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| 6694391397 | Dramatic Irony | the audience knows something that the character doesn't | 0 | |
| 6694391398 | Lyric | An emotional rhyming poem | 1 | |
| 6694391399 | Admonition | Cautionary advice; sometimes scoding | 2 | |
| 6694391400 | Anachronism | something that doesn't belong in a time period | 3 | |
| 6694391402 | Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds | 4 | |
| 6694391403 | Consonance | Repetition of consonants or consonant patterns, usually at the end of words | 5 | |
| 6694391405 | Euphony | pleasing, harmonious sounds | 6 | |
| 6694391406 | Cacophony | Harsh or discordant sounds | 7 | |
| 6694391407 | Nonsense | absurd or unlikely situations | 8 | |
| 6694391408 | Incongruity | something that is incompatible, inconsistent | 9 | |
| 6694391409 | Satire | Poking fun at people, groups, institutions, attitudes, etc. for the purpose of improving humanity; blends humor/wit with critical attitude | 10 | |
| 6694391410 | Parody | Imitation of a well-known work in manner or style | 11 | |
| 6694391411 | Lampoon | ridicules a person in a bitter manner | 12 | |
| 6694391412 | Slapstick | Physical humor | 13 | |
| 6694391413 | Burlesque | Trivializing something important; making something important trivial | 14 | |
| 6694391414 | Malapropism | Substitution of an incorrect word for a word with a similar sound | 15 | |
| 6694391415 | Bombast | Inflated, Pretentious, pompous speech | 16 | |
| 6694391416 | Comedy | an amusing dramatic work generally light in tone and subject that has a happy ending | 17 | |
| 6694391417 | Prosody | the study of versification and metrical structure | 18 | |
| 6694391418 | Verse | a poem or lines written in metrical structure | 19 | |
| 6694391419 | Foot | a unit of specific syllable types | 20 | |
| 6694391420 | Iamb | A metrical foot containing two syllables, the first is unstressed while the second is stressed, IRENE | 21 | |
| 6694391421 | Trochee | A metrical foot containing two syllables, the first is stressed while the second is unstressed, TANYA | 22 | |
| 6694391422 | Dactyl | A metrical foot containing three syllables, the first is stressed, while the last two are unstressed, DEBORAH | 23 | |
| 6694391423 | Anapest | A metrical foot containing three syllables, the first two are unstressed, while the last is stressed, ANTOINETTE | 24 | |
| 6694391424 | Spondee | An traditional metrical foot in which two consecutive syllables are stressed, SUE-ANN | 25 | |
| 6694391426 | Meter | pattern of rhythmic accents in a line of verse, described by dominant type of foot and number of feet per lineq | 26 | |
| 6694391427 | Rising Meter | meter containing metrical feet that move from unstressed to stressed syllables | 27 | |
| 6694391428 | Falling Meter | Meter containing metrical feet that move from stressed to unstressed syllables | 28 | |
| 6694391429 | End Rhyme | Final words or syllables of a line rhyme | 29 | |
| 6694391430 | Eye Rhyme | Two words that have similar spellings and look like they would rhyme but pronunciations differ, LOVE and PROVE | 30 | |
| 6694391431 | Internal Rhyme | words or syllables that rhyme within a line | 31 | |
| 6694391432 | Slant Rhyme | (half rhyme) an imperfect term in which syllables almmost rhyme, but sounds are not quite identical, caused when consonants rhyme but vowels don't or vice versa, YARD and FARM or SOUL ALL | 32 | |
| 6694391433 | Masculine Rhyme | rhyming ending in stressed syllables, CAT and HAT | 33 | |
| 6694391434 | Feminine Rhyme | Rhymes ending in unstressed syllables, DICING and ENTICING | 34 | |
| 6694391435 | Caesura | a stop or pause in the middle of a line, generally marked by punctuation or a grammatical boundary | 35 | |
| 6694391436 | Refrain | a line or stanza that reoccurs throughout the poem | 36 | |
| 6694391437 | Heroic Couplet | A pair of rhymed lines, usually at the end of a stanza or a poem | 37 | |
| 6694391438 | Sonnnet | 14- line poem written in iambic pentameter that follow a set of end rhyme scheme | 38 | |
| 6694391439 | Petrarchan Sonnet | Italian Sonnet, octave then sextet, abbaabba cdecde OR cdcdcd | 39 | |
| 6694391440 | Shakespearean Sonnet | Three quatrains and one couplet, abab cdcd efef gg | 40 | |
| 6694391441 | Villanelle | Highly structured 19-line poem with two repeating rhythms and two refrains - five tercets, a quatrain - first and third line of first tercet repeat alternately in the last line of each tercet, final stanza has both refrains A1 b A2/a b A1/a b A2/a b A1/a b A2/a b A1 A2 | 41 | |
| 6694391442 | Limerick | comical, nonsensical poems popularized by nursery rhymes, composed of five lines, uses strict rhyme scheme aa bb a, bouncy anapestic rhythm to make it easy to memorize | 42 | |
| 6694391443 | Ballad | Narrative song traditionally passed down orrally, recount heroic, comic or tragic stories and generally emphasize a single dramatic event - describes every crucial moment in the trail of events - comprised of quatrians (abcb) - alternating four-stress and three- stress lines | 43 | |
| 6694391444 | Ode | Formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, event, thing, or idea - formal tone and thematic elements | 44 | |
| 6694391445 | Elegy | Written in response to the death of a person or group - differs from an ode in that ode solely exalts subject - three stages of loss- 1. lament-speaker expresses grief and sorrow 2. Praise- admiration of the idealized dead 3. solace- speaker finds consolation | 45 | |
| 6694391446 | Epic | A long narrative that tells the heroic journey or a person engaged in an action of great mythical or historical importance - includes superhuman deeds, fabulous adventures, and a blending of lyrical and dramatic traditions - traditional Greek and Latin epics open with an invocation to the muse | 46 | |
| 6694391447 | Free Verse | Not constricted to an obvious form | 47 | |
| 6694391448 | Blank Verse | Iambic Pentameter without an end rhyme scheme | 48 |
