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| 7829826298 | Alliteration | The repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words | 0 | |
| 7829841998 | Anapest | A metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable | 1 | |
| 7829849079 | Anapestic Meter | A meter in which a majority of the feet are anapests | 2 | |
| 7829857017 | Approximate Rhyme | A term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some ind of sound correspondance but are not perfect rhymes | 3 | |
| 7829869745 | Assonance | The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words | 4 | |
| 7829889998 | Ballad Meter | Stanzas formed of quatrains of iambs in which the first and third lines have four stresses (tetrameter) and the second and fourth lines have three stresses (trimeter) | 5 | |
| 7829919807 | Blank Verse | Poetry with a meter, but not rhymed, usually in iambic pentameter | 6 | |
| 7829926084 | Consonance | The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words | 7 | |
| 7829931518 | Couplet | Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme | 8 | |
| 7829937375 | Dactyl | A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables | 9 | |
| 7829944965 | Dactylic Meter | A meter in which a majority of the feet are dactyls | 10 | |
| 7829954151 | End Rhyme | Rhymes that occur at the end of lines | 11 | |
| 7829962348 | End-Stopped Line | A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation | 12 | |
| 7829991763 | Enjambment | Run-on line, a line which has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the succeeding line | 13 | |
| 7830012935 | English (Shakespearean) Sonnet | A sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg. Its content or structure ideally parallels the rhyme scheme, falling into three coordinate quatrains and concluding couplet | 14 | |
| 7830040884 | Feminine Rhyme | A rhyme in which the stress is on teh penultimate (second from last) syllable of the words | 15 | |
| 7830054164 | Foot | The baic unit used in the scansion or measurement of verse | 16 | |
| 7830058986 | Free Verse | Nonmetrical verse | 17 | |
| 7830065323 | Half Rhyme | (Sometimes called slant rhyme, sprung, near rhyme, etc.) is consonance on the final consonants of the word involved | 18 | |
| 7830092948 | Heroic Couplet | Poems constructed by a sequence of two lines of (usually rhyming) verse in iambic pentameter | 19 | |
| 7830103410 | Iamb | A metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable | 20 | |
| 7830111429 | Iambic Meter | A meter in which the majority of feet are iambs, the most common English meter | 21 | |
| 7830118037 | Internal Rhyme | A rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme-words occur within the line | 22 | |
| 7830132178 | Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet | A sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rhymes, such as cdcdcd or cdecde | 23 | |
| 7830143657 | Masculine Rhyme | A rhyme in which the stress is on the final syllable of the words | 24 | |
| 7830147443 | Meter | Regularized rhythm; an arrangement of language in which the accents occur at apparently equal intervals in time | 25 | |
| 7830164903 | Octave | 1. An eight-line stanza 2. The first eight lines of a sonnet, especially one structured in the manner of an Italian sonnet | 26 | |
| 7830177150 | Perfect Rhyme | A rhyme in which is when the later part of the word or phrase is identical sounding to another | 27 | |
| 7830187749 | Pentameter | A metrical line containing five feet | 28 | |
| 7830190642 | Quatrain | 1. A four-line stanza 2. A four-line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme | 29 | |
| 7830199526 | Refrain | A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines, normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanziac form | 30 | |
| 7830218201 | Rhyme | The repetition of an identical or similarly accented sound or sounds in a work | 31 | |
| 7830226452 | Rhyme Scheme | Any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas | 32 | |
| 7830230461 | Scansion | The process of measuring verse, that is, of marking accented and unaccented syllables, dividing the lines into feet, identifying the metrical pattern, and noting significant variations from that pattern | 33 | |
| 7830244730 | Sestet | 1. A six-line stanza 2. The last six lines of a sonnet structured on the Italian model | 34 | |
| 7830251268 | Spondee | A metrical foot consisting of two syllables equally or almost equally accented | 35 | |
| 7830262505 | Stanza | A group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout a poem | 36 | |
| 7830268657 | Syntax | The arrangement of words to form phrases, clauses and sentences | 37 | |
| 7830273906 | Terza Rima | A three-line stanza form borrowed from the Italian poets. The rhyme scheme is: aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc. | 38 | |
| 7830283231 | Tetrameter | A metrical line containing four feet | 39 | |
| 7830286222 | Trimeter | A metrical line containing three feet | 40 | |
| 7830294539 | Triple Meter | A meter in which a majority of the feet contain three syllables | 41 | |
| 7830299342 | Trochaic Meter | A meter in which the majority of feet are trochees | 42 | |
| 7830305574 | Trochee | A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable | 43 |
