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| 7011393226 | Acrostic | a type of poetry where the first, last or other letters in a line spell out a particular word or phrase. The most common and simple form of an acrostic poem is where the first letters of each line spell out the word or phrase. | 0 | |
| 7011393227 | Anagram | A word or phrase made from the letters of another word or phrase | 1 | |
| 7011393228 | Aubade | A poem or song about lovers who must leave one another in the early hours of the morning | 2 | |
| 7011393229 | Ballad | Traditional, a song, transmitted orally from generation to generation, that tells a story and that eventually is written down. Usually cannot be traced to a particular author or group of authors. Often dramatic, condensed, and impersonal narratives. | 3 | |
| 7011393230 | Ballad Stanza | A four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, consisting of alternating eight and six syllable lines. Usually the second and fourth lines rhyme (abcb) | 4 | |
| 7011393231 | Concrete Poetry | poetry in which the meaning or effect is conveyed partly or wholly by visual means, using patterns of words or letters and other typographical devices | 5 | |
| 7011393232 | Dramatic Poetry | written in verse that is meant to be recited. It usually tells a story or refers to a situation. This would include closet drama, dramatic monologues, and rhyme verse | 6 | |
| 7011393233 | Elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead | 7 | |
| 7011393234 | Epic Poem | a long, narrative poem that is usually about heroic deeds and events that are significant to the culture of the poet. Many ancient writers used epic poetry to tell tales of intense adventures and heroic feats | 8 | |
| 7011393235 | Figurative Language | using figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive and impactful. Figures of speech such as metaphors, similes, allusions go beyond the literal meanings of the words to give the readers new insights | 9 | |
| 7011393236 | Fixed Form Poetry | a kind of template or formula that poetry can be composed in | 10 | |
| 7011393237 | Found Poetry | a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry (a literary equivalent of a collage) by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning | 11 | |
| 7011393238 | Italian Sonnet | a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abba abba and a sestet rhyming in any of various patterns (such as cde cde or cdc dcd) —called also Petrarchan sonnet. | 12 | |
| 7011393239 | Limerick | a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba | 13 | |
| 7011393240 | Narrative Poem | a form of poetry that tells a story, often making the voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metered verse | 14 | |
| 7011393241 | Octet / Octave | a poem or stanza of eight lines | 15 | |
| 7011393242 | Open Form Poetry | A form of poetry that does not adhere to any particular structure (as opposed to closed form poetry) | 16 | |
| 7011393243 | Poetic Form | The structure of a poem, including rhyme, meter, line length, and stanza length | 17 | |
| 7011393244 | Quatrain | a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes | 18 | |
| 7011393245 | Sestet | the last six lines of a sonnet | 19 | |
| 7011393246 | Sestina | a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having 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. | 20 | |
| 7011393247 | Subject Matter | the topic dealt with or the subject represented in a debate, exposition, or work of art | 21 | |
| 7011393248 | Tercet | a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet | 22 | |
| 7011393249 | Terza Rima | an arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme aba bcb cdc, etc., as in Dante's Divine Comedy | 23 | |
| 7011393250 | Triplet | Three lines that rhyme | 24 | |
| 7011393251 | Euphemistic | Substituting a mild term for a harsher or distasteful one | 25 | |
| 7011393252 | Grave | A place for the burial of a corpse | 26 | |
| 7011393253 | Rave | Talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | 27 | |
| 7011393254 | Allegory | A narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning because its events, actions, characters, settings, and objects represent specific abstractions or ideas. | 28 | |
| 7011393255 | Allusion | A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature | 29 | |
| 7011393256 | Apostrophe | An address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend | 30 | |
| 7011393257 | Free Verse | A loose poetic form that is unbound by any metrical or structural template | 31 | |
| 7011393258 | Haiku | A Japanese poem consisting of 17 syllables in three lines. (5, 7,5) | 32 | |
| 7011393259 | Hyperbole | Use of specific words and phrases that exaggerate and overemphasize the basic crux of the statement in order to produce a grander, more noticeable effect | 33 | |
| 7011393260 | Juxtaposition | two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect | 34 | |
| 7011393261 | Metaphor | Makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics. In other words, a resemblance of two contradictory or different objects is made based on a single or some common characteristics | 35 | |
| 7011393262 | Ode | A lyric poem of some length, serious in subject and dignified in style. | 36 | |
| 7011393263 | Rhyme | correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. | 37 | |
| 7011393264 | Rhythm | The measured pattern of sound or beat exhibited by a particular section of verse | 38 | |
| 7011393265 | Sarcasm | the literal meaning is different than what the speaker intends to say through sarcasm. Sarcasm is a literary and rhetorical device that is meant to mock with often satirical or ironic remarks with a purpose to amuse and hurt someone or some section of society simultaneously. | 39 | |
| 7011393266 | Simile | A figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things. Unlike a metaphor, a simile draws resemblance with the help of the words "like" or "as". Therefore, it is a direct comparison | 40 | |
| 7011393267 | Sonnet | A 14 line poem following a strict rhyme scheme and meter. The Shakespearean sonnet's rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg and uses iambic pentameter. | 41 | |
| 7011393268 | Style | the manner in which ideas are expressed; the combination of distinctive or unique features characterizing a writer or person | 42 | |
| 7011393269 | Theme | a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly | 43 | |
| 7011393270 | Tone | An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience, generally conveyed through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject | 44 | |
| 7011393271 | Villanelle | a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines | 45 |
