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| 5842566175 | alliteration | the repetition of the same sounds, usually initial consonants | 0 | |
| 5842578920 | assonance | repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words | 1 | |
| 5842584553 | ballad | a form of narrative poetry that presents a single, dramatic, tragic episode | 2 | |
| 5847176410 | blank verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 3 | |
| 5847181349 | cacophony | harsh, clashing sounds | 4 | |
| 5847185150 | cadence | the rising and falling rhythm of speech | 5 | |
| 5847202853 | caesura | a pause in a line of verse | 6 | |
| 5847206335 | connotation | the implied meaning of a word; the idea behind a word | 7 | |
| 5847208763 | consonance | the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds | 8 | |
| 5847214721 | couplet | two consecutive lines of rhyming poetry | 9 | |
| 5847218321 | dactyl | metrical foot of 3 syllables (one accented followed by two unaccented) | 10 | |
| 5847225800 | dirge | a funeral song of lamentation | 11 | |
| 5847227418 | dramatic monologue | A kind of poem in which a single fictional or historical character who is not the poet speaks to a silent audience and reveals the thoughts/mind of the character | 12 | |
| 5848003828 | elegy | an elaborately formal lyric poem lamenting the death of a friend or public figure | 13 | |
| 5848013776 | end-stopped line | when the end of a line of a verse coincides with the end of a sentence, clause, or independent unit of syntax | 14 | |
| 5848028830 | enjambment | opposite of end-stopped line; when the thought or idea presented in one line of poetry spills over into the next without a punctuated pause | 15 | |
| 5848039565 | epic | a long, grand narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a hero | 16 | |
| 5848047079 | extended metaphor | a metaphor that is sustained for several lines or becomes the controlling image of an entire poem | 17 | |
| 5848054583 | foot | the basic unit of rhythmic measurement in a line of poetry | 18 | |
| 5848063252 | free verse | poetry that resembles natural speech due to the absence of rhyme and meter | 19 | |
| 5848068159 | hexameter | a line containing six feet | 20 | |
| 5848070363 | iamb | a metrical foot of 2 syllables (unaccented followed by accented, as in invade) | 21 | |
| 5848082020 | image | when words or language in a poem refer to something that can be perceived through one or more of the 5 senses | 22 | |
| 5848089867 | imagery | making pictures with words | 23 | |
| 5848091878 | in medias res | "the middle of things;" beginning a narrative in the middle of the action in order to involve the reader | 24 | |
| 5848104398 | lyric | a usually short, personal poem that expresses the poet's emotions or thoughts rather than telling a story | 25 | |
| 5848282807 | meter | the pattern of sound-units in a line of verse | 26 | |
| 5848292510 | octave | a stanza of 8 lines OR the first 8 lines in a sonnet | 27 | |
| 5848300839 | ode | a lengthy, formal, serious, lyric poem addressed to a person or abstract entity | 28 | |
| 5848313000 | pastoral | a poem dealing with shepherds and rural life | 29 | |
| 5848314895 | pentameter | a line containing 5 feet | 30 | |
| 5848323515 | persona | the assumed identity of fictional "I" assumed by a writer in a lyrical work | 31 | |
| 5848328837 | prosody | the study of sound and rhythm in poetry | 32 | |
| 5848331418 | quatrain | a four line stanza | 33 | |
| 5848333994 | refrain | a line, group of lines, or part of a line repeated either regularly or irregularly in a poem | 34 | |
| 5848342503 | end rhyme | when rhyme occurs at the end of lines of poetry | 35 | |
| 5848346496 | internal rhyme | rhyme occurs within a line of poetry | 36 | |
| 5848350596 | feminine rhyme | two syllable rhyme (ex. fantastic and sarcastic) | 37 | |
| 5848363565 | forced rhyme | meaning in the poem suffers because of the stilted nature of the rhyme | 38 | |
| 5848375567 | masculine rhyme | one syllable rhyme (ex. fine and vine) | 39 | |
| 5848377767 | exact rhyme | identical rhyme between two words (ex. nearly and yearly) | 40 | |
| 5848383524 | slant rhyme | inexact rhyme between two words (ex. nearly and Siri) | 41 | |
| 5848393438 | eye rhyme | rhyme based on spelling rather than sound (ex. tough and though) | 42 | |
| 5848404442 | rhythm | patterned flow of sound in poetry and prose created through sound devices | 43 | |
| 5848409728 | scansion | analyzing the meter in lines of poetry by counting and marking the syllables | 44 | |
| 5848415912 | sestet | a six line poem or stanza | 45 | |
| 5848425190 | sonnet | a 14 line lyric poem written in iambic pentameter | 46 | |
| 5848430083 | stanza | a section of a poem | 47 | |
| 5848431717 | stress | the emphasis placed on a word or syllable (synonym for accented) | 48 | |
| 5848441532 | trochee | a metrical foot consisting of 2 syllables, an accented syllable followed by an unaccented one (ex. fortune) | 49 | |
| 5848448677 | villanelle | a lyric poem made up of 5 three line stanzas plus a final stanza of 4 lines | 50 | |
| 5848456062 | volta | the Italian term for the turn in argument or mood of a sonnet occurring after the octave in the first line of the sestet | 51 |
