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| 6067758335 | alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds Example"Silence surged softly..." |  | 0 |
| 6067758336 | assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables Examples: "purple curtain," "young love" |  | 1 |
| 6067758340 | meter | a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry | 2 | |
| 6067758341 | Feet | are the individual building blocks of meter. | 3 | |
| 6067758342 | Iambic | duh-DUH, as in "above" |  | 4 |
| 6067758343 | Anapestic | duh-duh-DUH as in "but of course" | 5 | |
| 6067758344 | Dactylic | DUH-duh-duh, as in "honestly" | 6 | |
| 6067758345 | Trochaic | DUH-duh, as in "pizza" |  | 7 |
| 6067758346 | Iambic pentameter | duh-DUH (five iambic feet in one line...Shakespearean sonnets) |  | 8 |
| 6067758352 | blank verse | verse written in unrhymed, iambic pentameter |  | 9 |
| 6067758354 | elegy | a poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual |  | 10 |
| 6067758355 | epic | a long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society |  | 11 |
| 6067758356 | epitaph | an inscription on a gravestone or a commemorative poem written as if it were for that purpose |  | 12 |
| 6067758357 | free verse | unrhymed poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter. It seeks to capture the rhythms of speech |  | 13 |
| 6067758360 | lyric poem | verse that expresses the personal observations and feelings of a single speaker |  | 14 |
| 6067758363 | Shakespearean/English sonnet | a sonnet which consists of three quatrains and a couplet. The most common rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. |  | 15 |
| 6067758364 | 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. |  | 16 |
| 6067758365 | 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. |  | 17 |
| 6067758368 | couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. Heroic couplet is also in iambic pentameter. |  | 18 |
| 6067758369 | 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. |  | 19 |
| 6067758370 | 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 | 20 | |
| 6067758371 | allusion | reference to a well-known person, text, historical event, etc. Example Shakespearean and Biblical allusions |  | 21 |
| 6067758372 | apostrophe | when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed. | 22 | |
| 6067758373 | conceit | unconventional/unexpected metaphors |  | 23 |
| 6067758374 | metaphor | unexpected comparison between two unalike things |  | 24 |
| 6067758375 | extended metaphor | a metaphor carried throughout the text or poem | 25 | |
| 6067758376 | personfication | giving human qualities to an inanimate object or force | 26 | |
| 6067758377 | connotation | all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests |  | 27 |
| 6067758378 | denotation | dictionary definition of a word |  | 28 |
| 6067758379 | 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 |  | 29 |
| 6067758380 | 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. |  | 30 |
| 6067758381 | synechdoche | a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. |  | 31 |
