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| 4085952717 | *Doggerel* | bad, irregular poetry | 0 | |
| 4085964473 | *Epic* | a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds (The Odyssey, The Illiad) | 1 | |
| 4085969414 | *Cliche* | An overused expression | 2 | |
| 4085985685 | *Poetic Diction* | formal language | 3 | |
| 4085987732 | *Middle Diction* | somewhat formal, no slang | 4 | |
| 4085990122 | *Informal Diction* | regular language, slang | 5 | |
| 4085993099 | *Denotation* | literal, Dictionary meaning | 6 | |
| 4085995254 | *Connotation* | implied meaning | 7 | |
| 4085996486 | *Persona* | A characters pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. | 8 | |
| 4086007447 | *Ambiguity* | uncertainty, many possible interpretations | 9 | |
| 4086014272 | *Dramatic Monologue* | speaker addresses audience and reveals how they feel and what they're thinking | 10 | |
| 4086031894 | *Implied Metaphor* | Implies or suggests the comparison between the two thing without stating it directly | 11 | |
| 4086033401 | *Extended Metaphor* | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. | 12 | |
| 4086035342 | *Synecdoche* | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa (wheels= a car) | 13 | |
| 4086040209 | *Metonymy* | something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it (crown= power) | 14 | |
| 4086061529 | *Apostrophe* | someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply | 15 | |
| 4086063568 | *Hyperbole* | using exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 16 | |
| 4086072254 | *Understatement* | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 17 | |
| 4086073357 | *Paradox* | contradicts itself, defies logic (bittersweet; you can save money by spending it) | 18 | |
| 4086080274 | *Oxymoron* | combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase(seriously funny; alone together) | 19 | |
| 4086091713 | *Allegory* | characters or events reveal an inner meaning or message | 20 | |
| 4086146618 | *Didactic Poetry* | primary purpose of teaching or preaching | 21 | |
| 4086147667 | *Situational Irony* | situation is different from what you thought | 22 | |
| 4086149922 | *Verbal Irony* | what is said is different from what is meant | 23 | |
| 4086163269 | *Satire* | reveals criticism against human behavior | 24 | |
| 4086169251 | *Dramatic Irony* | audience understands what the characters do not | 25 | |
| 4086173869 | *Cosmic Irony* | fate, God, Universe in charge | 26 | |
| 4086237773 | *Ballad* | poem narrating a story in short four-line stanzas | 27 | |
| 4086242578 | *Literary Ballads* | a story told in verse and usually meant to be sung | 28 | |
| 4086246568 | *Alliteration* | repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning( peter's piglet pranced) | 29 | |
| 4086250102 | *Assonance* | repeated vowel sound(spain rain plain) | 30 | |
| 4086258238 | *Eye rhyme* | words whose spellings lead you to think that they rhyme (move; love) | 31 | |
| 4086262941 | *End rhyme* | rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry | 32 | |
| 4086265848 | *Internal rhyme* | a word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | 33 | |
| 4086266809 | *Masculine rhyme* | a rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable-(spent, went)(thee; spree) | 34 | |
| 4086269244 | *Feminine rhyme* | lines rhymed by their final two syllables (running, gunning)(fainted; acquainted) | 35 | |
| 4086289979 | *near rhyme* | sounds are almost but not exactly alike(bridge; grudge) | 36 | |
| 4086303597 | *Consonance* | repetition of consonant sounds(ship has sailed to the far off shores) | 37 | |
| 4086322071 | *Iambic* | unstressed; stressed | 38 | |
| 4086365672 | *Trochaic* | stressed; unstressed | 39 | |
| 4086368672 | *Dactylic* | stressed; unstressed; stressed | 40 | |
| 4086370403 | *Anapestic* | unstressed; unstressed; stressed | 41 | |
| 4086383422 | *Spondaic* | stressed; stressed | 42 | |
| 4086399461 | *Blank Verse* | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 43 | |
| 4086490590 | *Masculine Ending* | a line that ends with a stressed syllable | 44 | |
| 4086492273 | *Feminine Ending* | a line that ends with a unstressed syllable | 45 | |
| 4086495914 | *Enjambment* | a continuation sentence in the next line | 46 | |
| 4086498817 | *Heroic Couplet* | a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style | 47 | |
| 4086503747 | *Tercet* | 3 line stanza | 48 | |
| 4086507933 | *Triplet* | a kind of tercet that follows rules | 49 | |
| 4086520797 | *Terza Rima* | arrangement of triplets; aba, bcb, cdc | 50 | |
| 4086531537 | *Quatrain* | four line stanza | 51 | |
| 4086533856 | *Sonnet* | 14 line poem | 52 | |
| 4086535676 | *Italian Sonnet* | includes an octave and a sestet | 53 | |
| 4086545901 | *Villanelle* | A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern | 54 | |
| 4086566016 | *Sestina* | 6 six-line stanzas ending with tercet; | 55 | |
| 4086567842 | ** | 56 |
