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| 5251941410 | alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds Example"Silence surged softly..." | 0 | |
| 5251941411 | assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables Examples: "purple curtain," "young love" | 1 | |
| 5251941412 | 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 | |
| 5251941413 | consonance | the repetition in two or more words of final consonants in stressed syllables Example: "east and west" | 3 | |
| 5251941414 | euphony | pleasing sounds. Opposite of cacophony. | 4 | |
| 5251941415 | meter | a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry | 5 | |
| 5251941416 | Feet | are the individual building blocks of meter. | 6 | |
| 5251941417 | Iambic | duh-DUH, as in "above" | 7 | |
| 5251941418 | Anapestic | duh-duh-DUH as in "but of course" | 8 | |
| 5251941419 | Dactylic | DUH-duh-duh, as in "honestly" | 9 | |
| 5251941420 | Trochaic | DUH-duh, as in "pizza" | 10 | |
| 5251941421 | Iambic pentameter | duh-DUH (five iambic feet in one line...Shakespearean sonnets) | 11 | |
| 5251941422 | Approximate/slant rhyme | two words are alike in some sounds, but do not rhyme exactly (Example: now and know) | 12 | |
| 5251941423 | End rhyme | occurring at the ends of lines (the most common type of rhyme) | 13 | |
| 5251941424 | Internal rhyme | occurring within a line | 14 | |
| 5251941425 | rhyme scheme | the pattern of end rhymes, labeled with capital letters for the purpose of analysis | 15 | |
| 5251941426 | ballad | a song or poem that tells a story of tragedy, adventure, betrayal, revenge, or jealousy | 16 | |
| 5251941427 | blank verse | verse written in unrhymed, iambic pentameter | 17 | |
| 5251941428 | dramatic monologue | a poem in which a character speaks to one or more listeners who remain silent or whose replies are not revealed | 18 | |
| 5251941429 | elegy | a poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual | 19 | |
| 5251941430 | epic | a long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society | 20 | |
| 5251941431 | epitaph | an inscription on a gravestone or a commemorative poem written as if it were for that purpose | 21 | |
| 5251941432 | free verse | unrhymed poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter. It seeks to capture the rhythms of speech | 22 | |
| 5251941433 | heroic couplet | 2 lines of poetry that rhyme and are in iambic pentameter | 23 | |
| 5251941434 | limerick | a humorous, rhyming five-line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme | 24 | |
| 5251941435 | lyric poem | verse that expresses the personal observations and feelings of a single speaker | 25 | |
| 5251941436 | narrative poem | a poem that tells a story | 26 | |
| 5251941437 | 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 | 27 | |
| 5251941438 | Shakespearean/English sonnet | a sonnet which consists of three quatrains and a couplet. The most common rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. | 28 | |
| 5251941439 | 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. | 29 | |
| 5251941440 | 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. | 30 | |
| 5251941441 | 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. | 31 | |
| 5251941442 | caesura | 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. | 32 | |
| 5251941443 | couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. Heroic couplet is also in iambic pentameter. | 33 | |
| 5251941444 | 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. | 34 | |
| 5251941445 | 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 | 35 | |
| 5251941446 | allusion | reference to a well-known person, text, historical event, etc. Example Shakespearean and Biblical allusions | 36 | |
| 5251941447 | apostrophe | when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed. | 37 | |
| 5251941448 | conceit | unconventional/unexpected metaphors | 38 | |
| 5251941449 | metaphor | unexpected comparison between two unalike things | 39 | |
| 5251941450 | extended metaphor | a metaphor carried throughout the text or poem | 40 | |
| 5251941451 | personfication | giving human qualities to an inanimate object or force | 41 | |
| 5251941452 | connotation | all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 42 | |
| 5251941453 | denotation | dictionary definition of a word | 43 | |
| 5251941454 | 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 | 44 | |
| 5251941455 | 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. | 45 | |
| 5251941456 | synechdoche | a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. | 46 | |
| 5251941457 | synesthesia | the mixing of the senses | 47 |
