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| 12305417825 | Metaphor | a comparison between two things that does NOT use any helping words. | 0 | |
| 12305417826 | Simile | a comparison made between two things that uses the helping words "like," "as," "than," or "resembles." | 1 | |
| 12305417827 | Conceit | an extended metaphor with complex logic, or a startling comparison, that governs a poetic passage or an entire poem. | 2 | |
| 12305417828 | Personification | a special kind of metaphor that gives human attributes to a nonhuman object, such as an animal, object, or concept. | 3 | |
| 12305417829 | Apostrophe | when a poem's speaker addresses someone absent, someone dead, or something nonhuman as if it were present and could respond. | 4 | |
| 12305417830 | Synechdoche | The use of the part for the whole | 5 | |
| 12305417831 | Metonymy | The use of something closely related for the thing actually meant | 6 | |
| 12305417832 | Paradox | an apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true. | 7 | |
| 12305417833 | Hyperbole | an overstatement or extravagant exaggeration, so far exaggerated that it cannot be taken literally. | 8 | |
| 12305417834 | Understatement | a poem says less than it means. It can sometimes coexist with verbal irony. | 9 | |
| 12305417835 | Situational Irony | a discrepancy between actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate or expected. | 10 | |
| 12305417836 | Verbal Irony | to say the opposite of what you mean. It is unlike sarcasm, which aims to hurt, or satire, which aims to change, its goal is to be figurative—to say more than it seems. | 11 | |
| 12305417837 | Dramatic Irony | when the audience or reader knows something that a character does not. | 12 | |
| 12305417838 | Imagery | the representation through language of sense experience. It occurs when the words of a poem relate to one of the five senses or a sense of feeling. | 13 | |
| 12305417839 | Tone | the emotional meaning behind lines of poetry. | 14 | |
| 12305417840 | Pun | a play on words, where an author employs a word that has a second meaning or that sounds to a similar word, and both meanings can be applied. | 15 | |
| 12305417841 | Connotation | all associated or implied meanings of a word. | 16 | |
| 12305417842 | Denotation | the dictionary definition of a word. | 17 | |
| 12305417843 | Inversion | a technique in which the normal order of words is reversed. This is often done to maintain a particular rhyme scheme or meter, and sometimes for artistic effect. | 18 | |
| 12305417844 | Aubade | A poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn | 19 | |
| 12305417845 | Ballad | A long, narrative poem, usually in very regular meter and rhyme | 20 | |
| 12305417846 | Lyric | A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world | 21 | |
| 12305417847 | Pastoral | A poem set in tranquil nature, or one about shepherds | 22 | |
| 12305417848 | Rhapsody | An intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise | 23 | |
| 12305417849 | Elegy | a poem that laments the death of a person, or one that is simply sad or thoughtful. | 24 | |
| 12305417850 | Dirge | A slow, heavy, melancholy song for the dead | 25 | |
| 12305417851 | Epitaph | Lines that commemorate the dead | 26 | |
| 12305417852 | Lament | A poem of sadness or grief over an intense loss | 27 | |
| 12305417853 | Plaint | A poem or speech expressing sorrow | 28 | |
| 12305417854 | Requiem | A song or prayer for the dead | 29 | |
| 12305417855 | Alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds. | 30 | |
| 12305417856 | Consonance | the repetition of final consonant sounds. | 31 | |
| 12305417857 | Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds. | 32 | |
| 12305417858 | Anaphora | a type of refrain device, where the first word or phrase is repeated in a series of lines. | 33 | |
| 12305417859 | Onomatopoeia | the use of words which sound like they mean. | 34 | |
| 12305417860 | Euphony | the blending of harmonious sounds. | 35 | |
| 12305417861 | Cacophony | a discordance of rough or harsh sounds. | 36 | |
| 12305417862 | Synesthesia | the stimulation of two or more senses simultaneously. | 37 | |
| 12305417863 | Enjambment | when a line does not stop at the end of the line, but continues onto the next line without pause or punctuation. | 38 | |
| 12305417864 | Caesura | a pause within a line of verse. | 39 | |
| 12305417865 | Fixed Form | A traditional pattern that applies to a whole poem. | 40 | |
| 12305417866 | Stanzaic Form | The poet writes in a series of stanzas, usually in the same metrical pattern and often in an identical rhyme scheme. | 41 | |
| 12305417867 | Continuous Form | Could contain rhyme, but not in an organized form. | 42 | |
| 12305417868 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 43 | |
| 12305417869 | Tercet | A three line stanza | 44 | |
| 12305417870 | Quatrain | A four line stanza | 45 | |
| 12305417871 | Cinquian | a five line stanza | 46 | |
| 12305417872 | Sestet | A six line stanza | 47 | |
| 12305417873 | Septet | a seven line stanza | 48 | |
| 12305417874 | Octave | an 8 line stanza | 49 | |
| 12305417875 | Shakespearean/English Sonnet | ABABCDCDEFEFGG | 50 | |
| 12305417876 | Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet | ABBAABBA CDCDCD | 51 | |
| 12305417877 | Spenserian Sonnet | ABAB BCBC CDCD EE | 52 | |
| 12305417878 | Terza Rima Sonnet | ABA BCB CDC DED EE | 53 | |
| 12305417879 | Rhythm | The natural rise and fall of language. | 54 | |
| 12305417880 | Stressed/Accented | A syllable that is given more prominence in pronunciation | 55 | |
| 12305417881 | Meter | The regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse; the measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry. | 56 | |
| 12305417882 | Foot | One basic unit of meter; one syllable | 57 | |
| 12305417883 | Stanza | A group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout the poem. | 58 | |
| 12305417884 | Scansion | The process of defining the metrical form of a poem | 59 | |
| 12305417885 | Free Verse | Verse written with no organized meter and rhyme scheme | 60 | |
| 12305417886 | Blank Verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 61 | |
| 12305417887 | Iamb | unstressed, stressed | 62 | |
| 12305417888 | Trochee | stressed, unstressed | 63 | |
| 12305417889 | Anapest | unstressed, unstressed, stressed | 64 | |
| 12305417890 | Dactyl | stressed, unstressed, unstressed | 65 | |
| 12305417891 | Spondee | stressed, stressed | 66 | |
| 12305417892 | Monometer | one foot | 67 | |
| 12305417893 | Dimeter | two feet | 68 | |
| 12305417894 | Trimeter | three feet | 69 | |
| 12305417895 | Tetrameter | four feet | 70 | |
| 12305417896 | Pentameter | five feet | 71 | |
| 12305417897 | Hexameter | six feet | 72 |
