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| 13408897284 | Puritanism | A 16th century era and style adopted by British and American protestants, emphasizing practical Christian piety. | 0 | |
| 13408924036 | Epic | A long narrative poem, usually written about a hero. | 1 | |
| 13408927527 | Blank Verse | Lines with regular meter, but no rhyme. | 2 | |
| 13408931957 | Assonance | Repeating vowel sounds | 3 | |
| 13408937634 | Alliteration | Repeating consonant sounds in the first, emphasized syllables | 4 | |
| 13408945911 | Euphony | Having a melodious, pleasing sound | 5 | |
| 13408949009 | Cacophony | Having a harsh, inharmonious sound | 6 | |
| 13408952373 | Dissonance | Basically the same as a cacophony | 7 | |
| 13408955612 | Onomatopoeia | A word imitating natural sounds | 8 | |
| 13408964855 | Rationalism/Neoclassicism | A 16th-17th century literary era influenced by the Enlightenment, when writers mimicked the "classic style" of Greek and Roman artists, often emphasizing closed form, order and symmetry | 9 | |
| 13408985636 | Elegy | A poem that focuses on death and/or mourns and laments the death of someone | 10 | |
| 13408991018 | Connotation | The figurative or implied meaning of something; "hidden" meaning | 11 | |
| 13408997261 | Denotation | The literal or "on-the-surface" meaning | 12 | |
| 13409001594 | Figurative Language | Describing something by comparing it with something else, seen in devices such as similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole | 13 | |
| 13409011130 | Conceit | An extended metaphor, a device made famous by the Metaphysical poets of the Elizabethan Era | 14 | |
| 13409069990 | Romanticism | A 17th-18th century literary era that rebelled against Enlightenment values by celebrating emotions, the imagination, nature, individualism, and freedom of thought/expression | 15 | |
| 13409085920 | Ode | A poem written to praise or honor, often using elevated diction and lyrical, "song-like" techniques | 16 | |
| 13409094819 | Stanza | A group of lines in a poem and types, such as : Couplet (2 lines) / Quatrain (4 lines) / Sestet (6 lines) / Octave (8 lines) / | 17 | |
| 13409108635 | Attitude | Analyzing tone - the emotions of the speaker of the poem, which is tied closely with diction | 18 | |
| 13409124257 | Sonnet | A 14 line poem, with every line written in iambic pentameter | 19 | |
| 13409140136 | English/Shakespearean Sonnet | 3 quatrains and 1 couplet | 20 | |
| 13409146588 | Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet | 1 octave and 1 sestet | 21 | |
| 13409151027 | Prosody/Scansion | An analysis of poetic meter | 22 | |
| 13409154108 | Rhyme | The pattern of stressed syllables, or "meter" of a poem. An individual set of stressed and unstressed syllables is called a "foot" | 23 | |
| 13409164050 | Feet-Iambic | Iambic (unstressed, stressed) | 24 | |
| 13409173204 | Feet-Trochaic | Trochaic (stressed, unstressed) | 25 | |
| 13409178271 | Feet-Dactylic | Dactylic (stressed, unstressed, unstressed) | 26 | |
| 13409181413 | Number of feet-Tetrameter | 4 feet | 27 | |
| 13409189296 | Number of feet- Pentameter | 5 feet | 28 | |
| 13409192786 | Number of feet- Hexameter | 6 feet | 29 | |
| 13409197467 | Transcendentalism | A 19th century American social and literary movement that emphasized individualism, liberalism, self-reliance, and communion with nature and the spiritual "sublime"/"Oversoul" | 30 | |
| 13409210998 | Lyric | A personal form of poetry that expressed emotions or feelings, often with a musical quality | 31 | |
| 13409217840 | Enjambment | Skipping from one line to the next without punctuation | 32 | |
| 13409223487 | Caesura | A pause, either in the middle or end of a line in poetry | 33 | |
| 13409227625 | Modernism | A 20th century literary era known for its non-traditional experimentation and themes of individualism, relativity, and alienation. It is often viewed as a response to the horrors of the world wars, industrialism, and technology | 34 | |
| 13409247443 | Dramatic Monologue | A poem in which the poet assumes the "persona" of a speaker addressing someone, usually in an expression of ideas or emotions | 35 | |
| 13409256644 | Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of rhyming words at the end of lines | 36 | |
| 13409263687 | Free Verse/Open Form | No rhyme or meter; the opposite of "closed form" | 37 | |
| 13409266954 | Slant Rhyme | An "imperfect" rhyme | 38 | |
| 13409271968 | Feminine Rhyme | A two syllable rhyme | 39 | |
| 13409275111 | Masculine Rhyme | A single syllable rhyme | 40 | |
| 13409279858 | Villanelle | A 19-line poem comprised of five tercets and one quatrain, usually with a pattern of two refrains | 41 | |
| 13409285925 | Prose | Not poetry, writing with a regular grammatical structure | 42 | |
| 13409290356 | Explication | The close analysis of a literary text | 43 | |
| 13409292796 | Refrain | A repeated line or group of lines in a poem, like a "chorus" in a song | 44 |
