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| 7830230481 | Abecedarian | "poems most commonly used as mnemonic devices and word games for children, such as those written by Dr. Seuss and Edward Gorey.." |  | 0 |
| 7830230482 | Anaphora | A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences. "As one of the world's oldest poetic techniques, it is used in much of the world's religious and devotional poetry, including numerous Biblical Psalms." | 1 | |
| 7830230483 | Ballad | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture. "Their subject matter dealt with religious themes, love, tragedy, domestic crimes, propaganda.? |  | 2 |
| 7830230487 | Cento | "From the Latin word for 'patchwork,' it is a poetic form made up of lines from poems by other poets." |  | 3 |
| 7830230489 | Cinquain | A five line stanza "Examples can be found in many European languages and the origins of the form dates back to medieval French poetry." |  | 4 |
| 7830230490 | Dramatic Monologue | a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events. "The poet speaks through an assumed voice - a character, a fictional identity, or a persona." |  | 5 |
| 7830230491 | Ekphrasis | Description is "a composition bringing the subject clearly before the eyes." Like the encomium, the subjects may be persons, actions, times, places, animals, and growing things. "These modern poems have generally shrugged of antiquity's obsession with elaborate descriptions, and instead have tried to interpret, in, inhabit, confront, and speak to their subjects." |  | 6 |
| 7830230492 | Elegy | A poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died. "The traditional poem mirrors three states of loss. First, there is a lament, then praise for the idealized dead, and finally consolation and solace." |  | 7 |
| 7830230493 | Epic | A long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society. "Elements that typically distinguish this type of poem include superhuman deeds, fabulous adventures, highly stylized language, and a blending of lyrical and dramatic traditions." |  | 8 |
| 7830230494 | Epigram | A brief witty poem, often satirical. |  | 9 |
| 7830230495 | Epistle | A letter or literary composition in letter form. "poems - means 'letter' - are, quite literally, poems that read as letters." |  | 10 |
| 7830230496 | Found Poem | created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning. "The literary equivalent of a collage, is often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, or even other poems." |  | 11 |
| 7830230497 | Ghazal | (n) (in Middle Eastern and Indian literature and music) a lyric poem with a fixed number of verses and a repeated rhyme, typically on the theme of love, and normally set to music. "Traditionally invoking melancholy, love, longing, and metaphysical questions, these poems are often sung by Iranian, Indian, and Pakistani musicians." | 12 | |
| 7830230498 | Haibun | Japanese form, pioneered by the poet Basho, and comprising a section of prose followed by haiku. They are frequently travelogues - as in Basho's The Records of a Travel-Worn Satchel (1688). In the best examples, the prose and haiku should work together to create an organic whole. "A journey composed of a prose poem and ending with a meaningful murmur of sorts: a haiku." |  | 13 |
| 7830230499 | Haiku | 3 unrhymed lines (5, 7, 5) usually focusing on nature. "Often focusing on images from nature, emphasized simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression." |  | 14 |
| 7830230500 | Limerick | a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet. "A popular from in children's verse, this type of poem is often comical, nonsensical, and sometimes even lewd." |  | 15 |
| 7830230501 | 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 "Originally accompanied by music and dance, and later reserved by the Romantic poets to convey their strongest sentiments." |  | 16 |
| 7830230504 | Prose Poem | a passage that makes such extensive use of poetic language that the line between spoken language and poetry becomes blurred. "Just as black humor straddles the fine line between comedy and tragedy, so this type of poem plants one foot in spoken language, the other in poetry, both heals resting precariously on banana peels." |  | 17 |
| 7830230505 | Pastoral | Of relating to or being a literary or other artistic work that portrays or evokes rural life usually in an idealized way. "This tradition refers to a lineage of creative works that idealize rural life and landscapes." |  | 18 |
| 7830230507 | Rondeau | A form of medieval French poetry set to music, usually with a refrain and a verse. "This type of poetry began as lyric form in thirteenth-century France, popular among medieval court poets and musicians." | 19 | |
| 7830230509 | Sestina | A poem composed of six six-line stanzas and a three-line conclusion called an envoi. Each line ends with one of six key words. The alternation of these six words in different positions - but always at the ends of lines - the poems six stanzas creates a rhythmic verbal pattern that unifies the poem. "The thirty-nine-line form is attributed to Arnaut Daniel, the Provencal troubadour of the twelfth century." | 20 | |
| 7830230510 | Sonnet | A lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to certain definite patterns. It usually expresses a single, complete idea or thought with a reversal, twist, or change of direction in the concluding lines. "Means a 'little sound or song,' the sonnet is a popular classical form that has compelled poets for centuries." |  | 21 |
| 7830230511 | Tanka | A Japanese poem of five lines, the first and third composed of five syllables and the rest of seven. "One of the oldest Japanese forms, tanka originated in the seventh century, and quickly became the preferred verse form in the Japanese Imperial Court." | 22 | |
| 7830230512 | Terza Rima | An arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme aba bcb cdc, etc., as in Dante's Divine Comedy. "Invented by the Italian poet Dante Allighiere in the late thirteenth century to structure his three-part epic poem, "The Divine Comedy"." | 23 | |
| 7830230513 | Triolet | A short poem of fixed form, having a rhyme scheme of ab, aa, abab, and having the first line repeated as the fourth and seventh lines, and the second line repeated as the eighth. The earliest poems were devotionals written by Patrick Carey, a seventeenth-century Benedictine monk." | 24 | |
| 7830230514 | Villanelle | A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern. "Strange as it may seem for a poem with such a rigid rhyme scheme, this type of poem did not start off as a fixed form. | 25 | |
| 7830230515 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 26 | |
| 7830230516 | Connotation | An implied meaning of a word. Opposite of denotation. The implied of suggested meaning connected with a word. | 27 | |
| 7830230517 | Literal Meaning | Limited to the simplest, ordinary, most obvious meaning | 28 | |
| 7830230518 | Figurative Meaning | Associative or connotative meaning; representational. When writing is meant to be understood at a deeper level. Figures of speech such as simile, metaphor, personification, and other techniques are used to create more vivid, interesting images. | 29 | |
| 7830230519 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. Measured pattern of rhythmic accents in a line of verse. | 30 | |
| 7830230520 | Rhyme | Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. | 31 | |
| 7830230521 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. A direct address of an inanimate object, abstract qualities, or a person not living or present. Example: "Beware, of Asparagus, you've stalked my last meal." | 32 | |
| 7830230522 | Hyberbole | Deliberate exaggeration for effect (the opposite of understatement). Example: "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse." | 33 | |
| 7830230523 | Metaphor | A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared. A comparison between essentially unlike things without using words or application of a name or description to something to which it is not literary applicable. Example: "[Love] is an ever fixed mark, /that looks on tempests and is never shaken." | 34 | |
| 7830230524 | Metonymy | A closely related term substituted for an object or idea. Example: "We have always remained loyal to the crown." | 35 | |
| 7830230525 | Oxymoron | A combination of two words that appear to contradict each other. Example: "Bittersweet" | 36 | |
| 7830230526 | Paradox | A situation or phrase that appears to be contradictory but which contains a truth worth considering. Example: "In order to preserve peace, we must prepare for war." | 37 | |
| 7830230527 | Personification | The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities. Example: "Time let me play / and be golden in the mercy of his means." | 38 | |
| 7830230528 | Pun | Play on words or a humorous use of a single word or sound with two or more implied meanings; quibble. Example: "They're call lessons...because they lessen from day to day." | 39 | |
| 7830230529 | Simile | Comparison between two essentially unlike things using words such as "like," "as," or "as though." Example: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" | 40 | |
| 7830230530 | Synecdoche | A part substituted for the whole. Example: "Friends, Romans, countrymen: lend me your ears" | 41 | |
| 7830230531 | Irony | A contradiction of expectation between what is said and what is meant (verbal) or what is expected in a particular circumstance or behavior (situational), or when a character speaks in ignorance of a situation known to the audience or other characters (situational) Example: "Time held me green and dying / Though I sang in my chains like the sea" | 42 | |
| 7830230532 | Imagery | Word or sequence of words representing a sensory experience (visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, and gustatory) Example: "Bells knelling classes to a close (auditory) | 43 | |
| 7830230533 | Synsthesia | An attempt to fuse different senses by describing one in terms of another. Example: "The sound of her voice was sweet" | 44 | |
| 7830230534 | Symbol | An object or action that stands for something beyond itself Example: White = innocence, purity, hope. | 45 | |
| 7830230535 | Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds, particularly at the beginning of words. Example: "like a wanderer white" or "Peter Piper picked a pail of pickles." | 46 | |
| 7830230536 | Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds. Example: "I rose and told him of my woe" |  | 47 |
| 7830230537 | Elision | The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry. Example: "Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame." | 48 | |
| 7830230538 | Onomatopoeia | The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. Example: "crack" or "whir" |  | 49 |
| 7830230539 | Allusion | A reference to the person, event, or work outside the poem or literary piece. Example: "Shining, it was Adam and maiden" |  | 50 |
| 7830230540 | Open Poetry | Poetic form free from regularity and consistency in elements such as rhyme, line, length, and metrical form. | 51 | |
| 7830230541 | Closed Poetry | Poetry that follows a particular shape, stanza count, meter, or rhyme scheme. Poetic form subject to a fixed structure and pattern. | 52 | |
| 7830230542 | Stanza | Unit of a poem often repeated in the same form throughout a poem; a unit of poetic lines ("verse paragraph") |  | 53 |
| 7830230543 | Couplet | A pair of lines, usually rhymed |  | 54 |
| 7830230544 | Heroic Couplet | A pair of rhymed lines in iambic pentameter (tradition of the heroic epic form) |  | 55 |
| 7830230545 | Quatrain | four-line stanza or grouping of four lines of verse. | 56 | |
| 7830230546 | Sonnet | Fourteen line poem in iambic pentameter with a prescribed rhyme scheme; its subject is traditionally that of love. | 57 | |
| 7830230547 | English (Shakespearean) Sonnet | A sonnet probably made popular by William Shakespeare with the following rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg | 58 | |
| 7830230548 | Sestet | 6 line stanza | 59 | |
| 7830230549 | Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet | A form of sonnet made popular by Petrarch with the following rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdecde or cdcdcd Its first octave generally presents a thought, picture, or emotion, while its final sestet presents and explanation, comment or summary. | 60 | |
| 7830230550 | Stress | Greater amount of force used to pronounce one syllable over another. | 61 | |
| 7830230551 | Pause | (Caesura) A pause for a beat in the rhythm of the verse (often indicated by a line break or a mark of punctuation) | 62 | |
| 7830230552 | Rising Meter | Meter containing metrical feet that move from unstressed to stressed syllables. | 63 | |
| 7830230553 | Iambic (Iamb) | A metrical foot containing two syllable-- the first is unstressed, while the second is stressed. | 64 | |
| 7830230554 | Anapestic (anapest) | A metrical foot containing three syllables--the first two are unstressed, while the last is stressed | 65 | |
| 7830230555 | Falling Meter | Meter containing metrical feet that move from stressed to unstressed syllables. | 66 | |
| 7830230556 | Trochaic (Trochee) | A metrical foot containing two syllables--the first is stressed, while the second is unstressed. | 67 | |
| 7830230557 | Dactylic (dactyl) | A metrical foot containing three syllables--the first is stressed while the last two are unstressed | 68 | |
| 7830230558 | Spondee | An untraditional metrical foot in which two consecutive syllables are stressed. | 69 | |
| 7830239191 | Masculine Rhyme | a rhyme of final stressed syllables of words | 70 | |
| 7830256121 | Feminine Rhyme | a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables (stocking / shocking) | 71 | |
| 7830270796 | Internal Rhyme | a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. "Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary" | 72 | |
| 7830294109 | End Rhyme | Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry | 73 | |
| 7830296136 | Slant Rhyme | rhyming in which the words sound the same but do not rhyme perfectly | 74 | |
| 7830312471 | Enjambment | (in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 75 | |
| 7830371287 | Epistrophe | Ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words. The opposite of anaphora. | 76 | |
| 7830399939 | Polysendeton | Employing many conjunctions between clauses | 77 | |
| 7830403131 | Asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence | 78 | |
| 7830420366 | Chiasmus | a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form | 79 | |
| 7830450931 | Epizeuxis | Repetition of words with no others between | 80 | |
| 7830458439 | Juxtaposition | the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect. | 81 | |
| 7830469971 | Monometer | one metrical foot per line | 82 | |
| 7830486276 | Dimeter | two metrical feet per line | 83 | |
| 7830487964 | Trimeter | three metrical feet per line | 84 | |
| 7830489988 | Tetrameter | four metrical feet per line | 85 | |
| 7830492127 | Pentameter | five metrical feet per line | 86 | |
| 7830494533 | Hexameter | six metrical feet per line | 87 | |
| 7830497077 | Heptameter | seven metrical feet per line | 88 | |
| 7830499628 | Octameter | eight metrical feet per line | 89 | |
| 7830504380 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter | 90 |
