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| 9566633122 | envoy | a message to an important person at the end of a poem | 0 | |
| 9566637733 | apostrophe | to address a dead person or other entity as though it is capable of responding | 1 | |
| 9566644603 | lyric poetry | poetry whose main function is to express feelings or impressions | 2 | |
| 9566648110 | narrative poetry | poetry that tells a story | 3 | |
| 9566650291 | sonnet | a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | 4 | |
| 9566654732 | epigram | A brief witty poem, often satirical. | 5 | |
| 9566659428 | epigraph | the use of a quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at its theme | 6 | |
| 9566661745 | elegy | poem or song expressing lamentation | 7 | |
| 9566664846 | epic poetry | a long narrative poem about the adventures of an almost superhuman character | 8 | |
| 9566667549 | villanelle | A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern | 9 | |
| 9566670754 | enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 10 | |
| 9566673801 | metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it | 11 | |
| 9566677744 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part | 12 | |
| 9566680108 | caesura | a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line | 13 | |
| 9566680109 | chiasmus | a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | 14 | |
| 9566682397 | elision | the omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry | 15 | |
| 9566685405 | volta | the shift or point of dramatic change in a poem | 16 |
