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| 6678343226 | analogy | clarifies or explains an unfamiliar concept or object by comparing it with one that is similar | 0 | |
| 6678343227 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds in words close together | 1 | |
| 6678343228 | conceit | a fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects | 2 | |
| 6678343229 | elegy | a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead | 3 | |
| 6678343230 | enjambment | the continuation of meaning, without pause or break, from one line of poetry to the next, with no punctuation at the end line | 4 | |
| 6678343231 | epic | a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | 5 | |
| 6678343232 | consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of a words which are close together, e.g., east, west, best, test, trust, burst | 6 | |
| 6678343234 | internal rhyme | a rhyme between words in the same line | 7 | |
| 6678343235 | lyric poem | highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker | 8 | |
| 6678343236 | slant rhyme | rhymes that are close but not exact: lap/shape, glorious/nefarious. | 9 | |
| 6678343237 | ode | a poem usually addressed to a particular person, object or event that has stimulated deep and noble feelings in the poet | 10 | |
| 6678343238 | pastoral | a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds) | 11 | |
| 6678343239 | quatrain | a stanza of four lines | 12 | |
| 6678343240 | sonnet | Fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes. | 13 | |
| 6678343241 | stanza | a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem | 14 | |
| 6678343242 | symbol | something that stands for something else | 15 | |
| 6678343243 | theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work | 16 | |
| 6678343244 | epiphany | a moment of sudden revelation or insight | 17 | |
| 6678343246 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction | 18 | |
| 6678343247 | shift | movement from one idea or a particular tone to another | 19 | |
| 6678343250 | refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. | 20 | |
| 6678360442 | octave | The first 8 lines of a sonnet | 21 | |
| 6678362591 | sestet | The last 6 lines of a sonnet | 22 | |
| 6678364857 | volta | The shift in a poem, typically a sonnet at line 9 or 13 for an English sonnet, line 9 for an Italian | 23 | |
| 6678372676 | English (Shakespearean) sonnet | abab,cdcd,efef,gg | 24 | |
| 6678375146 | heroic or rhyming couplet | two lines of rhyme, in iambic pentameter | 25 | |
| 6678384658 | capping couplet | two ending lines of rhymed poetry, typically at the end of a sonnet | 26 |
