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| 9688231754 | Allegory | A work that functions on a symbollic level. | 0 | |
| 9688234954 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds. | 1 | |
| 9848127437 | Allusion | A reference contained in a work. | 2 | |
| 9848129067 | Apostrophe | Direct address in poetry. | 3 | |
| 9848131134 | Aside | Words spoken by an actor intended to be heard by the audience. | 4 | |
| 9848133498 | Aubade | A love poem set at dawn that says goodbye to a beloved. | 5 | |
| 9848135612 | Ballad | A simple narrative poem, incorporating dialogue that is written in quatrains. | 6 | |
| 9848139024 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter. The form of most Shakespeare's plays. | 7 | |
| 9848162057 | Catharsis | According to Aristotle, the release of emotion that the audience of a tragedy experiences. | 8 | |
| 9848164062 | Caesura | A break or pause within a line of poetry indicated by punctuation and used to emphasize meaning. | 9 | |
| 9848170192 | Cacophony | Harsh and discordant sounds in a line or passage of a literary work. | 10 | |
| 9848172787 | Connotation | The interpretive level of a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning. | 11 | |
| 9848177738 | Convention | A traditional aspect of literary work such as a soliloquy or a tragic hero. | 12 | |
| 9848180845 | Couplet | Two lines of rhyming poetry used to stress an important idea or to conclude a scene. | 13 | |
| 9848185045 | Dactyl | A foot of poetry consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables. | 14 | |
| 9848194458 | Denotation | The literal or dictionary meaning of a word. | 15 | |
| 9848198099 | Diction | The author's choice of words. | 16 | |
| 9848199496 | Dramatic Monologue | A type of poem that presents a conversation between a speaker and an implied listener. | 17 | |
| 9848202978 | Elegy | A poem that laments the dead or a loss. | 18 | |
| 9848204312 | Enjambment | A technique in poetry that involves the running on of a line or stanza. Helps develop coherence and move the poem along. | 19 | |
| 9848209203 | Epigram | A brief witty Poem. | 20 | |
| 9848215660 | Euphony | The pleasant, mellifluous presentation of sounds in a literary work. | 21 | |
| 9848220971 | Fable | A simple, symbolic story usually employing animals as characters. | 22 | |
| 9848222758 | Foot | A metrical unit in poetry; a syllabic measure of a line: iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl, and spondee. | 23 | |
| 9848227076 | Free verse | Poetry without a defined form, meter, or rhyme scheme. | 24 | |
| 9848229501 | Iamb | A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one. | 25 | |
| 9848234745 | Idyll | Atype of lyric poetry which extols the virtues of an ideal place or time. | 26 | |
| 9848238955 | Lyric poetry | A type of poetry characterized by emotion, personal feelings, and brevity. | 27 | |
| 9848242143 | Magical realism | A type of poetry that explores narratives by and about characters who inhabit and experience their reality differently from what we term the objective world. | 28 | |
| 9848248272 | Metaphysical Poetry | Poems that explore highly complex philosophical ideas through extended metaphors and paradox. | 29 | |
| 9848255275 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea. | 30 | |
| 9848256837 | Motif | The repetition of variations of an image or idea in a work which is used to develop theme or characters. | 31 | |
| 9848262341 | Octave | An eight-line stanza, usually combined with a sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet. | 32 | |
| 9848267193 | Ode | A formal, lengthy poem that celebrates a particular subject. | 33 | |
| 9848273765 | Parable | A story that operates on more than one level, usually to teach a moral lesson. | 34 | |
| 9848277463 | Parallel plot | A second story that mimics and reinforces the main plot. | 35 | |
| 9848279804 | Pathos | The aspects of a literary work that elicit pity from an audience. | 36 | |
| 9848285738 | Romanticism | A style or movement of literature that has its foundation an interest in freedom, adventure, idealism, and escape. | 37 | |
| 9848289809 | Sestet | A sex-line stanza, usually paired with an octave to form a Petrarchan Sonnet. | 38 | |
| 9848292956 | Sestina | A highly stuctured poetic form of 39 lines, written in iambic pentameter. Depends on the repetition of six words from the first stanza in each of the six stanzas. | 39 | |
| 9848300460 | Soliloquy | A speech in a play which is used to reveal the character's inner thoughts to the audience. | 40 | |
| 9848302872 | Spondee | A poetic foot consisting of two accented syllables. | 41 | |
| 9848313229 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of the whole. | 42 | |
| 9848317584 | Villanelle | A highly structured poetic form that comprises six stanzas: five tercets and a quatrain. The poem repeats the first and third lines throughout. | 43 |
