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| 11025279576 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 0 | |
| 11025279577 | foot | unit of meter | 1 | |
| 11025279578 | iamb | unstressed stressed pattern |  | 2 |
| 11025279579 | trochee | stressed unstressed pattern |  | 3 |
| 11025279580 | anapest | 3 syllables - stress on the last |  | 4 |
| 11025279581 | spondee | two stressed syllables - heartbreak |  | 5 |
| 11025279582 | dactyl | 3 syllables - stress on the first | 6 | |
| 11025279583 | pyrrhic | two unstressed syllables | 7 | |
| 11025279584 | monometer | one foot line | 8 | |
| 11025279585 | dimeter | two foot line | 9 | |
| 11025279586 | trimeter | three foot line | 10 | |
| 11025279587 | tetrameter | four foot line | 11 | |
| 11025279588 | pentameter | five foot line | 12 | |
| 11025279589 | hexameter | six foot line | 13 | |
| 11025279590 | heptameter | seven foot line | 14 | |
| 11025279591 | octometer | eight foot line | 15 | |
| 11025279592 | blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 16 | |
| 11025279593 | slant rhyme | A rhyme based on imperfect or incomplete correspondence of end syllable sounds. Synonymous with " imperfect", "off" or "near" rhyme. |  | 17 |
| 11025279594 | masculine rhyme | rhymes of one syllable |  | 18 |
| 11025279595 | feminine rhyme | last two syllables rhyme - lawful and awful - more complex |  | 19 |
| 11025279596 | triple rhyme | last three syllables rhyme - quivering and shivering | 20 | |
| 11025279597 | alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds |  | 21 |
| 11025279598 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. |  | 22 |
| 11025279599 | assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity |  | 23 |
| 11025279600 | consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. |  | 24 |
| 11025279601 | refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. | 25 | |
| 11025279602 | simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" |  | 26 |
| 11025279603 | metaphor | A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared. |  | 27 |
| 11025279604 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |  | 28 |
| 11025279605 | synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword). |  | 29 |
| 11025279606 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it |  | 30 |
| 11025279607 | symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. |  | 31 |
| 11025279608 | allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 32 | |
| 11025279609 | overstatement | Exaggeration - "rivers of blood" |  | 33 |
| 11025279610 | understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. |  | 34 |
| 11025279611 | antithesis | A statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced |  | 35 |
| 11025279612 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. |  | 36 |
| 11025279613 | dramatic irony | In this type of irony, facts or events are unknown to a character in a play or a piece of fiction but known to the reader, audience, or other characters in the work |  | 37 |
| 11025279614 | irony of situation | refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended |  | 38 |
| 11025279615 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |  | 39 |
| 11025279616 | paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |  | 40 |
| 11025279617 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |  | 41 |
| 11025279618 | stanza | A group of lines in a poem |  | 42 |
| 11025279619 | couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 43 | |
| 11025279620 | triplet | three line stanza | 44 | |
| 11025279621 | quatrain | A four line stanza | 45 | |
| 11025279622 | sestet | 6 line stanza | 46 | |
| 11025279623 | septet | 7 line stanza | 47 | |
| 11025279624 | octave | 8 line stanza | 48 | |
| 11025279625 | heroic couplet | a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style - complete thought | 49 | |
| 11025279626 | terza rima | A series of three-line stanzas (tercets) with a defined, "interlocking" rhyme scheme (aba, bcb, cdc, etc.). Most are written in iambic pentameter but, whatever the meter, the established meter remains the same throughout the poem. Shorter poems written in this style can end in a couplet. |  | 50 |
| 11025279627 | limerick | 5 line poem, usually funny - usually a -a-b-b-a | 51 | |
| 11025279628 | ballad stanza | A four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, consisting of alternating eight- and six-syllable lines. | 52 | |
| 11025279629 | rime royal | A stanza consisting of seven lines in Iambic pentameter rhyming a b a b b c c. | 53 | |
| 11025279630 | ottava rima | a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme abababcc | 54 | |
| 11025279631 | spenserian stanza | a stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c | 55 | |
| 11025279632 | Petrarchan sonnet (Italian) | octave and sestet - corresponds to division of thought - structure reflects meaning - often the octave will present a situation/idea and the sestet an answer | 56 | |
| 11025279633 | Shakespearean sonnet (English) | a poem that is fourteen lines in length. It is divided into three quatrains and a concluding couplet, which has a rhyme scheme a-b-a-b c-d-c-d e-f-e-f g-g. The units marked off by the rhymes and the development of the thought often correspond. |  | 57 |
| 11025279634 | villanelle | a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. |  | 58 |
| 11025279635 | elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. |  | 59 |
| 11025279636 | ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 60 | |
| 11025279637 | lyric | emotional poem - often regular rhyme scheme | 61 | |
| 11025279638 | allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. Allusions can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical. There are many more possibilities, and a work may simultaneously use multiple layers of allusion. |  | 62 |
| 11025279639 | anachronism | Something that is not in its correct historical time; a mistake in chronology, such as by assigning a person or event to the wrong time period |  | 63 |
| 11025279640 | anecdote | A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event. - THE CHAPSTICK STORY |  | 64 |
| 11025279641 | antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. |  | 65 |
| 11025279642 | aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. |  | 66 |
| 11025279643 | archetype | A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response |  | 67 |
| 11025279644 | conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. | 68 | |
| 11025279645 | connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests |  | 69 |
| 11025279646 | enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. |  | 70 |
| 11025279647 | end-stopped line | A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation |  | 71 |
| 11025279648 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |  | 72 |
| 11025279649 | narrative poem | a poem that tells a story | 73 | |
| 11025279650 | parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson |  | 74 |
| 11025279651 | parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. It exploits peculiarities of an author's expression (propensity to use too many parentheses, certain favorite words, etc.) Well-written parody offers enlightenment about the original, but poorly written parody offers only ineffectual imitation. nuances of the newer work. Occasionally, however, parodies take on a life of their own and don't require knowledge of the original. |  | 75 |
| 11025279652 | pastoral | A work of literature dealing with rural life |  | 76 |
| 11025279653 | pathos | Appeal to emotion |  | 77 |
| 11025279654 | pun | A play on words |  | 78 |
| 11025279655 | satire | A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of human behavior by portraying it in an extreme way. It doesn't simply abuse (as in invective) or get personal (as in sarcasm). It targets groups or large concepts rather than individuals. | 79 |
