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| 9769353646 | pedantic | tending to show off one's learning | 0 | |
| 9769416825 | effusive | emotionally unrestrained; gushy | 1 | |
| 9769423197 | eclectic | made up of a variety of sources or styles | 2 | |
| 9769468180 | prosaic | unimaginative; dull | 3 | |
| 9769472820 | satirical | exposing human folly to ridicule | 4 | |
| 9769481652 | didactic | intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive | 5 | |
| 9769501777 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 6 | |
| 9769525557 | litotes | ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary | 7 | |
| 9769541539 | maudlin | excessively sentimental | 8 | |
| 9769546600 | reticent | inclined to keep silent; reserved | 9 | |
| 9769552725 | metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it | 10 | |
| 9769559443 | synechoche | A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 11 | |
| 9769572566 | raucous | unpleasantly loud and harsh | 12 | |
| 9769583625 | paradox | an apparently contradictory statement that actually contains some truth | 13 | |
| 9769589263 | juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 14 | |
| 9769601340 | figurative language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. | 15 | |
| 9769609523 | understatement | a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said | 16 | |
| 9769623803 | apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | 17 | |
| 9769630139 | ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 18 | |
| 9769634103 | motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea | 19 | |
| 12591103220 | Irony | A contrast between expectation and reality | 20 | |
| 12591114431 | Caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 21 | |
| 12591124040 | Eye Rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling but does not rhyme because of pronunciation | 22 | |
| 12591131457 | Masculine Rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable (one stressed syllable) | 23 | |
| 12591219665 | Feminine Rhyme | lines rhymed by their final two syllables | 24 | |
| 12591236125 | Figure of Speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning. | 25 | |
| 12591249383 | Stanza | a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem | 26 | |
| 12591257134 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 27 | |
| 12591263767 | Rhyme | Identical or very similar recurring final sounds in words usually at the end of lines of a poem. | 28 | |
| 12591278827 | Enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. | 29 | |
| 12591287378 | End-Stopped | a term that describes a line of poetry that ends with a natural pause often indicated by a mark of punctuation | 30 | |
| 12591297977 | Italian Sonnet | a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd | 31 | |
| 12591305392 | Shakespearean Sonnet | a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg | 32 | |
| 12591311277 | Quatrain | A four line stanza | 33 | |
| 12591314337 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 34 | |
| 12591320058 | Iambic Pentameter | a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable | 35 | |
| 12591325472 | Heroic Couplet | two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit (Rhymed in pairs) | 36 | |
| 12591341045 | Villanelle | A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern | 37 | |
| 12591356587 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 38 | |
| 12591362932 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 39 | |
| 12591368304 | Blank Verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 40 | |
| 12591373986 | Free Verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 41 | |
| 12591377626 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 42 | |
| 12591380802 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 43 | |
| 12591390207 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 44 | |
| 12591396592 | Sonnet | a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. | 45 | |
| 12591399304 | Ballad | A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. | 46 | |
| 12591405198 | Aubade | A poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn | 47 | |
| 12591409057 | Pastoral | A work of literature dealing with rural life | 48 | |
| 12591412870 | Sestina | a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi. | 49 |
