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| 9290006991 | onomatopoeia | word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the sound that it describes | 0 | |
| 9290020928 | alliteration | the repetition of initial sounds in words and syllables | 1 | |
| 9290028734 | assonance | repetition of similar vowel sounds (ex. earth, hearth) | 2 | |
| 9290048356 | consonance | repetition of consonants appearing within a line or at the end of words (ex. odds and ends) | 3 | |
| 9290127287 | caesura | some lines of internal pauses that are usually indicated by a period, a semicolon, a dash, or other punctuation | 4 | |
| 9290191928 | enjambment | indicated by an absence of punctuation and eliminates the need to pause (run-on) | 5 | |
| 9290212360 | free verse | ignores conventions of meter and rhythm | 6 | |
| 9290224379 | blank verse | (unrhymed verse) incorporates conventional meter | 7 | |
| 9290318732 | stanzas | grouped lines of verse that serves as a poem's building block | 8 | |
| 9332154326 | diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing | 9 | |
| 9332122607 | metaphor | a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable | 10 | |
| 9332131590 | simile | the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid | 11 | |
| 9332161663 | symbol | communicates a second meaning along with the literal meaning | 12 | |
| 9332169139 | image | words and phrases that refer to something that can be seen, heard, tasted, smelled, or touched | 13 | |
| 9332173221 | personification | assigns human characteristics to a nonhuman object or to an abstraction such as love, death, envy, victory, etc... | 14 | |
| 9332182424 | metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, (suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing) | 15 | |
| 9332201637 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 16 | |
| 9332208815 | allusion | historical, literary, or cultural reference to a person, a place, or event | 17 | |
| 9332223391 | allegory | a story or vignette that has both a literal and a figurative meaning | 18 | |
| 9332228151 | oxymoron | a phrase that seem self-contradictory or incompatible with reality | 19 | |
| 9332233844 | litotes | a form of understatement in which a positive fact is stated by denying a negative fact | 20 | |
| 9332255193 | hyperbole | an exaggeration | 21 | |
| 9332260543 | tone | the general character or attitude of the piece of writing | 22 | |
| 9332267790 | irony | a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result | 23 | |
| 9332279473 | narrative poem | tells part or all of a story (a poem) | 24 | |
| 9332283012 | lyric poem | expresses an individual's thoughts and emotions (a poem) | 25 | |
| 9332300896 | ballad | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas | 26 | |
| 9332303653 | couplet | two rhymed lines, usually in the same meter | 27 | |
| 9332306481 | dramatic monologue | a poem spoken by one person to a listener | 28 | |
| 9332309883 | elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead | 29 | |
| 9332313572 | limerick | a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming "aabba" | 30 | |
| 9332323084 | ode | a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter | 31 | |
| 9332325962 | sonnet | a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line | 32 | |
| 9332331860 | villanelle | a nineteen-line poem with 5 three-line stanzas and a concluding quatrain | 33 |
