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| 6073246882 | assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables Examples: "purple curtain," "young love" |  | 0 |
| 6073246883 | meter | a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry | 1 | |
| 6073246884 | Feet | are the individual building blocks of meter. | 2 | |
| 6073246890 | blank verse | verse written in unrhymed, iambic pentameter |  | 3 |
| 6073246891 | elegy | a poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual |  | 4 |
| 6073246892 | epic | a long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society |  | 5 |
| 6073246893 | epitaph | an inscription on a gravestone or a commemorative poem written as if it were for that purpose |  | 6 |
| 6073246894 | free verse | unrhymed poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter. It seeks to capture the rhythms of speech |  | 7 |
| 6073246895 | lyric poem | verse that expresses the personal observations and feelings of a single speaker |  | 8 |
| 6073246896 | Shakespearean/English sonnet | a sonnet which consists of three quatrains and a couplet. The most common rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. |  | 9 |
| 6073246897 | 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. |  | 10 |
| 6073246898 | 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. |  | 11 |
| 6073246899 | couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. Heroic couplet is also in iambic pentameter. |  | 12 |
| 6073246900 | 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. |  | 13 |
| 6073246901 | 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 | 14 | |
| 6073246902 | Chiasmus | The first and second parts of the poem are structurally balanced however are in reverse | 15 | |
| 6073246903 | Confessional poetry | A poem where an author reveals intimate details about their life | 16 | |
| 6073246904 | Elegy | A poem that honors the dead. | 17 | |
| 6073246905 | Epic | A long poem that tells a story of a hero's journey whom posses morals of society | 18 | |
| 6073246906 | Free verse | Does not use traditional meters and rhyme schemes | 19 | |
| 6073246907 | Kenning | Describe an object in confusing detail | 20 | |
| 6073246908 | Lyric Poem | An outlet for the speakers feeling without the speaker telling a story to the readers | 21 | |
| 6073246909 | Quatrain | A stanza of four lines | 22 | |
| 6073246910 | Refrains | Repitition to impact the readers | 23 | |
| 6073246911 | Rhythm | is a literary device which demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables particularly in verse form. | 24 | |
| 6073246912 | Stress (accents) | Are more emphasis one than on another | 25 | |
| 6073246913 | Meter | Rhythmic pattern | 26 | |
| 6073246914 | Prosody | All material property in a poem | 27 | |
| 6073246915 | ambiguity | double meaning to alter readers' interpretation | 28 | |
| 6073246916 | analogy | expressing the similarity between two things that are similar or different | 29 | |
| 6073246917 | anaphora | starting two or more sentences with the same word, phrase, or clause in order to make a point more coherent | 30 | |
| 6073246918 | anastrophe | reverse of the normal sentence structure to create emphasis | 31 | |
| 6073246920 | anitmetabole | repeating of words in clauses with the grammatical structure reversed | 32 | |
| 6073246923 | anthropomorphism | personifying animals and non-living objects | 33 | |
| 6073246930 | diction | refers to the writer's choice of words | 34 | |
| 6073246931 | didactic | a work that have the primary aim of teaching or instructing moral principles | 35 | |
| 6073246932 | elegy | a poem usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead. | 36 | |
| 6073246933 | epigraph | a quotation or sentence placed at the beginning of a piece of literary work to suggest the theme of the piece. | 37 | |
| 6073246934 | epistrophe | Repetition at the end of successive clauses. | 38 | |
| 6073246937 | hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration or overstatement | 39 | |
| 6073246941 | litotes | an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions. | 40 | |
| 6073246942 | dead metaphor | a figure of speech which has lost the original imagery of its meaning due to extensive, repetitive, and popular usage. | 41 | |
| 6073246943 | mixed metaphor | a metaphor whose terms causes confusion for visual image | 42 | |
| 6073246944 | metonymy | substitution of a name of one object to one closer associated with it . | 43 | |
| 6073246946 | paradox | a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or common sense but has some truth or validity | 44 | |
| 6073246950 | pun | a play on words in which a humorous effect is produced by using a word that suggests two or more meanings or by exploiting similar sounding words having different meanings. | 45 | |
| 6073246951 | rhetorical question | question asked without expectation of an answer in order to make emphasis on a certain point to the audience | 46 | |
| 6073246953 | symbol | anything that holds meaning itself but is used to express a different meaning | 47 | |
| 6073246954 | synecdoche | is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that refers to a part of something is substituted to stand in for the whole, or vice versa | 48 | |
| 6073246956 | understatement | A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is. | 49 |
