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| 7870476511 | Alliteration | repetition of a consonant sound or letter at the beginning of neighboring words. |  | 0 |
| 7870476512 | Assonance | repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds within a line. |  | 1 |
| 7870476513 | Connotation | ideas and feelings associated with a word, as opposed to its dictionary defintiion | 2 | |
| 7870476514 | Consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds within a line. |  | 3 |
| 7870476515 | Couplet | A pair of rhymed lines in a poem. |  | 4 |
| 7870476516 | Denotation | a word's dictionary definition. |  | 5 |
| 7870636068 | Haiku | Japanese verse in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables. |  | 6 |
| 7870476519 | Form | the arrangement of words and lines on a page (in poetry) |  | 7 |
| 7870476520 | Imagery | descriptive words making one imagine how something looks, feels, smells, touches, and tastes. |  | 8 |
| 7870476521 | metaphor | Comparison of two unlike things without using simile words (like or as) |  | 9 |
| 7870476522 | Mood | the atmosphere or feelings the author creates for the reader |  | 10 |
| 7870476525 | Rhyme | a repetition of sounds at the ends of words or like sounds at regular intervals |  | 11 |
| 7870476528 | Rhyme Scheme | the patterns of rhymes in a poem |  | 12 |
| 7870476529 | Rhythm | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line. |  | 13 |
| 7870476530 | Simile | Comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" |  | 14 |
| 7870805456 | conceit (extended metaphor) | an extended metaphor comparing two unlike objects extending several lines of poetry. |  | 15 |
| 7870849770 | hyperbole | a gross exaggeration for effect; overstatement. |  | 16 |
| 7870888338 | Litotes | a form of understatement in which the negative of an antonym is used to achieve emphasis (and a slightly positive twist) |  | 17 |
| 7870476532 | Speaker | the voice that talks to the reader in a poem (does not have to be the poet/author) |  | 18 |
| 7870476533 | Stanza | a group of lines within a poem (similar to a paragraph in a novel) |  | 19 |
| 7870476534 | Symbolism | a person, place, object, or action that stands for something BEYOND itself. |  | 20 |
| 7870476535 | Tone | the writer's attitude towards his/her subject |  | 21 |
| 7870476537 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. |  | 22 |
| 7870476538 | Idiom | a group of words established by usage as an expression not to be taken literally. |  | 23 |
| 7870476539 | line | the way in which a poem is written. These can vary in length. |  | 24 |
| 7870476540 | Ballad | a type of narrative poem that tells a story. It is meant to be sung or recited. It contains a setting, plot, conflict, and characters. |  | 25 |
| 7870476541 | Epic | a long narrative poem about the adventures of a hero whose actions reflect the ideals and values of a nation or group. |  | 26 |
| 7870476542 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. |  | 27 |
| 7870667329 | meter | the poetry's rhythm, or pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. It's measured in units of feet. |  | 28 |
| 7870677750 | iambic | a type of metric foot with one unstressed and then stressed. example bal-LOON |  | 29 |
| 7870689291 | trochaic | a type of metric foot starting with stressed, then unstressed. |  | 30 |
| 7870727139 | monometer | one poetic foot (number of syllables 2/3) | 31 | |
| 7870736226 | dimeter | two poetic feet in a line. |  | 32 |
| 7870759889 | trimeter | three poetic feet in a line. | 33 | |
| 7870770584 | tetrameter | four poetic feet in a line. |  | 34 |
| 7870773336 | pentameter | five poetic feet in a line. |  | 35 |
| 7870476543 | Sonnet | a poem that has a formal structure, containing 14 lines and a specific rhyme scheme and meter depending on type. |  | 36 |
| 7870476544 | Lyric | a type of reflective, subjective with regular rhyme scheme and meter poetry that presents the thoughts and feelings of a speaker. They can cover a variety of subjects: love, death, everyday experiences |  | 37 |
| 7870565092 | Narrative | nondramatic, objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter which relates to a story or narrative. | 38 | |
| 7870859964 | personification | figurative language in which objects have human qualities. |  | 39 |
| 7870907267 | Allusion | a reference to an outside fact, event, or other source (Biblical, mythological, historical, literary, etc.) |  | 40 |
| 11377907413 | elegy | a poem of lament, meditating on the death of an individual | 41 | |
| 11377919576 | Shakespearean sonnet | poem contains 3 quatrains and a concluding couplet with iambic pentameter. | 42 | |
| 11377932860 | end rhyme | rhyme occurring at the ends of verse lines; most common. | 43 | |
| 11377938209 | internal rhyme | rhyme contained within a line of verse. | 44 | |
| 11377968117 | refrain | phrase, line, or group of lines repeated at intervals throughout a poem | 45 | |
| 11377972798 | quatrain | a four-line stanza | 46 | |
| 11377974750 | caesura | a pause in the meter or rhythm of a line | 47 | |
| 11377978055 | enjambment | a run-on line, continuing into the next without a grammatical/pause break | 48 |
