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| 8058350028 | Alliteration | The repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words | 0 | |
| 8058358252 | Anapest | A metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable (for example, understand) | 1 | |
| 8058365003 | Anapestic meter | A meter in which a majority of the feet are anapests | 2 | |
| 8058375234 | Approximate rhyme | A term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes | 3 | |
| 8058392093 | Assonance | The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words | 4 | |
| 8058404121 | 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. | 5 | |
| 8058416610 | Blank Verse | Poetry with a meter, but not rhymed, usually in iambic pentameter | 6 | |
| 8058421469 | Consonance | The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words | 7 | |
| 8058424421 | Couplet | Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme | 8 | |
| 8058428601 | Dactyl | A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables | 9 | |
| 8058433937 | dactylic meter | a meter in which a majority of the feet are dactyls | 10 | |
| 8058443885 | end rhyme | rhymes that occur at the end of lines | 11 | |
| 8058446232 | end-stopped line | a line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation - opposite of enjambment | 12 | |
| 8058460786 | 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 | 13 | |
| 8058482292 | 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. | 14 | |
| 8058495318 | feminine rhyme | A rhyme in which the stress is on the penultimate (second from last) syllable of the words | 15 | |
| 8058506334 | 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 | 16 | |
| 8058508791 | free verse | nonmetrical verse | 17 | |
| 8058514742 | half rhyme | consonance on the final consonants of the words involved | 18 | |
| 8058522099 | heroic couplet | a poem constructed by a sequence of two lines of verse in iambic pentameter | 19 | |
| 8058823858 | iamb | a metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable | 20 |
