | |
| 4316188728 | substantive | essential | 95 |
