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| 7790778039 | Diction | an author's choice of words | 0 | |
| 7790778040 | Poetic Diction | the use of elevated language rather than the ordinary language | 1 | |
| 7790778041 | Formal Diction | dignified, impersonal, and elevated use of language | 2 | |
| 7790778042 | Informal Diction | choice of words in a conversational manner, using slang expression that are not used by culture at large. | 3 | |
| 7790778043 | Dialect | A form of language that is normal for its native group of people but peculiar to other groups of people. | 4 | |
| 7790778044 | Jargon | Special words or expressions that make sense to one group of people but can be hard to understand to other groups. | 5 | |
| 7790778045 | Denotation | the dictionary definition | 6 | |
| 7790778046 | Connotation | the associations that come with a word | 7 | |
| 7790778047 | Persona | the mask of an actor | 8 | |
| 7790778048 | Syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 9 | |
| 7790778049 | Tone | the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. | 10 | |
| 7790778050 | Dramatic Monologue | a poem where the speaker/character addresses the audience in a way to reveal something about their personality. | 11 | |
| 7790778051 | Carpe Diem | "Seize the day" used to urge someone to make the most of the present time and give little thought to the future. | 12 | |
| 7790778052 | Allusion | a reference to something. | 13 | |
| 7790778053 | Perspective | point of view | 14 | |
| 7790778054 | Ballad | narrative poems, tell a story, passed through generations. | 15 | |
| 7790778055 | Literary Ballad | more complex and sophisticated version of a ballad | 16 | |
| 7790778056 | Onomatopoeia | sound of the word suggest its meaning | 17 | |
| 7790778057 | Alliteration | repetition of the same consonant sounds | 18 | |
| 7790778058 | Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | 19 | |
| 7790778059 | Euphony | lines that are smooth, easy to say | 20 | |
| 7790778060 | Cacophony | difficult to say or pronounce, not smooth | 21 | |
| 7790778061 | End Rhyme | rhyme that comes in at the end of lines | 22 | |
| 7790778062 | Internal Rhyme | rhymes in the same line | 23 | |
| 7790778063 | Masculine Rhyme | Single syllable rhymes, or only one syllable rhymes | 24 | |
| 7790778064 | Feminine Rhyme | More than one syllable rhymes | 25 | |
| 7790778065 | Exact Rhyme | Rhymes that share the same stressed vowel sounds that follow the vowel | 26 | |
| 7790778066 | Near Rhyme | The sounds are almost, but don't quite rhyme | 27 | |
| 7790778067 | Consonance | identical consonant preceded by a different vowel | 28 | |
| 7790778068 | Rhythm | a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound. | 29 | |
| 7790778069 | Stress (accent) | Stress is the emphasis that falls on certain syllables and not others | 30 | |
| 7790778070 | Meter | Unit of rhythm | 31 | |
| 7790778071 | Prosody | the study of metre and its uses in lyric, epic, and dramatic verse. | 32 | |
| 7790778072 | Scansion | the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm. | 33 | |
| 7790778073 | Foot | A foot is a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables | 34 | |
| 7790778074 | Rising Meter | one or two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one) | 35 | |
| 7790778075 | Falling Meter- trochees and dactyls (i.e., a stressed syllable followed by one or two unstressed syllables)- | 36 | ||
| 7790778076 | Iambic Pentameter | a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, | 37 | |
| 7790778077 | Blank Verse | verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter. | 38 | |
| 7790778078 | Caesura | a break between words within a metrical foot. | 39 | |
| 7790778079 | Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 40 | |
| 7790778080 | Form | can be understood as the physical structure of thepoem: the length of the lines, their rhythms, their system of rhymes and repetition. | 41 | |
| 7790778081 | Fixed Form | Poems that have a set number of lines, rhymes, and/or metrical arrangements per line. | 42 | |
| 7790778082 | Free Verse (open form) | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter. | 43 | |
| 7790778083 | Couplet | two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. | 44 | |
| 7790778084 | Tercet | a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet. | 45 | |
| 7790778085 | Quatrain | a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes. | 46 | |
| 7790778086 | Sonnet | A 14-line poem with a variable rhyme scheme originating in Italy and brought to England | 47 | |
| 7790778087 | Italian Sonnet | ABBAABBA CDECDE | 48 | |
| 7790778088 | English Sonnet | ABAB CDCD EFEF GG | 49 | |
| 7790778089 | Limerick | A limerick is a form of poetry in five-line, predominantly anapestic meter with a strict rhyme scheme (AABBA), often humorous and sometimes obscene. | 50 | |
| 7790778090 | Haiku | Haiku poems consist of 3 lines. The first and last lines of a Haiku have 5 syllables and the middle line has 7 syllables. | 51 | |
| 7790778091 | Elegy | Poem where someone is dead | 52 | |
| 7790778092 | 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. | 53 | |
| 7790778093 | Parody | Based off of a serious work to make it satirical or funny | 54 | |
| 7790778094 | Picture Poem | A poem where the lines are in such a way to make a picture. | 55 |
