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| 8908235463 | Shakespearean sonnet | Another word for English sonnet. | 0 | |
| 8908235464 | Italian sonnet | A style of sonnet made popular by Petrarch which has an octave followed by a sestet. | 1 | |
| 8908235465 | Turn | The word for the point in a sonnet where there is a shift in the thought or argument. Also known as the Volta, this shift happens between the octave and the sestet in Petrarchan or Italian sonnets. | 2 | |
| 8908235466 | Sonnet | A fourteen-line poem that is commonly written in iambic pentameter. | 3 | |
| 8908235467 | Apostrophe | The literary convention for speaking directly to an object, an idea, or someone's who doesn't exist or is not present. Ex: "Oh, Christmas tree, oh, Christmas tree, how lovely are your branches." | 4 | |
| 8908235468 | Imagery | Language that appeals to the senses. | 5 | |
| 8908235469 | Allusion | A reference to someone or something from literature, history, sports, science, or popular culture. | 6 | |
| 8908235470 | Metaphor | The comparison of two things without using like or as. | 7 | |
| 8908235471 | Doggerel | The term for bad Verse traditionally characterized by clichés, clumsiness, and/or irregular rhythm for comic effect. | 8 | |
| 8908235472 | Enjambment | The word for the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 9 | |
| 8908235473 | Mixed metaphor | The term for a combination of two or more incompatible metaphors, which produces a ridiculous effect. | 10 | |
| 8908235474 | Simile | A figure of speech involving the direct comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind by using the words "like" or "as". | 11 | |
| 8908235475 | Epic | A type of long poem narrating the heroic exploits of an individual in a way central to the beliefs and culture of a society. Typical elements include fabulous adventures, superhuman deeds, elevated language, and a mythical setting. | 12 | |
| 8908235476 | Pastoral narrative | The type of narrative poem which takes place in a rural, often idyllic, setting. | 13 | |
| 8908235477 | Iamb | The word for a metrical foot or unit of measure consisting of two syllables, an unstressed followed by a stressed, as in the word desire. | 14 | |
| 8908235478 | Narrative | The word for a poem which tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters as well. | 15 | |
| 8908235479 | Iambic pentameter | The word for a type of verse containing five pairs of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables as in ba-bum / ba-bum / ba-bum / ba-bum / ba-bum. | 16 | |
| 8908235480 | Pentameter | The word for a line of verse consisting of a five metrical feet. | 17 | |
| 8908235481 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. | 18 | |
| 8908235482 | Quatrain | A stanza containing four lines of verse. | 19 | |
| 8908235483 | Foil | The term for a character who sets of another character by strong contrast. | 20 | |
| 8908235484 | Octave | A stanza containing eight lines. | 21 | |
| 8908235485 | Blank verse | The word for I rhymed iambic pentameter. | 22 | |
| 8908235486 | Sestet | A six-line stanza. | 23 | |
| 8908235487 | Tercet | The word for a three-line stanza. | 24 | |
| 8908235488 | Iambic tetrameter | The word for a verse with four iambs per line. | 25 | |
| 8908235489 | Haiku | A traditional Japanese tercet with a 5/7/5 syllable count. | 26 | |
| 8908235490 | Extended Metaphor | The term for a metaphor that is continued throughout the text. | 27 | |
| 8908235491 | Onomatopoeia | The use of words to imitate sound as in sizzle, pop, & meow. | 28 | |
| 8908235492 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words that are close to together (Peter Piper Picked a Pickled Pepper). | 29 | |
| 8908235493 | Assonance | The repetition of vowels sounds in words that are close together (The only other sound's the sweep / Of easy wind and downy flake). | 30 | |
| 8908235494 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that places two contradictory words together as in "old news" or "jumbo shrimp". | 31 | |
| 8908235495 | Paradox | A contradictory statement that has an element of truth. | 32 | |
| 8908235496 | Symbolism | The use of an object, person, place, or event that has both a meaning in itself and stands for something larger than itself. | 33 | |
| 8908235497 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it such as saying "The Crown" or "The White House". | 34 | |
| 8908235498 | Free verse | The type of poetry hat has no prescribed pattern or structure. | 35 | |
| 8908235499 | Ode | A lyric poem that often expresses lofty emotions in an elevated style. | 36 | |
| 8908235500 | Elegy | A poem written to honor or memorialize the dead. | 37 | |
| 8908235501 | Synesthesia | A figure of speech in which one sense is described using terms from another as in "I smell trouble". | 38 | |
| 8908235502 | Foil | A character who sets off another character by strong contrast. | 39 |
