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| 13060614791 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds at the beginnings of words | 0 | |
| 13060614792 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 1 | |
| 13060614793 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction | 2 | |
| 13060614794 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 3 | |
| 13060614795 | Ballad | A narrative poem that was originally intended to be a song | 4 | |
| 13060614796 | folk ballad | A narrative poem designed to be sung, composed by an anonymous author, and transmitted orally for years or generations before being written down. It has usually undergone modification through the process of oral transmission. | 5 | |
| 13060614797 | literary ballad | A story told in verse in which a known writer imitates a folk ballad. | 6 | |
| 13060614798 | blank verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 7 | |
| 13060614799 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 8 | |
| 13060614800 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 9 | |
| 13060614801 | Couplet | A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. | 10 | |
| 13060614802 | Dictions | a writer's choice of words | 11 | |
| 13060614803 | dramatic monologue | when a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience in a movement of high intensity or deep emotion | 12 | |
| 13060614804 | elegy | An extended meditative poem in which the speaker reflects upon death- often to tribute a person who has died recently- or an equally serious subject | 13 | |
| 13060614805 | Conceit | A more elaborate,formal ingenious comparison than the ordinary extended metaphor | 14 | |
| 13060614806 | figurative language | Languages that communicates ideas beyond the literal meaning of words | 15 | |
| 13060614807 | Form | Refers to the physical arrangement of words in a poem | 16 | |
| 13060614808 | Free Verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 17 | |
| 13060614809 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to evoke humor | 18 | |
| 13060614810 | iambic pentameter | a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable | 19 | |
| 13060614811 | Idiom | A common figure of speech whose meaning is different from the literal meaning of its words | 20 | |
| 13060614812 | Imagery | Refers to words and phrases that create vivid sensory experiences | 21 | |
| 13060614813 | Inversion | The reversal of normal word order in a line of poetry to maintain rhyme scheme | 22 | |
| 13060614814 | Lyric | A short poem in which a single speaker expressed personal thoughts and feelings | 23 | |
| 13060614815 | Metaphor | A figure of speech that compares two things that have something in common | 24 | |
| 13060614816 | meter | The repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry | 25 | |
| 13060614817 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 26 | |
| 13060614818 | narrative poem | a poem that tells a story and has a plot | 27 | |
| 13060614819 | Ode | complex lyric poem that develops a serious and dignified theme | 28 | |
| 13060614820 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 29 | |
| 13060614821 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 30 | |
| 13060614822 | Parody | Writing that imitates wither the style or the subject matter of a letter art work for the purpose of criticism,humorous effect, or flattering tribute | 31 | |
| 13060614823 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 32 | |
| 13060614824 | Poetry | Language arranged lines which attempt to re-create emotions, or experiences | 33 | |
| 13060614825 | Refrain | Part of stanza,consisting of one or more lines that are repeated regularly, sometimes with changes,often at the ends of succeeding stanzas | 34 | |
| 13060614826 | Repitition | a technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity | 35 | |
| 13060614827 | Rhyme | Repetition of sounds at the end of words | 36 | |
| 13060614828 | Rhyme Scheme | the pattern of rhyme in a poem | 37 | |
| 13060614829 | Rhythm | Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 38 | |
| 13060614830 | Simile | A comparison of two unlike things using like or as | 39 | |
| 13060614831 | Sonnet | a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | 40 | |
| 13060614832 | Petrachan/Italian Sonnet | consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd. | 41 | |
| 13060614833 | Shakespearean/Elizabethan sonnet | 14 lines composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern: abab cdcd efef gg | 42 | |
| 13060614834 | Spenserian Sonnet | a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee | 43 | |
| 13060614835 | Speaker | the voice of the poem | 44 | |
| 13060614836 | sprung rhythm | (Created by Gerald Manley Hopkins) varied rhythm with violation of traditional metrical rules to create a more realistic cadence | 45 | |
| 13060614837 | Stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 46 | |
| 13060614838 | Symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. | 47 | |
| 13060614839 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 48 | |
| 13060614840 | Understatement | a technique of creating emphasis by saying less than is actually or literally true | 49 |
