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| 13885948050 | enjambment | the continuation of a sentence from one line of a poem to the next | 0 | |
| 13885948051 | Pastoral | A work of literature dealing with rural life | 1 | |
| 13885948052 | antithesis | the juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas | 2 | |
| 13885948053 | apostrophe | an address or invocation to something that is inanimate | 3 | |
| 13885948054 | caesura | a pause near the middle of a line. | 4 | |
| 13885948055 | colloquial | Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing; vernacular | 5 | |
| 13885948056 | synechdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning "Cleveland's baseball team"). | 6 | |
| 13885948057 | elegy | a poetic lament upon the death of a particular person, usually ending in consolation | 7 | |
| 13885948058 | iambic | a metrical foot in poetry that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable | 8 | |
| 13885948059 | consonance | the repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, but with a change in the intervening vowels | 9 | |
| 13885948060 | villanelle | a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. | 10 | |
| 13885948061 | juxtaposition | the location of one thing as being adjacent with another; this placement of two items side by side creates a certain effect, reveals an attitude, or accomplishes some purpose of the writer | 11 | |
| 13885948062 | quatrain | a poetic stanza of four lines | 12 | |
| 13885948063 | solioquy | a monologue in which the character in a play is alone and speaking only to himself or herself | 13 | |
| 13885948064 | Shakespearean sonnet | a sonnet form divided into three quatrains and one couplet; also called an English sonnet | 14 | |
| 13885948065 | Petrachan sonnet | a sonnet form divided into an octave and a sestet; also called an Italian sonnet | 15 | |
| 13885948066 | sestina | a highly structured poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet; the same set of six words ends the lines of each of the six-line stanzas, but in a different order each time | 16 | |
| 13885948067 | terza rima | a verse form consisting of three-line stanzas in which the second line of each rhymes with the first and third of the next | 17 | |
| 13885948068 | adage | A saying or proverb containing a truth based on experience and often couched in metaphorical language. | 18 | |
| 13885948069 | ambiguity | A vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings and interpretation. | 19 | |
| 13885948070 | anachronism | A person, scene, event, or other element in literature that fails to correspond with the time or era in which the work is set. | 20 | |
| 13885948071 | aphorism | A short, pithy statement of a generally accepted truth or sentiment. | 21 | |
| 13885948072 | catharsis | A cleansing of the spirit brought about by the pity and terror or a dramatic tragedy. | 22 | |
| 13885948073 | harangue | A forceful sermon, lecture, or tirade. | 23 | |
| 13885948074 | hegemony | a dominant cultural trend | 24 | |
| 13885948075 | idyll | A lyric poem or passage that describes a kind of ideal life or place. | 25 | |
| 13885948076 | kenning | a compound expression in Old English and Old Norse poetry with metaphorical meaning, e.g. oar-steed = ship. | 26 | |
| 13885948077 | lampoon | A mocking, satirical assault on a person or situation. | 27 | |
| 13885948078 | litotes | A form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis or intensity. | 28 | |
| 13885948079 | non sequitur | A statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before. | 29 | |
| 13885948080 | picaresque novel | An episodic novel about a roguelike wanderer who lives off his wits. Ex: Don Quixote, Moll Flanders, Lazarillo de Tormes | 30 |
