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| 5554935418 | Alliteration | : the repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of each or most of the words in a sentence. Ex: anxious ants avoid the anteater | 0 | |
| 5554942012 | Assonance | : a "vowel rhyme". The repetition of a pattern of similar sounds within a sentence | 1 | |
| 5554946762 | Blank verse | A literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter. In poetry and prose, it has a consistent meter with 10 syllables in each line; where, unstressed syllables are followed by stressed ones and five of which are stressed but do not rhyme. | 2 | |
| 5554954376 | Cacophony | The use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing and unmelodious sounds primarily those of consonants to achieve desired results | 3 | |
| 5554961537 | Euphony | Pleasing to the ear | 4 | |
| 5554968463 | Caesura | Everyone speaks and everyone breathes too. While speaking, everyone breaths. Ex: "Maria has taken breaks." you take a breath before saying: "But Adam did not." It is pauses that create a rhythm | 5 | |
| 5554975424 | Conceit | A figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors. Conceit develops a comparison which is unlikely but is imaginative. Ex: when a writer tries to make us admit a similarity of two things whose unlikeness we strongly know | 6 | |
| 5554982313 | Connotation | Refers to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes. Ex: words can bring cultural and emotional association in addition to their literal meanings or denotations | 7 | |
| 5554992236 | Consonance | Refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase. Ex: pitter, patter | 8 | |
| 5554997389 | Couplet | A literary device which can be defined as having two successive rhyming lines in a verse and has the same meter to form a complete thought | 9 | |
| 5555000206 | Dirge | A tragedy that dramatizes a serious subject matter about human suffering and terrible events but in a dignified manner. | 10 | |
| 5555009788 | Dramatic monologue | A character speaks to a silent listener for dramatic effect | 11 | |
| 5555017226 | Elegy | A form of literature which can be defined as a poem or song in the form of elegiac couplets, written in honor of someone that has died. It lament or mourns the death of someone | 12 | |
| 5555027574 | End-stopped line | A poetic device where a pause comes at the end of a syntactic unit (sentence, clause, etc.); the pause can be expressed in writing as a punctuation mark such as a colon, period, etc | 13 | |
| 5555034462 | Epic | A poetic story. Usually a long narrative poem, which is usually related to heroic deeds of a person of unusual courage and bravery. Grandiose style is used | 14 | |
| 5555039309 | Foot | It is a measuring unit in poetry, which is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables. The stressed syllable is usually indicated by a vertical line, where the unstressed syllable is represented by a cross | 15 | |
| 5555045115 | Free verse | A literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms. The poet gives his own shape to a poem | 16 | |
| 5555053141 | iamb | A literary device that can be defined as a foot containing unaccented and short syllables followed by a long and accented syllable in a single line of a poem (unstressed/stressed syllables | 17 | |
| 5555059675 | Imagery | Refers to figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas so that it appeals to our physical senses. Ex: " It was dark and dim in the forest." | 18 | |
| 5555064457 | In medias res | Refers to in the middle at a significant moment | 19 | |
| 5555070956 | Lyric | A collection of verses and choruses, that make up a complete song or a short and non-narrative poem. It is usually with a single speaker who expresses personal emotion or thoughts | 20 | |
| 5555076806 | Meter | A stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in verse or within the lines of a poem. Stressed syllables tend to be longer and unstressed shorter. It is a linguistic sound pattern | 21 | |
| 5555082498 | Octave | A verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter or of hendecasyllables | 22 | |
| 5555088456 | Ode | A form of poetry such as a sonnet or elegy. It is a literary technique that is lyrical in nature but not very long | 23 | |
| 5555096129 | Pentameter | A literary device that can be defined as a line in verse or poetry that has five strong metrical feet or beats. There are four different forms of pentameter: iambic, trochaic, dactylic and anapestic | 24 | |
| 5555102901 | Quatrain | A verse with four lines, or even a full poem containing four lines, having an independent and separate theme. | 25 | |
| 5555112937 | Refrain | A verse, a line, a set, or a group of some lines that appears at the end of stanza, or appears where a poem divides into different sections. It is a poetic device that repeats at regular intervals in different stanzas | 26 | |
| 5555120198 | Repetition | A literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer | 27 | |
| 5555127868 | Rhyme | A repetition or similar sounding words occurring at the end of lines in poems or songs. It uses repeating patterns. | 28 | |
| 5555594939 | Stanza | a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse. | 29 | |
| 5555594940 | Stress | the emphasis that falls on certain syllables and not others; the arrangement of stresses within a poem is the foundation of poetic rhythm | 30 | |
| 5555594941 | Allusion | brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance | 31 | |
| 5555594942 | Apostrophe | term used when a speaker directly addresses someone or something that isn't present in the poem | 32 | |
| 5555594943 | Diction | defined as style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer. | 33 | |
| 5555594944 | Euphemism | refers to polite, indirect expressions which replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite or which suggest something unpleasant. | 34 | |
| 5555594945 | Flashback | an interruption of the chronological sequence (as of a film or literary work) of an event of earlier occurrence | 35 | |
| 5555594946 | Hyperbole | over-casting" is a figure of speech, which involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis | 36 | |
| 5555594947 | Metaphor | Not using like or as | 37 | |
| 5555594948 | Mood | evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions. | 38 | |
| 5555594949 | Prose | form of language that has no formal metrical structure. | 39 | |
| 5555594950 | Satire | a technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule. | 40 | |
| 5555594951 | Verse | denotes a single line of poetry. | 41 |
