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| 6423159691 | verse | any composition in lines of more of less regular rhythm, usually ending in rimes | 0 | |
| 6423159692 | paraphrase | putting into your own words what we understand the poem to say, restating essential ideas | 1 | |
| 6423159693 | summary | a brief condensation or gist, main idea, or story | 2 | |
| 6423159694 | theme | the central thought of the poem | 3 | |
| 6423159695 | subject | the main topic, whatever the poem is about | 4 | |
| 6423159696 | carpe diem | Latin for "seize the day" | 5 | |
| 6423159697 | lyric | a short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker | 6 | |
| 6423159698 | narrative poem | a poem whose main purpose is to tell a story | 7 | |
| 6423159699 | dramatic poetry | presents the voice of an imaginary character speaking directly, without any narration by the author | 8 | |
| 6423159700 | dramatic monologue | a poem written as a speech made by a character (other than the author) at some decisive moment | 9 | |
| 6423159701 | didactic poetry | a poem apparently written to state a message or teach a body of knowledge | 10 | |
| 6423159702 | prosody | the study of metrical structures in poetry | 11 | |
| 6423159703 | scansion | a matter of listening to a poem and making sense of it | 12 | |
| 6423159704 | foot | a unit of two or three syllables that contains one strong stress | 13 | |
| 6423159705 | iambic | a line made up primarily of iambs | 14 | |
| 6423159706 | iambs | an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable | 15 | |
| 6423159707 | anapestic | a line made up primarily of anapests | 16 | |
| 6423159708 | anapests | two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable | 17 | |
| 6423159709 | trochaic | a line made up primarily of trochees | 18 | |
| 6423159710 | trochees | a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable | 19 | |
| 6423159711 | dactylic | a line made up primarily of dactyls | 20 | |
| 6423159712 | dactyls | one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables | 21 | |
| 6423159713 | rising | from unstressed to stressed | 22 | |
| 6423159714 | falling | from stressed to unstressed | 23 | |
| 6423159715 | iambic pentameter | a line of five iambs | 24 | |
| 6423159716 | accentual meter | the poet does not write in feet but instead counts accents (stresses) | 25 | |
| 6423159717 | quantitative meter | a meter constructed on the principle of vowel length | 26 | |
| 6423159718 | form | general idea, the design of a thing as a whole | 27 | |
| 6423159719 | closed form | a poet follows some sort of pattern | 28 | |
| 6423159720 | open form | a poet views the writing of a poem a process | 29 | |
| 6423159721 | epic | long narratives tracing the adventures of popular heroes | 30 | |
| 6423159722 | blank verse | unrimed iambic pentameter | 31 | |
| 6423159723 | couplet | a two line stanza, usually rimed | 32 | |
| 6423159724 | heroic/closed couplet | two rimed lines of an iambic pentameter | 33 | |
| 6423159725 | parallel | pair of words, phrases, clauses, or sentences side by side in agreement or similarity | 34 | |
| 6423159726 | antithesis | in contrast and opposition to parallel (phrases not in agreement) | 35 | |
| 6423159727 | tercet | a group of three lines | 36 | |
| 6423159728 | Terza rima | made of tercets linked together by the rime scheme | 37 | |
| 6423159729 | quatrain | a stanza consisting of four lines | 38 | |
| 6423159730 | syllabic verse | the poet establishes a pattern of a certain number of syllables to a line | 39 | |
| 6423159731 | acrostic | a poem in which the initial letter of each line, read downward, sells out a word | 40 | |
| 6423159732 | fixed form | a poem inherits from other poems certain familiar elements of structure | 41 | |
| 6423159733 | conventions | expected features such as themes, subjects, attitudes, or figures of speech | 42 | |
| 6423159734 | sonnet | the fixed form | 43 | |
| 6423159735 | English (Shakespearean) sonnet | rimes cohere in four clusters | 44 | |
| 6423159736 | Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet | follows the rime scheme a b b a, a b b a in its octave then adds new rime sounds in the sestet | 45 | |
| 6423159737 | octave | the first eight lines in a poem | 46 | |
| 6423159738 | sestet | the last eight lines in a poem | 47 | |
| 6423159739 | epigram | a short poem ending in a witty turn of thought to which the rest of the composition is intended to lead up | 48 | |
| 6423159740 | limerick | five anapestic lines usually riming a a b b a | 49 | |
| 6423159741 | triolet | a short lyric whose first two opening lines are repeated according to a set pattern | 50 |
