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| 12624532336 | Alliteration | Repeating a consonant sound in close proximity to others (she sells seashells by the seashore) | 0 | |
| 12624537205 | Allusion | A casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature (e.g Don't act like a Scrooge!) | 1 | |
| 12624540941 | Anapest | A foot or unit of poetry consisting of two light syllables followed by a single stressed syllable (la-la-LA; e.g contradict, engineer) | 2 | |
| 12624549304 | Apostrophe | act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present (oh sweet rose, twinkle twinkle little star) | 3 | |
| 12624553294 | Assonance | repeating identical or similar vowels in nearby words (the cat ran after the alligator, past the pastry shop and the alleyway) | 4 | |
| 12624557831 | Ballad | a narrative poem consisting of quatrains of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter | 5 | |
| 12624562461 | Blank verse | unrhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even-numbered syllables bearing accents | 6 | |
| 12624571390 | Bildungsroman | german term for a coming-of-age story | 7 | |
| 12624575176 | Caesura | a pause separating phrases within lines of poetry (It is for you we speak, // not for ourselves) | 8 | |
| 12624579611 | Colloquialism | a word of phrase used in plain and relaxed speech but rarely found in formal writing (ain't,gonna) | 9 |
