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| 9822564624 | alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 0 | |
| 9822564625 | assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 1 | |
| 9822564626 | cacophony | harsh sounds | 2 | |
| 9822564627 | caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 3 | |
| 9822564628 | conceit | a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | 4 | |
| 9822564629 | connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 5 | |
| 9822564630 | consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 6 | |
| 9822564631 | controlling image | an image or metaphor that runs throughout and determines the form or nature of a literary work | 7 | |
| 9822564632 | couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 8 | |
| 9822564633 | dirge | a funeral hymn or mournful speech | 9 | |
| 9822564634 | dissonance | a harsh and disagreeable combination, often of sounds | 10 | |
| 9822564635 | dramatic monologue | a type of poem that presents a conversation between a speaker and an implied listener | 11 | |
| 9822564636 | elegy | poem or song expressing lamentation; a sad or mournful poem | 12 | |
| 9822564637 | end-stopped line | line of poetry that has a full pause at the end, typically indicated by a period or semicolon | 13 | |
| 9822564638 | enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 14 | |
| 9822564639 | epic | a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | 15 | |
| 9822564640 | euphony | pleasant, harmonious sound | 16 | |
| 9822564641 | metric foot | a unit of poetry consisting of at least one stressed and one unstressed syllable | 17 | |
| 9822564642 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 18 | |
| 9822564643 | iamb | a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables: u/ | 19 | |
| 9822564644 | image | A word or phrase representing that which can be seen, touched, tasted, smelled, or felt. | 20 | |
| 9822564645 | in medias res | into the middle of a narrative; without preamble | 21 | |
| 9822564646 | lyric | A type of short poetry that explores the speaker's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world. Usually about love, but lyric poems have been written on subjects as different as reading and religion. Sonnets and odes are lyric poems. | 22 | |
| 9822564647 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 23 | |
| 9822564648 | octave | 8 line stanza | 24 | |
| 9822564649 | ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 25 | |
| 9822564650 | pentameter | a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet | 26 | |
| 9822564651 | persona | a character in a novel or play; the outward character or role that a person assumes | 27 | |
| 9822564652 | quatrain | 4 line stanza | 28 | |
| 9822564653 | refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. | 29 | |
| 9822564654 | end rhyme | A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line | 30 | |
| 9822564655 | external rhyme | A pattern of words that rhyme on the "outside," on the edge of the poem - the last syllable in the last word of each line in a stanza. | 31 | |
| 9822564656 | feminine rhyme | occurs when the rhyme ends on an unstressed syllable (i.e. "calling" and "falling") | 32 | |
| 9822564657 | internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | 33 | |
| 9822564658 | masculine rhyme | final syllable of first word rhymes with final syllable of second word (scald recalled) | 34 | |
| 9822564659 | scansion | The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain | 35 | |
| 9822564660 | sestet | 6 line stanza | 36 | |
| 9822564661 | English sonnet | 3 Quatrains and an ending couplet. Rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, gg. | 37 | |
| 9822564662 | Italian sonnet | A form of sonnet divided into eight line and six line parts (an octave rhyming abba abba and a sestet rhyming in any of various patterns). Also called a Petrarchan sonnet. | 38 | |
| 9822564663 | stanza | a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse. | 39 | |
| 9822564664 | stress | the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | 40 | |
| 9822564665 | volta | The shift or point of dramatic change in a poem | 41 | |
| 9822564666 | allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or historical event | 42 | |
| 9822564667 | antithesis | A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas, as in "Man proposes; God disposes." Antithesis is a balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness. | 43 | |
| 9822564668 | apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | 44 | |
| 9822564669 | ballad meter | a four-line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines one and three feet in lines two and four. O mother, mother make my bed. O make it soft and narrow. Since my love died for me today, I'll die for him tomorrow. | 45 | |
| 9822564670 | blank verse | unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter). Blank verse is the meter of most of Shakespeare's plays, as well as that of Milton's Paradise Lost. | 46 | |
| 9822564671 | devices of sound | The techniques of deploying the sound of words. Examples include rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia. The devices are used to create a general effect of pleasant or of discordant sound, to imitate another sound, or to reflect a meaning. | 47 | |
| 9822564672 | diction | The use of words in a literary work. Diction may be described as formal, informal, colloquial, or slang. | 48 | |
| 9822564673 | didactic poem | A poem which is intended primarily to teach a lesson. | 49 | |
| 9822564674 | extended metaphor | An implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem. | 50 | |
| 9822564675 | metonymy | replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. Ex: speaking of the king as "the crown." | 51 | |
| 9822564676 | mixed metaphor | a combination of two or more incompatible metaphors, which produces a ridiculous effect | 52 | |
| 9822564677 | narrative poem | a non-dramatic poem which tells a story or presents a narrative, whether simple or complex, long or short. Epics and ballads are examples of narrative poems. | 53 | |
| 9822564678 | onomatopeoia | the use of words that imitate the sounds they define (ex: hiss) | 54 | |
| 9822564679 | oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') | 55 | |
| 9822564680 | paradox | a statement, situation, action or feeling that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true | 56 | |
| 9822564681 | parallelism | Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other in a line or lines of poetry. | 57 | |
| 9822564682 | poetic foot | the unit of meter in a poem containing stressed or unstressed syllables. Ex: iambic, trochaic, anapestic, dactylic, pyrrhic, spondaic | 58 | |
| 9822564683 | anapestic foot | three-syllable foot, stress on third: uu/ | 59 | |
| 9822564684 | dactylic foot | a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables: /uu EX: "No one has more resilience / Or matches my PRAC-ti-cal TAC-ti-cal brilliance" (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton) | 60 | |
| 9822564685 | pyrrhic foot | two unstressed syllables: uu | 61 | |
| 9822564686 | spondaic foot | two stressed syllables: // | 62 | |
| 9822564687 | pun | a play on words, often achieved through the use of words with similar sounds but different meanings | 63 | |
| 9822564688 | sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 64 | |
| 9822564689 | satire | the use of humor to emphasize human vice, weaknesses or imperfections in social institutions | 65 | |
| 9822564690 | rhetorical strategy | the management of language for a specific effect. The rhetorical strategy of most love poems is deployed to convince the loved one to return to the speaker's love. By appealing to the loved one's sympathy, or by flattery, or by threat, the lover attempts to persuade the loved one to love in return. | 66 | |
| 9822564691 | synechdoche | Uses a part to explain a whole or a whole to explain a part. ex. Lend me an ear. | 67 | |
| 9822564692 | syntax | Arrangement of words in phrases and sentences | 68 | |
| 9822564693 | tercet | 3 line stanza | 69 | |
| 9822564694 | terza rima | a three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc. Dante's Divine Comedy is written in terza rima. | 70 | |
| 9822564695 | theme | A message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader. | 71 | |
| 9822564696 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 72 | |
| 9822564697 | understatement | a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said | 73 | |
| 9822564698 | villanelle | a nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain. Uses only two rhymes: aba, aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa. Line one is repeated entirely to form lines 9, 15, and 19; thus, eight of the nineteen lines are refrain. | 74 | |
| 9822564699 | trochee | A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable. Ex:"Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright" |  | 75 |
| 9822564700 | eye rhyme | Rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from the pronunciation. Ex: bear/fear, dough/cough/through/bough | 76 |
