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| 15033870135 | Irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning | 0 | |
| 15033874608 | Itlaian sonnet | consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd. | 1 | |
| 15033910506 | Litote | A figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement | 2 | |
| 15034584527 | lyric poems | usually short poems that express the deep personal feelings of the writer | 3 | |
| 15034591532 | masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable | 4 | |
| 15034639328 | Metaphor | implies comparison between two unlike entities | 5 | |
| 15034650009 | metaphysical poetry | highly intellectualized poetry marked by bold and ingenious conceits, incongruous imagery, complexity and subtlety of thought, frequent use of paradox, and often by deliberate harshness or rigidity of expression | 6 | |
| 15034655372 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 7 | |
| 15034674290 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 8 | |
| 15034677663 | Monometer | one foot per line | 9 | |
| 15034684474 | narrative poem | a poem that tells a story | 10 | |
| 15034688812 | Octave | 8 line stanza | 11 | |
| 15034691400 | Ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 12 | |
| 15034709488 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 13 | |
| 15034711312 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 14 | |
| 15034713564 | paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | 15 | |
| 15034718223 | parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 16 | |
| 15034720684 | Pentameter | a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet | 17 | |
| 15034723963 | Personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | 18 | |
| 15034731391 | Phonetic Incentives | A word whose sound suggests is meaning | 19 | |
| 15034734510 | Quatrain | A four line stanza | 20 | |
| 15034739826 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer | 21 | |
| 15034742696 | rhyme scheme | the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse. | 22 | |
| 15034745571 | run-on line (enjambment) | a line that ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning | 23 | |
| 15034748489 | Scansion | the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm | 24 | |
| 15034750550 | Sestet | the last six lines of a sonnet | 25 | |
| 15034753633 | Similie | comparing two things using like or as | 26 | |
| 15034756243 | slant rhyme | rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme | 27 | |
| 15034758793 | Sonnet | a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | 28 | |
| 15034762029 | Speaker | the voice of the poem | 29 | |
| 15034765655 | spondee (spondaic) | a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables. | 30 | |
| 15034768909 | Stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 31 | |
| 15034801383 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 32 | |
| 15034803947 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 33 | |
| 15034806736 | Tercet | 3 line stanza | 34 | |
| 15034809355 | Tetrameter | 4 feet per line | 35 | |
| 15034812280 | Theme | Central idea of a work of literature | 36 | |
| 15034815334 | Tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. | 37 | |
| 15034817590 | Trimeter | 3 feet per line | 38 | |
| 15034828266 | Trochee (trochaic) | a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable. | 39 | |
| 15034831667 | Villanelle | A French verse form calculated to appear simple and spontaneous but consisting of nineteen lines and a prescribed pattern of rhymes | 40 | |
| 15034946663 | Volta | the shift or point of dramatic change in a poem | 41 | |
| 15034946666 | Zeugma | a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses | 42 |
