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| 6705004998 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which someone absent, dead, or nonhuman is addressed | 0 | |
| 6705004999 | connotation | the implied meaning of a word | 1 | |
| 6705006901 | denotation | the dictionary definition of a word | 2 | |
| 6705006902 | figurative language | language that is not designed to be taken literally | 3 | |
| 6705011262 | juxtaposition | two things are placed next to each other in order to create meaning through contrast | 4 | |
| 6705018260 | metaphor | a comparison where one thing becomes the other (You ARE the sunshine of my life) | 5 | |
| 6705018261 | onomatopoeia | sound effect words | 6 | |
| 6705020398 | personification | human traits are given to animals or objects | 7 | |
| 6705020399 | rhythm | a wave-like reoccurrence of motion or sound | 8 | |
| 6705022155 | simile | a comparison using like or as | 9 | |
| 6705024804 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole | 10 | |
| 6705024805 | syntax | word order | 11 | |
| 6705070336 | alliteration | repetition of consonant sound at the beginning of words in a line of poetry | 12 | |
| 6705073009 | approximate rhyme | words placed in a metrical pattern where a rhyme should exist, but they don't rhyme exactly | 13 | |
| 6705073010 | assonance | repetition of vowels sounds in a line of poetry | 14 | |
| 6705075426 | blank verse | unrhymed poetry (has meter/doesn't have rhyme) | 15 | |
| 6705075427 | consonance | repetition of consonant sound at the end of the word | 16 | |
| 6705075428 | couplet | two successive lines of poetry that end in rhyme | 17 | |
| 6705078219 | end rhyme | the last syllables in two (or more) lines of poetry rhyme | 18 | |
| 6705078220 | end-stopped line | a line of poetry ends with a natural stop or end punctuation | 19 | |
| 6705080877 | enjambment | two lines of poetry run together with no natural stop or punctuation | 20 | |
| 6705082583 | English sonnet form | 3 quatrains and a couplet | 21 | |
| 6705082584 | feminine rhyme | rhyme in which both the last and the second to last (accented) syllable rhyme | 22 | |
| 6705086444 | free verse | non-metrical verse | 23 | |
| 6705086445 | heroic couplet | poems constructed by a sequence of two lines of verse in iambic pentameter | 24 | |
| 6705088692 | iamb | one accented syllable followed by an unaccented syllable | 25 | |
| 6705276637 | iambic meter | a line of poetry composed of iambs | 26 | |
| 6705278752 | internal rhyme | when the rhyme occurs within a line of poetry | 27 | |
| 6705278765 | masculine rhyme | when the last syllables of two lines of poetry rhyme | 28 | |
| 6705284776 | meter | a regularized pattern of accented and unaccented syllables | 29 | |
| 6705284777 | perfect rhyme | rhyme in which the sound is identical | 30 | |
| 6705287051 | pentameter | five poetic feet in a line of poetry | 31 | |
| 6705293795 | quatrain | a four-line stanza | 32 | |
| 6705293796 | refrain | a repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines written in stanzaic form | 33 | |
| 6705295480 | rhyme | words that have the same sound | 34 | |
| 6705296918 | rhyme scheme | regularized pattern of rhymes within a work of literature | 35 | |
| 6705296919 | stanza | a group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout the poem | 36 | |
| 6705298826 | syntax | word order | 37 | |
| 6705298827 | ballad | a narrative folk song | 38 | |
| 6705300657 | elegy | a song of poem that expresses sorrow or lamentation, usually for someone who has died | 39 | |
| 6705300658 | epic | a long poem, in a lofty style, about the exploits of a hero | 40 | |
| 6705302190 | lyric | a song-like poem written mainly to express feelings or thoughts | 41 | |
| 6705302191 | narrative poem | a poem that tells a story | 42 | |
| 6705304392 | ode | a lyric poem of elaborate style and moderate length that praises a person or thing | 43 | |
| 6705305932 | sonnet | a 14-line poem, normally in iambic pentameter | 44 | |
| 6758052023 | ekphrasis | a poetic representation of a painting or a sculpture in words | 45 | |
| 6758054071 | epigram | a short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation | 46 | |
| 6758057379 | figure of speech | a way of saying one thing and meaning another | 47 | |
| 6758061008 | sentimentality | unmerited or contrived tender feelings - seeks to solicit emotion by over-simplifying or falsifying reality | 48 | |
| 6758068764 | foot | a basic unit used in the measurement of verse | 49 | |
| 6758080682 | half rhyme (slant, near, oblique, imperfect, off) | seems like rhyme but is really consonance of the final consonants of the words involved | 50 | |
| 6758085956 | Italian sonnet (Petrarchan) | an octave and a sestet | 51 | |
| 6758117771 | octave | eight-line stanza | 52 | |
| 6758132175 | scansion | the process of measuring verse | 53 | |
| 6758135734 | sestet | six-line stanza | 54 |
