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| 4334756694 | alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds Example"Silence surged softly..." | 0 | |
| 4334756695 | assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables Examples: "purple curtain," "young love" | 1 | |
| 4334756696 | 3. cacophony | the opposite of euphony; a harsh, unpleasant combination of sound. Cacophony may be an unconscious flaw, or it may be used consciously for effect, as Browning and Hardy often used it. | 2 | |
| 4334756697 | 4. consonance | the repetition in two or more words of final consonants in stressed syllables Example: "east and west" | 3 | |
| 4334756698 | 5. euphony | pleasing sounds. Opposite of cacophony. | 4 | |
| 4334756699 | 6. meter | a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry | 5 | |
| 4334756700 | 7. Feet | are the individual building blocks of meter. | 6 | |
| 4334756701 | 8. What does an Iambic foot sound like | duh-DUH, as in "above" | 7 | |
| 4334756702 | 9. What does Anapest sound like | duh-duh-DUH as in "but of course" | 8 | |
| 4334756703 | 10. What does Dactyl sound like | DUH-duh-duh, as in "honestly" | 9 | |
| 4334756704 | 11. What does Trochee or trochaic sound like | DUH-duh, as in "pizza" | 10 | |
| 4334756705 | 12. How can poets build a line of verse | Stringing together feet: To build a line of verse, poets string together repetitions of one of1 foot: monometer2 feet: dimeter 3 feet: trimester 4 feet: tetrameter 5 feet: pentameter 6 feet: hexameter | 11 | |
| 4334756706 | 13. Iambic pentameter | duh-DUH (five iambic feet in one line...Shakespearean sonnets) | 12 | |
| 4334756707 | 14. rhyme | the repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem | 13 | |
| 4334756708 | 15. Approximate/slant rhyme | two words are alike in some sounds, but do not rhyme exactly (Example: now and know) | 14 | |
| 4334756709 | 16. End rhyme | occurring at the ends of lines (the most common type of rhyme) | 15 | |
| 4334756710 | 17. Internal rhyme | occurring within a line | 16 | |
| 4334756711 | 18. rhyme scheme | the pattern of end rhymes, labeled with capital letters for the purpose of analysis | 17 | |
| 4334756712 | 19. rhythm | the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern | 18 | |
| 4334756713 | 20. ballad | a song or poem that tells a story of tragedy, adventure, betrayal, revenge, or jealousy | 19 | |
| 4334756714 | 21. blank verse | verse written in unrhymed, iambic pentameter | 20 | |
| 4334756715 | 22. dramatic monologue | a poem in which a character speaks to one or more listeners who remain silent or whose replies are not revealed | 21 | |
| 4334756716 | 23. elegy | a poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual | 22 | |
| 4334756717 | 24. epic | a long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society | 23 | |
| 4334756718 | 25. epitaph | an inscription on a gravestone or a commemorative poem written as if it were for that purpose | 24 | |
| 4334756719 | 26. free verse | unrhymed poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter. It seeks to capture the rhythms of speech | 25 | |
| 4334756720 | 27. heroic couplet | 2 lines of poetry that rhyme and are in iambic pentameter | 26 | |
| 4334756721 | 28. limerick | a humorous, rhyming five-line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme | 27 | |
| 4334756722 | 29. lyric poem | verse that expresses the personal observations and feelings of a single speaker | 28 | |
| 4334756723 | 30. narrative poem | a poem that tells a story | 29 | |
| 4334756724 | 31. ode | a complex and often lengthy lyric poem, written in a dignified formal style on some lofty or serious subject, addresses a subject Example ode to my coffee | 30 | |
| 4334756725 | 32. sonnet | a fourteen-line lyric poem usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter | 31 | |
| 4334756726 | 33. Shakespearean/English sonnet | a sonnet which consists of three quatrains and a couplet. The most common rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. | 32 | |
| 4334756727 | 34. Petrarchan/Italian sonnet | a sonnet which consists of an octave and a sestet with the rhyme scheme being abbaabba cdecde. There is usually a pronounced tonal shift between the octave and sestet as well. | 33 | |
| 4334756728 | 35. sestina | a poem that consists of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy. It makes no use of refrain. The form is usually unrhymed; rather it has a fixed pattern of end-words which demands that these end-words in each stanza be the same, though arranged in a different sequence each time. | 34 | |
| 4334756729 | 36. villanelle | a poem that has 19 lines, 5 stanzas of three lines and 1 stanza of four lines with two rhymes and two refrains. The 1st, then the 3rd lines alternate as the last lines of stanzas 2,3,and 4, and then stanza 5 (the end) as a couplet. It is usually written in tetrameter (4 feet) or pentameter. | 35 | |
| 4334756730 | 37. caesura | (or cesura) A pause or break in a line of verse. Originally, in CLASSICAL literature, the caesura characteristically divides a FOOT between two words, usually near the middle of a line. Some poets, however, have sought diversity of rhythmical effect by placing the caesura anywhere from near the beginning of a line to near the end. | 36 | |
| 4334756731 | 38. closed form | must have rhyme and/or rhythm | 37 | |
| 4334756732 | 39. couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. Heroic couplet is also in iambic pentameter. | 38 | |
| 4334756733 | 40. enjambment | the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction of a verse or couplet on to the next verse or couplet. In other words, the line is not end-stopped, but wraps around to the next line. | 39 | |
| 4334756734 | 41. inversion | a change in normal word order Example: "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" from Frost's "Mending Wall" makes more sense when you say "There is something that doesn't love a wall." | 40 | |
| 4334756735 | 42. open form | basically free verse, no rhyme or rhythm | 41 | |
| 4334756736 | 43. refrain | a word, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem, usually at the end of each stanza | 42 | |
| 4334756737 | 44. stanza | a group of lines in a poem, considered as a unit, like a paragraph in prose Examples of types of stanzas Couplet, two lines that rhyme Tercet- 3 lines quatrain 4 lines, Cinquain- 5 lines, sestet 6 lines Septets- 7 lines, octaves 8 lines | 43 | |
| 4334756738 | 45. allusion | reference to a well-known person, text, historical event, etc. Example Shakespearean and Biblical allusions | 44 | |
| 4334756739 | 46. apostrophe | when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed. | 45 | |
| 4334756740 | 47. conceit | unconventional/unexpected metaphors | 46 | |
| 4334756741 | 48. metaphor | unexpected comparison between two unalike things | 47 | |
| 4334756742 | 49. extended metaphor | a metaphor carried throughout the text or poem | 48 | |
| 4334756743 | 50. personfication | giving human qualities to an inanimate object or force | 49 | |
| 4334756744 | 51. connotation | all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 50 | |
| 4334756745 | 52. denotation | dictionary definition of a word | 51 | |
| 4334756746 | 53. diction | word choice. To discuss a writer's diction is to consider the vocabulary used, the appropriateness of the words, the vividness of the language, and the accompanying connotations of a specific word choice | 52 | |
| 4334756747 | 54. metonymy | a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. Example: The soldier led with his gun. | 53 | |
| 4334756748 | 55. synechdoche | a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. Example: The soldier led with his gun. | 54 | |
| 4334756749 | 56. synaesthesia (also spelled synesthesia) | from the Greek (syn-) "union", and (aesthesis) "sensation"; is the mixing of the senses Examples: Sound that smells of Granny's brownies and tastes like the toil of a dancer. | 55 | |
| 4334756750 | 57. imagery | the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader as well as any descriptions that appeal to the senses: sight (visual), hearing (auditory), touch (tactile), taste (gustatory), or smell (olfactory) | 56 | |
| 4334756751 | 58. figurative language | writing or speech not meant to be interpreted literally (similes, metaphors, etc.) | 57 |
