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| 9216131970 | Rhyme | Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words | 0 | |
| 9216131971 | Iambic Pentameter | A line of verse with five metrical feet (pentameter), each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable | 1 | |
| 9216131972 | Simile | A comparison using the word like or as | 2 | |
| 9216134012 | Metaphor | A comparison that describes an object in a way you usually wouldn't (without using like or as) | 3 | |
| 9216138443 | Conceit | An extensive, imaginative, and usually complex comparison or metaphor of two objects. | 4 | |
| 9216263305 | Invocation | The action of appealing to a higher authority for help or guidance. | 5 | |
| 9216293926 | Apostrophe | The act of addressing a person, thing, or idea that isn't present in the poem. | 6 | |
| 9216345245 | Arcane | Something that only a some people have knowledge about; jargon | 7 | |
| 9216364814 | Enjambment | A thought or linie of poetry that continues to the following line; doesn't end at a line break | 8 | |
| 9216364815 | Imagery | Using descriptive words to "paint a picture" in the reader's head | 9 | |
| 9216366828 | Personification | Giving humanlike characteristics | 10 | |
| 9216366829 | Explicit Metaphor | The object or characteristic being compared is stated | 11 | |
| 9216370736 | Exact Rhyme | Exact rhyme is the repetition of the same stressed vowel sound as well as any consonant sounds that follow the vowel. Example: 'Now' and 'Cow' | 12 | |
| 9216466491 | Implicit Metaphor | The object or characteristic being compared is NOT stated | 13 | |
| 9216513444 | Internal Rhyme | Rhyming two words within the same line of poetry. | 14 | |
| 9216513496 | Feminine Rhyme | A rhyme using two or more syllables usually in the end of respective lines | 15 | |
| 9216538647 | Slant Rhyme (aka imperfect, near, oblique, or off) | Rhyme in which two words share just a vowel sound or in which they share just a consonant sound. Examples: 'Heart' and 'Star', 'Milk' and 'Walk' | 16 | |
| 9216541336 | Masculine Rhyme | A rhyme using a single stressed syllable at the end of a line. | 17 | |
| 9216541337 | Iambs | A metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable. | 18 | |
| 9250045248 | Inchoate | Just begun, not so fully formed or developed; redimentary | 19 | |
| 9250045250 | Fallible | Capable of making mistakes or being erroneous. | 20 | |
| 9250045251 | Irreparable | Impossible to repair | 21 | |
| 9250045252 | Polemical | Relating or involving strongly critical/controversial writing or speech | 22 | |
| 9250045253 | Acerbic | Acidic, bitter; sharp and forthright (when referring to a style of speaking) | 23 | |
| 9250045254 | Terza Rima | An arrangement of triplets that rhyme aba bcb cdc, etc. | 24 | |
| 9250045255 | Heroic Couplets | A pair of rhyming iambic pentameters | 25 | |
| 9250045256 | Fastidious | Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail | 26 | |
| 9250045257 | Trochee | A foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable. | 27 | |
| 9250045258 | Trochaic Tetrameter | Four trochaic feet (stressed then unstressed four times) | 28 | |
| 9250045259 | Iambic Trimeter | Three Iambic feet (unstressed then stressed three times) | 29 | |
| 9250045260 | Aphorism | A pithy observation that contains a general truth. Ex: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." | 30 | |
| 9250045261 | Homily | A religious discourse that is intended primarily for spiritual edification rather than doctrinal instruction; a sermon | 31 | |
| 9250045262 | Epigram | A rhetorical device that is a memorable, brief, interesting, and surprising satirical statement. Ex: "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." | 32 | |
| 9250045263 | Axiom | A statement or proposition that is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true. | 33 | |
| 9250045264 | Chiasmus | A rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect. Ex: "Never let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You." | 34 | |
| 9250045265 | Double Entendre | A phrase or a figure of speech that might have multiple senses, interpretations, or two different meanings, or which might be understood in two different ways (the second meaning is usually ironic, risqué, or inappropriate). | 35 | |
| 9250045266 | Oxymoron | Two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. Ex: Open secret, awfully pretty, seriously funny. | 36 | |
| 9250045267 | Antithesis | A rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. Ex: "Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice" or "Speech is silver, but silence is gold." | 37 | |
| 9250045268 | Pedantic | To be too concerned with literal accuracy or formality. Being a "show off" in a tiresome way. | 38 | |
| 9250045269 | Didactic | Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive. | 39 | |
| 9250045270 | Moralistic | Overfond of making moral judgements about others' behavior; too ready to moralize. | 40 | |
| 9250045271 | Adagelike | To have attributes of an adage (a proverb or short statement expressing a general truth) | 41 | |
| 9250045273 | Anaphora | The deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect. Ex: "MY LIFE is my purpose. MY LIFE is my goal. MY LIFE is my inspiration." | 42 | |
| 9250122960 | Assonance | When two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds. Ex: "The enginEEr held the stEEring to stEEr the vehicle." | 43 | |
| 9250122961 | Fatalistic | Relating to or characteristic of the belief that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable. | 44 | |
| 9250122962 | Apathetic | Showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm, or concern. | 45 | |
| 9250122963 | Penurious | Extremely poor; poverty-stricken | 46 | |
| 9250122964 | Metonymy | A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated (but not directly apart of). Ex: Relating power or authority with a crown. | 47 | |
| 9250122965 | Synecdoche | A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole, or it may use a whole to represent a part. Ex: Calling a car a "wheel" | 48 | |
| 9250122967 | Epistrophe | The repetition of phrases or words at the ends of the clauses or sentences. It is also called "epiphora." | 49 | |
| 9250122968 | Refrain | Refrain is a verse, a line, a set, or a group of lines that appears at the end of stanza, or appears where a poem divides into different sections. Refrain is a poetic device that repeats, at regular intervals, in different stanzas. | 50 | |
| 9250122970 | Ballad | It is a type of poetry or verse which was basically used in dance songs in ancient France. It remained a powerful tool for poets and lyricists to prepare music in the form of lyrical ballads. Narration of story through short stanzas | 51 | |
| 9250122971 | Sestina | A type of a poem that contains six stanzas, each stanza having six lines, while a concluding seventh stanza has three lines called "envoi," which is also known as "tornada." As sestina derives its name from fixed structure and characteristics, it is as popular as the sextain. Unlike other poetic forms, sestina does not rhyme. However, it has rhythmic quality on account of the repetition of the final six words of the first stanza that recur in the remaining poem. Hence, a sestina follows the rule of an end word pattern. | 52 | |
| 9250122972 | Sonnet | A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line | 53 | |
| 9250122973 | Ode | A literary technique that is lyrical in nature, but not very lengthy. | 54 | |
| 9250122974 | Elegy | A form of literature that can be defined as a poem or song in the form of elegiac couplets, written in honor of someone deceased. It typically laments or mourns the death of the individual. | 55 | |
| 9250122975 | Villanelle | A poetic device which requires a poem to have 19 lines and a fixed form. It has five tercets (first 15 lines), a quatrain (last four lines), and a couplet at the end of the quatrain. | 56 | |
| 9250122976 | Free Verse | A free verse poem has no set meter; that is to say there is no rhyming scheme present, and the poem doesn't follow a set pattern. | 57 | |
| 9250122977 | Closed Form | An adopted pattern that a poem follows. Ex: A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem | 58 | |
| 9250122978 | Neoclassicism | The name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of classical antiquity. Started in Rome mid-18th century | 59 | |
| 9250122979 | Postmodernism | The name given to the late-20th century movement across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism. Can apply to era following modernity. | 60 | |
| 9250122980 | Realism | The attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic, and supernatural elements. | 61 | |
| 9250122981 | Imagism | A movement in early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. Start of Modernism | 62 | |
| 9250122982 | Naturalism | The "idea or belief that only natural (as opposed to supernatural or spiritual) laws and forces operate in the world." Adherents of naturalism (i.e., naturalists) assert that natural laws are the rules that govern the structure and behavior of the natural universe, that the changing universe at every stage is a product of these laws. | 63 | |
| 9250329889 | Envoy | An envoi or envoy is a short stanza at the end of a poem such as ballad used either to address an imagined or actual person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem. | 64 | |
| 9255848608 | Tercet | A three lined verse or a group/unit of three lines | 65 | |
| 9255864987 | Blank Verse | Having iambic pentameter but no rhyming | 66 | |
| 9255889510 | Open form | An open form poem doesn't follow set guidelines. There A free verse poem has no set meter; that is to say there is no rhyming scheme present, and the poem doesn't follow a set pattern. | 67 | |
| 9255950499 | Modernism | A movement that has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America, and is characterized by a very self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction. | 68 | |
| 9697472176 | Consonance | 69 |
