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| 13491435241 | Italian Sonnet | 14 line metered poem arranged with an octave that has the rhyme scheme of abba abba, and a sestet with the rhyme scheme of cdc cdc. | 0 | |
| 13491435242 | Spenserian Sonnet | 14 line metered poem arranged with 3 quatrains and a couplet and has a rhyme scheme of abab bcbc cdcd ee | 1 | |
| 13491440328 | English/Shakespearean Sonnet | 14 line metered poem arranged with 3 quatrains and couplet and has a rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, gg | 2 | |
| 13491444377 | End/Terminal Rhyme | words that rhyme at the end of a verse line | 3 | |
| 13491449255 | 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. | 4 | |
| 13491449256 | Masculine Rhyme | A one syllable rhyme | 5 | |
| 13491453259 | Feminine Rhyme | A two-syllable rhyme | 6 | |
| 13491456539 | Triple Rhyme | A rhyme of two or three syllables in which the second and third syllables are unstressed | 7 | |
| 13491456540 | Slant (Near/Imperfect/Oblique) Rhyme | rhyme in which there is close but not exact correspondence of sounds | 8 | |
| 13491456541 | Alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of neighboring words | 9 | |
| 13491461516 | Assonance | repetition of internal vowel sounds in neighboring words | 10 | |
| 13491461517 | Consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds among words in close proximity | 11 | |
| 13491465176 | Sibilance | A type of alliteration in which the "s" sound is repeated. | 12 | |
| 13491468148 | Dissonance/Cacophony | Unpleasant or unharmonious sound | 13 | |
| 13491468149 | Euphony | the use of words or phrases that have a noteworthy melody or loveliness in the sounds created (long vowel sounds, soft consonants, or semi-vowels) | 14 | |
| 13491471482 | Onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds suggest their meanings | 15 | |
| 13491471483 | Lyrical Poetry | This type of poetry seems musical and expresses the speaker's emotions | 16 | |
| 13491474109 | Ode | a poem that usually praises someone or something | 17 | |
| 13491474110 | Ballad | a poem that almost seems like a long song that tells a story. Verses tend to be short and are usually about revenge, crime, or love. | 18 | |
| 13491474111 | Sonnet | a poem with the verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | 19 | |
| 13491479482 | Dramatic Monologue | A type of poem where you have an imagined speaker who addresses a silent listener | 20 | |
| 13491479483 | Idyll | poems set in nature or in the countryside and present an idealized description | 21 | |
| 13491483566 | Narrative Poetry | A type of poetry that combines the elements of fiction and poetry to tell a story. Subject-matter often deals with heroic deeds, amazing events, and larger-than-life characters | 22 | |
| 13491483567 | Epic | a long narrative poem about the adventures of a hero whose actions reflect the ideals and values of a nation or group | 23 | |
| 13491487010 | Villanelle | a 19 line French narrative poem with fixed form of 5 tercets (3 line stanzas) and a quatrain, all with two rhymes | 24 | |
| 13491491369 | Idylls and Ballads | a narrative poem that tell a story (can also be considered lyrical) | 25 | |
| 13491556461 | Epigram | a short poem or verse that seems to ridicule a thought or event, usually with witticism or sarcasm | 26 | |
| 13491556462 | Concrete Poetry | shape or visual poetry written to form a particular image or shape that relates to the subject-matter of the poem | 27 | |
| 13491556463 | Elegy | a lyrical poem that expresses sorrow or lamentation, usually for one who has died | 28 | |
| 13491566092 | Epitaph | a short poem or verse written in memory of someone (often put on tombstones) | 29 | |
| 13491566093 | Sestina | a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final tercet. All stanzas have the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi. | 30 | |
| 13491566094 | Free Verse Poetry | poetry without rhyme or meter | 31 | |
| 13491571641 | Allusion | a reference, many times indirect, to anything previously written or produced | 32 | |
| 13491571642 | Anachornism | something or someone that is not in the correct chronological period | 33 | |
| 13491574981 | Analogy | a comparison of two or more like objects that suggests if they are alike in certain respects, they will probably be alike in other ways as well | 34 | |
| 13491574982 | Cliche | an overused expression or saying no longer considered original | 35 | |
| 13491574983 | Epic Simile | an extended simile often running to several lines, used typically in epic poetry to intensify the heroic stature of the subject and to serve as decoration | 36 | |
| 13491581999 | Extended Metaphor (conceit) | a figure of speech that compares two essentially unalike things in great length | 37 | |
| 13491582000 | Tenor | the subject of an extended metaphor | 38 | |
| 13491582001 | Vehicle | the part of an extended metaphor that is reimagined | 39 | |
| 13491586453 | Hyperbole | a figure of speech that includes over-exaggeration for emphasis or humorous effect | 40 | |
| 13491586454 | Idiom | a figure of speech where there is an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up | 41 | |
| 13491592882 | Situational Irony | a figure of speech where incongruity occurs between the expected and reality | 42 | |
| 13491592883 | Dramatic Irony | a figure of speech where more is known by certain characters, the audience, or the reader | 43 | |
| 13491592884 | Verbal Irony | a figure of speech where a speaker means something totally different (or the opposite) from what he/she is saying. Can come in the forms of sarcasm, overstatement, understatement, or exaggeration | 44 | |
| 13491602017 | Metonymy | a figure of speech in which there is a metaphorical substitution of one word or phrase for another related word or phrase | 45 | |
| 13491602018 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines contradictory words or ideas | 46 | |
| 13491604913 | Pathetic Fallacy | a figure of speech that is a special type of personification in which inanimate aspects of nature, such as landscape or weather, are represented as having human qualities or feelings | 47 | |
| 13491604914 | Paradox | a figure of speech where a statement seems to contradict itself but is, nevertheless, true | 48 | |
| 13491608973 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which the whole is represented by naming one of its parts or vice-versa | 49 | |
| 13491608974 | Litotes | a figure of thought in which a point is affirmed by negating its opposite | 50 | |
| 13491612253 | Periphrasis | a figure of thought in which a point is stated by direct circumlocution (the use of many words where fewer would do), rather than directly. Often classified as innuendo or euphemism | 51 | |
| 13491612254 | Pun | a figure of thought that plays on words that have the same sounds or closely similar sounds, but have sharply contrasting meanings | 52 | |
| 13491616661 | Anaphora | The intentional repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines, stanzas, sentences, or paragraphs | 53 | |
| 13491622941 | Comedy | a type of dramatic work that is amusing and/or satirical in its tone, mostly having a cheerful ending. The motif of this dramatic work is triumph over unpleasant circumstance by creating comic effects, resulting in a happy or successful conclusion | 54 | |
| 13491622942 | High Comedy | comedy that depends primarily on verbal wit | 55 | |
| 13491622943 | Low Comedy | comedy that is characterized by physical humor, such as slapstick, but may also include crass verbal humor | 56 | |
| 13491632895 | Tragedy | A form of drama where the tone is serious, and often somber; the effect is to involve and strongly move the audience; and the outcome is disastrous for the protagonist and, often also for those associated with him/her. | 57 | |
| 13491632896 | Hamartia | a fatal/tragic flaw or error in judgment made by a tragic hero | 58 | |
| 13491632897 | Hubris | excessive pride (often the tragic hero's hamartia) | 59 | |
| 13491638089 | Tragicomedy | A form of drama that falls in the middle of the tragic/comic spectrum, in that it focuses on both high and low-born characters and situations and that they bring a potentially tragic plot to a happy resolution, at least for the protagonist, through a sudden reversal of fortune or the reformation of the protagonist's opponent | 60 | |
| 13491638090 | Theater of the Absurd | 20th century drama which questions the meaning of life in a universe seen as godless and which has overthrown such accepted conventions as a well-established setting, logical dialogue, and a fully resolved conflict. | 61 | |
| 13491642180 | Aside | words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, but not "heard" by the other characters on stage | 62 | |
| 13491642181 | Catharsis | the purging of the feelings of pity and fear. According to Aristotle, the audience should experience this at the end of a tragedy | 63 | |
| 13491642182 | Comic Relief | the feeling of relief experienced by the audience when a light-hearted scene is incorporated after a succession of intensely tragic dramatic moments | 64 | |
| 13491650369 | Deus Ex Machina | ("a god from the machine") the sudden and unexpected resolution of the entanglements of a play by supernatural intervention | 65 | |
| 13491655564 | Parallelism | any repeated similarity of grammatical structure | 66 | |
| 13491655565 | Polysyndeton | use of many conjunctions | 67 | |
| 13491661823 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions | 68 | |
| 13491661824 | Ellipsis | omission of words for brevity, emphasis, ambiguity, or grace | 69 | |
| 13491666744 | Parenthesis | any insertion that interrupts normal sentence structure | 70 | |
| 13491666745 | Simple Sentence | A sentence with a single independent clause (but can have none, or one or more phrases within it). Though it can contain a compound subject or compound verb, it cannot have more than one independent clause. Rhetorical effect: gives a childlike quality to prose. They are also useful to highlight certain things as important against a background of other things (when used after a string of longer sentences) | 71 | |
| 13491671777 | Compound Sentence | a sentence with two or more independent clauses (not dependent clauses). Rhetorical Effect: creates balance because they present two ideas of EQUAL in importance | 72 | |
| 13491671778 | Complex Sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. Rhetorical Effect: This structure orders ideas into main and subordinate ideas. The main, or most important idea, is in the independent clause, the subordinate idea is in the dependent (or subordinate) clause | 73 | |
| 13491681102 | Compound/Complex Sentence | A sentence with two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses | 74 | |
| 13491685378 | Periodic (Climatic) Sentence | When the entire main clause is at the end of the sentence; usually after a long series of parallel constructions. Rhetorical Effect: builds to a climax with meaning unfolding slowly | 75 | |
| 13491696190 | Loose (Cummulative) Sentence | When the entire main clause is at the beginning of the sentence, usually before a long series of parallel constructions. Rhetorical Effect: The reader knows the main action of the sentence from the outset. Thus, all the following modifiers serve as elaboration upon it. It also allows the writer to expand upon attributes or ideas that seem to "sprout" from the main clause | 76 |
