POETRY TEST!
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| 135201454 | Alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds | |
| 135201455 | Allusion | a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | |
| 135201456 | Anaphora | The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences | |
| 135201457 | Antimetabole | Repitition of words in succussive clauses in reverse grammatical order ("You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy.") | |
| 135201458 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply | |
| 135201459 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words | |
| 135201460 | Ballad | a type of poem that is meant to be sung and is both lyric and narrative in nature | |
| 135201461 | Blank Verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | |
| 135201462 | Byronic Hero | a self tormented outcast who is cynical and contemptuous of societal norms and is suffering from some unnamed or mysterious sin or dark past. Yet still handsome and attractive. The "bad boy." | |
| 135201463 | Consonance | The repetition of a consonant at the end of two or more words. | |
| 135201464 | Cacaphony | The use of harsh or discordant sounds in literary composition, as for poetic effect | |
| 135201465 | Enjambment | the continuation of meaning, without pause or break, from one line of poetry to the next | |
| 135201466 | End Stop | meaning reaches completion at the end of line with punctuation | |
| 135201467 | Foot | a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm | |
| 135201468 | Frame Tale | A narrative technique in which the main story is composed primarily for the purpose of organizing a set of shorter stories, each of which is a story within a story. Examples include Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. | |
| 135201469 | Free Verse | poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme | |
| 135201470 | Hyperbole | extreme exaggeration | |
| 135201471 | incremental repetition | the repeating of phrases and lines in such a way that their meaning is enhanced either by their appearing in changed contexts or by minor successive changes in the repeated portion | |
| 135201472 | Internal rhyme | rhyme within a line | |
| 135201473 | Irony | the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or, incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens | |
| 135201474 | Dramatic Irony | (theater) irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play | |
| 135201475 | Situational Irony | occurs when the outcome of a work is unexpected, or events turn out to be the opposite from what one had expected | |
| 135201476 | Verbal Irony | occurs when what is said contradicts what is meant or thought | |
| 135201477 | Juxtaposition | the act of placing two things next to each other for implicit comparison | |
| 135201478 | litotes | a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite (describing a particularly horrific scene by saying, "It was not a pretty picture.") | |
| 135201479 | Metaphor | comparison not using like or as | |
| 135201480 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | |
| 135201481 | Meter | a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry | |
| 135201482 | Iambic | one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable | |
| 135201483 | Spondee | a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables | |
| 135201484 | Ode | a poem usually addressed to a particular person, object or event that has stimulated deep and noble feelings in the poet | |
| 135201485 | onomatopoeia | using words that imitate the sound they denote | |
| 135201486 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms | |
| 135201487 | paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | |
| 135201488 | parallelism | phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other | |
| 135201489 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | |
| 135201490 | Quatrain | a stanza of four lines | |
| 135201491 | Sonnet | a short poem with fourteen lines, usually ten-syllable rhyming lines, divided into two, three, or four sections | |
| 135201492 | Spenserian stanza | Eight lines of iambic pentameter and a ninth line of iambic hexameter, called an alexandrine, rhymed ababbcbbc. | |
| 135201493 | stanza | a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem | |
| 135201494 | simile | comparison using like or as | |
| 135201495 | synecdoche | using a part of something to represent the whole thing | |
| 135201496 | Synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") | |
| 135201497 | symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else | |
| 135201498 | terza rima | A stanza form consisting of tercets, rhymed ABA BCB CDC DED etc. |
