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| 4341033495 | Meter | Describes the rhythm of stresses structured into a recurrence of regular units of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 0 | |
| 4341033496 | Foot | A rhythmic unit into which a line of metrical verse is divided. | 1 | |
| 4341033497 | Stanza | A group of verse lines forming a section of a poem. | 2 | |
| 4341033498 | Enjambment | Run-on lines | 3 | |
| 4341033499 | End-Stopped | The pause in the reading of a poem. | 4 | |
| 4341033500 | Caesura | A strong phrasal pause falls within a line; provides sentence with emphasis. | 5 | |
| 4341033501 | Rhyme | The identity of sound between syllables or paired groups of syllables. | 6 | |
| 4341033502 | Iambic Pentameter | Five metric feet of a light syllable followed by a stressed syllable. | 7 | |
| 4341033503 | Heroic Couplet | Iambic pentameter lines rhymed in pairs | 8 | |
| 4341033504 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 9 | |
| 4341033505 | Free Verse | Poetry which is not written in a traditional meter. | 10 | |
| 4341033506 | Sonnet | A 14 line, iambic pentameter poem | 11 | |
| 4341033507 | Villanelle | Composed of uneven number of tercets. | 12 | |
| 4341033508 | Terza Rima | Verse composed of three-line stanzas with interlocking rhyme scheme. | 13 | |
| 4341033509 | Royal Rhyme | A seven-line poetic stanza written in iambic pentameter. | 14 | |
| 4341033510 | Tone | The authors attitude and relationship to his material. | 15 | |
| 4341033511 | Diction | Word choice. | 16 | |
| 4341033512 | Syntax | Sentence patterns. | 17 | |
| 4341033513 | Metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things suggesting a shared common quality. | 18 | |
| 4341033514 | Simile | Comparison of two unlike things using like or as. | 19 | |
| 4341033515 | Personification | Giving human qualities to inanimate things. | 20 | |
| 4341033516 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for purpose and effect. | 21 | |
| 4341033517 | Irony | An unexpected twist. | 22 | |
| 4341033518 | Litotes | An affirmation made indirectly by denying it's opposite. | 23 | |
| 4341033519 | Alliteration | The repitition of initial consonant or vowels sounds. | 24 | |
| 4341033520 | Synecdoche | A part represents the whole. | 25 | |
| 4341033521 | Metonomy | Something closely associated. | 26 | |
| 4341033522 | Apostrophe | A direct and explicit address either to an absent person or nonhuman entity. | 27 | |
| 4341033523 | Oxymoron | A rhetorical figure the juxtaposes two opposites. | 28 | |
| 4341033524 | Anastrophe | A reversal of word order to make a point. | 29 | |
| 4341033525 | Allusion | Reference to mythology. | 30 | |
| 4341033526 | Denotation | The exact meaning of a word. | 31 | |
| 4341033527 | Connotation | The implied meaning of a word. | 32 | |
| 4341033528 | Conceit | An argument, a comparison. | 33 | |
| 4341033529 | Tenor | The subject of any figure of speech. | 34 | |
| 4341033530 | Vehicle | The comparison used to convey message. | 35 | |
| 4341033531 | Aphorism | A brief statement of a general truth. | 36 | |
| 4341033532 | Aesthetics | The study of the nature of and the response to beauty and art. | 37 | |
| 4341056021 | Allegory | A literal work in which objects, persons, or events are equated with a meaning outside the work itself. | 38 | |
| 4341056022 | Atmosphere | The general over-all feeling of a work. | 39 | |
| 4341056023 | Analogy | A comparison of ideas or objects which are essentially different but are alike in 1 way. | 40 | |
| 4341056024 | Assonance | The repitition in lines of verse of the same vowel. | 41 |
