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| 249099659 | Iamb (Iambic) | A metrical foot of poetry in which there is one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable---2 syllables total | 0 | |
| 249099660 | Trochee (Trochaic) | A metrical foot of poetry in which a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable --2 syllables | 1 | |
| 249099661 | Spondee (Spondaic) | a metrical foot of poetry with stressed-stressed syllables--2 syllables | 2 | |
| 249099662 | Anapest (Anapestic) | unstressed-unstressed-stressed--3 syllables | 3 | |
| 249099663 | Dactyl (Dactylic) | stressed, unstressed, unstressed--3 syllables | 4 | |
| 249099664 | Pyrrhic | unstressed, unstressed--2 syllables | 5 | |
| 249099665 | Monometer | one foot | 6 | |
| 249099666 | Dimeter | two feet | 7 | |
| 249099667 | trimeter | three feet | 8 | |
| 249099668 | Tetrameter | four feet | 9 | |
| 249099669 | Pentameter | five feet | 10 | |
| 249099670 | Hexameter | six feet | 11 | |
| 249099671 | Heptameter | seven fet | 12 | |
| 249099672 | Octameter | Eight feet | 13 | |
| 249099673 | allusion | a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize | 14 | |
| 249099674 | attitude | a speaker's author's or chacter's disposition toward or opinion of a subject | 15 | |
| 249099675 | details | items or parts that make up a larger picture or story | 16 | |
| 249099676 | devices of sound | the techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry. | 17 | |
| 249099677 | diction | word choice | 18 | |
| 249099678 | figurative language | writing that uses figures of speech (as opposed to literal language or that which is actual or specifically denoted) such as metaphor, simile, and iony. | 19 | |
| 249099679 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 20 | |
| 249099680 | irony | the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or, incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens | 21 | |
| 249099681 | metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity | 22 | |
| 249099682 | narrative techniques | the methods involved in telling a story; the procedures used by a writer of stories or accounts | 23 | |
| 249099683 | omniscient point of view | the vantage point of a story in which the narrator can know, see, and report whatever he or she chooses. | 24 | |
| 249099684 | point of view | any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told. | 25 | |
| 249099686 | rhetorical techniques | The devices used in effective or persuasive language...the most common examples include devices like contrast, repetitions, paradox, understatement, sarcasm, and rhetorical question | 26 | |
| 249099687 | satire | writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule...the more common examples include devices like contrast, repetitions, paradox, understatement, sarcasm, and rhetorical question. | 27 | |
| 249099688 | setting | the background or physical location of a play, story, or novel | 28 | |
| 249099689 | simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') | 29 | |
| 249099690 | style | the mode of expression in language; the characteristic manner of expression of an author. | 30 | |
| 249099691 | symbol | something that stands for something else | 31 | |
| 249099692 | syntax | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences | 32 | |
| 249099693 | theme | the main thought expressed by a work | 33 | |
| 249099694 | tone | the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude | 34 | |
| 249099695 | allegory | a story in which people, things, and events have another meaning | 35 | |
| 249099696 | ambiguity | multiple meanings a literary work may communicate, especially two meanings that are incompatible | 36 | |
| 249099697 | apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | 37 | |
| 249099698 | connotation | the implied or associative meaning of a word | 38 | |
| 249099699 | convention | a device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of expression | 39 | |
| 249099700 | denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 40 | |
| 249099701 | didactic | instructive, designed to teach | 41 | |
| 249099702 | digression | the use of material unrelated to the subject of a work | 42 | |
| 249099703 | epigram | a witty saying | 43 | |
| 249099704 | euphemism | substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is offensive | 44 | |
| 249099706 | hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration | 45 | |
| 249099707 | jargon | a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | 46 | |
| 249099708 | literal | not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete | 47 | |
| 249099709 | lyrical | songlike; characterized by emotion, subjectivity, and imagination | 48 | |
| 249099710 | oxymoron | a combination of opposites; the union of contradictory terms | 49 | |
| 249099711 | parable | a short moral story (often with animal characters) | 50 | |
| 249099712 | paradox | a statement that seems to be self-contracting, but is in fact true | 51 | |
| 249099713 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 52 | |
| 249099714 | rhetorical question | a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered | 53 | |
| 249099715 | soliloquy | a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections | 54 | |
| 249099716 | stereotype | a generalized belief about a group of people | 55 | |
| 249099717 | alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse | 56 | |
| 249099718 | assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words | 57 | |
| 249099719 | ballad meter | a 4 line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in lines one and three 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 tmorrow | 58 | |
| 249099720 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter Men called him Mulciber; and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve. | 59 | |
| 249099721 | end-stopped | a line with a pause at the end | 60 | |
| 249099722 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 61 | |
| 249099723 | heroic couplet | two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc, with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit | 62 | |
| 249099724 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | 63 | |
| 249099725 | onomatopoeia | using words that imitate the sound they denote | 64 | |
| 249099726 | sonnet | a short poem with fourteen lines, usually ten-syllable rhyming lines, divided into two, three, or four sections | 65 | |
| 249099727 | terza rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. | 66 |
