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| 12006744966 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply | 0 | |
| 12006752558 | Connotation | What a word suggests beyond its basic definition; a word's overtones of meaning | 1 | |
| 12006757935 | Denotation | The basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word | 2 | |
| 12006766622 | Ekphrasis | The poetic representation of a painting or sculpture in words | 3 | |
| 12006778932 | Epigram | (1) A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation. (2) A concise, clever, often paradoxical statement | 4 | |
| 12006795507 | Extended figure | (also knows as sustained figure) A figure of speech (usually metaphor, simile, personification, or apostrophe) sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem | 5 | |
| 12006810664 | Figurative language | Language employing figures of speech; language that cannot be taken literally or only literally | 6 | |
| 12006816786 | Figure of speech | Broadly, any way of saying something other that the ordinary way; more narrowly (and for the purposes of this class) a way of saying one thing and meaning another | 7 | |
| 12006826511 | Juxtaposition | Positioning opposites next to each other to heighten the contrast | 8 | |
| 12006839667 | Metaphor | A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike | 9 | |
| 12006847720 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience | 10 | |
| 12006859481 | Onomatopoeia | The use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound (for example, boom, click, plop). | 11 | |
| 12006875962 | Personification | A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept | 12 | |
| 12006881628 | Rhythm | Any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound | 13 | |
| 12006889159 | Sentimentality | Unmerited or contrived tender feeling; that quality in a story that elicits or seeks to elicit tears through an oversimplification or falsification of reality | 14 | |
| 12006893512 | Simile | A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike. The comparison is made explicit by the use of some such word or phrase as like, as, than, similar to, resembles, or seems | 15 | |
| 12006906518 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole. In this class it is subsumed under the term Metonymy. | 16 | |
| 12006913679 | Syntax | Word organization and order. | 17 | |
| 12006921015 | Alliteration | The repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, map-moon, kill-code, preach-approve) | 18 | |
| 12006939899 | Anapest | A metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable (for example, understand) | 19 | |
| 12006946586 | Anapestic meter | A meter in which a majority of the feet are anapests | 20 | |
| 12006951749 | Approximate rhyme | (also known as imperfect rhyme, near rhyme, slant rhyme, or oblique rhyme) A term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rimes (for example, arrayed-said) | 21 | |
| 12006962279 | Assonance | The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, hat-ran-amber, vein-made). | 22 | |
| 12006973522 | 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). Usually, the second and fourth lines rhyme (abcb), although ballad meter is often not followed strictly. | 23 | |
| 12007086590 | Blank verse | Poetry with a meter, but not rhymed, usually in iambic pentameter | 24 | |
| 12007095761 | Consonance | The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, bookplaque-thicker) | 25 | |
| 12007109555 | Couplet | Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme | 26 | |
| 12007117553 | Dactyl | A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables (for example, merrily) | 27 | |
| 12007132118 | Dactylic meter | A meter in which a majority of the feet are dactyls | 28 | |
| 12007141257 | End rhyme | Rhymes that occur at the ends of lines | 29 | |
| 12007146902 | End-stopped line | A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation — the opposite of enjambment | 30 | |
| 12007153649 | Enjambment | Or run-on line, a line which has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the succeeding line — the opposite of an end-stopped line | 31 | |
| 12007169683 | English (or Shakespearean) sonnet | A sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg. Its content or structure ideally parallels the rhyme scheme, falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet; but it is often structured, like the Italian sonnet, into octave and sestet, the principal break in thought coming at the end of the eighth line. | 32 | |
| 12007198268 | Feminine Rhyme | A rhyme in which the stress is on the penultimate (second from last) syllable of the words (picky, tricky) | 33 | |
| 12007205115 | Foot | The basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of verse. A foot usually contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables | 34 | |
| 12007215123 | Free verse | Nonmetrical verse. Poetry written in free verse is arranged in lines, may be more or less rhythmical, but has no fixed metrical pattern or expectation | 35 | |
| 12007225070 | Half rhyme | (Sometimes called slant rhyme, sprung, near rhyme, oblique rhyme, off rhyme or imperfect rhyme), is consonance on the final consonants of the words involved | 36 | |
| 12007234060 | Heroic couplet | Poems constructed by a sequence of two lines of (usually rhyming) verse in iambic pentameter. If these couplets do not rhyme, they are usually separated by extra white space | 37 | |
| 12007251509 | Iamb | A metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable (for example, rehearse) | 38 | |
| 12007258772 | Iambic meter | A meter in which the majority of feet are iambs, the most common English meter | 39 | |
| 12007264997 | Internal rhyme | A rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme-words occur within the line | 40 | |
| 12007282285 | Italian (or 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 | 41 | |
| 12007296591 | Masculine rhyme | (also known as single rhyme) A rhyme in which the stress is on the final syllable of the words (rhyme, sublime) | 42 | |
| 12007303020 | Meter | Regularized rhythm; an arrangement of language in which the accents occur at apparently equal intervals in time | 43 | |
| 12007317924 | Octave | (1) An eight-line stanza. (2) The first eight lines of a sonnet, especially one structured in the manner of an Italian sonnet | 44 | |
| 12007328533 | Perfect rhyme | A rhyme in which is when the later part of the word or phrase is identical sounding to another. Types include masculine and feminine, among others. | 45 | |
| 12007334689 | Pentameter | A metrical line containing five feet | 46 | |
| 12007340693 | Quatrain | (1) A four-line stanza. (2) A four-line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme. | 47 | |
| 12007344813 | Refrain | A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines, normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanziac form | 48 | |
| 12007356626 | Rhyme | The repetition of an identical or similarly accented sound or sounds in a work. Lyricists may find multiple ways to rhyme within a verse. | 49 | |
| 12007366459 | Rhyme scheme | Any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas | 50 | |
| 12007380518 | 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 | 51 | |
| 12007393788 | Sestet | (1) A six-line stanza (2) The last six lines of a sonnet structured on the Italian model | 52 | |
| 12007414881 | Spondee | A metrical foot consisting of two syllables equally or almost equally accented (for example, true-blue). | 53 | |
| 12007414945 | Stanza | A group of lines whose metrical pattern (and usually its rhyme scheme as well) is repeated throughout a poem | 54 | |
| 12007421816 | Terza Rima | A three-line stanza form borrowed from the Italian poets. The rhyme scheme is: aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc. | 55 | |
| 12007447935 | Tetrameter | A metrical line containing four feet | 56 | |
| 12007454315 | Trimeter | A metrical line containing three feet | 57 | |
| 12007466651 | Triple meter | A meter in which a majority of the feet contain three syllables. (Actually, if more than 25 percent of the feet in a poem are triple, its effect is more triple than duple, and it ought perhaps to be referred to as triple meter.) Anapestic and dactylic are both triple meters. | 58 | |
| 12007475853 | Trochaic meter | A meter in which the majority of feet are trochees | 59 | |
| 12007488919 | Trochee | A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable (for example, barter) | 60 | |
| 12007493105 | Ballad | a narrative folk song. The ---- is traced back to the Middle Ages. --- were usually created by common people and passed orally due to the illiteracy of the time. Subjects for ----- include killings, feuds, important historical events, and rebellion. | 61 | |
| 12007514262 | Elegy | A type of literature defined as a song or poem, written in elegiac couplets, that expresses sorrow or lamentation, usually for one who has died. | 62 | |
| 12007527177 | Epic | A long poem in a lofty style about the exploits of heroic figures. These often come from an oral tradition of shared authorship or from a single, high-profile poet imitating the style. | 63 | |
| 12007533226 | Lyric | a song-like poem written mainly to express the feelings of emotions or thought from a particular person, thus separating it from narrative poems. These poems are generally short, averaging roughly twelve to thirty lines, and rarely go beyond sixty lines. These poems express vivid imagination as well as emotion and all flow fairly concisely. | 64 | |
| 12007551752 | Narrative poem | A poem that tells a story. A narrative poem can come in many forms and styles, both complex and simple, short or long, as long as it tells a story. A few examples of a narrative poem are epics, ballads, and metrical romances. | 65 | |
| 12007563752 | Ode | Usually a lyric poem of moderate length, with a serious subject, an elevated style, and an elaborate stanza pattern. The ode often praises people, the arts of music and poetry, natural scenes, or abstract concepts. | 66 | |
| 12007582628 | Sonnet | A fixed form of fourteen lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme conforming to or approximating one of two main types—the Italian or the English | 67 |
