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| 102849288 | alexandrine | in prosody, a line of verse having six iambic feet with caesura generally after the third. | |
| 102849289 | alliteration | the repetition of similar sounds, usually initial consonant sounds. | |
| 102849290 | allusion | an act of alluding, a casual or indirect reference | |
| 102849291 | apostrophe | to directly address something inanimate | |
| 102849292 | assonance | resemblance in sound; especially, in prosody, correspondence of accented vowels, but not of consonants | |
| 102849293 | ballad | a story told in verse and usually meant to be sung. | |
| 102849294 | ballad stanza | a type of four line stanza, the first and third lines have four stressed words or syllables; the second and fourth lines have three stresses. | |
| 102849295 | blank verse | verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. | |
| 102849296 | caesura | a break occurring in the middle of a line | |
| 102849297 | canto | a section or division of a long poem | |
| 102849298 | carpe diem tradition | tradition dating back to classical Greek and Latin poetry, and particularly popular among English cavalier poets, to "seize the day" and take risks. | |
| 102849299 | classicism | a movement or tendency of art, literature, or music that reflects the principles manifested in the art of ancient Greece and Rome. | |
| 102849300 | conceit | a kind of metaphor that makes a comparison between two startlingly different things | |
| 102849301 | connotation | all the emotions and associations that a word or phrase may arouse | |
| 102849302 | consonance | the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words | |
| 102849303 | couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | |
| 102849304 | heroic couplet | an iambic pentameter couplet | |
| 102849305 | closed couplet | a couplet in which the two lines form a complete unit of thought | |
| 102849306 | diction | a writer's choice of words particularly for clarity, effectiveness, and precision | |
| 102849307 | dissonance | a harsh or disagreeable combination of sounds, discord | |
| 102849308 | elegy | a poem of mourning, usually over a death | |
| 102849309 | epic | a long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflecting the values of a society from which it originated | |
| 102849310 | epigram | a short, witty pointed statement, often a couplet or quatrain | |
| 102849311 | epitaph | an inscription on a gravestone, or a short poem written in memory of someone who died | |
| 102849312 | figurative language | language that is not intended to be interpreted literally | |
| 102849313 | hyperbole | figure of speech using exaggeration or overstatement for special effect | |
| 102849314 | metaphor | figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically dissimilar | |
| 102849315 | metonymy | figure of speech which something is very closely associated with a thing is used to stand for or suggest the thing itself | |
| 102849316 | oxymoron | figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms | |
| 102849317 | personification | figure of speech when something nonhuman is given human qualities | |
| 102849318 | simile | comparison made between two things through the use of a specific comparison such as like or as | |
| 102849319 | synecdoche | a figure of speech that substitutes a part for a whole | |
| 102849320 | foot | the basic unit of meter, pattern of repeated stress and unstress | |
| 102849321 | feet | meter is determined in units of feet | |
| 102849322 | iamb | one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable | |
| 102849323 | trochee | one stressed syllable followed an unstressed syllable | |
| 102849324 | dactyl | one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllable | |
| 102849325 | anapest | two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable | |
| 102849326 | free verse | verse that has either no metrical pattern or an irregular pattern | |
| 102849327 | iambic pentameter | poetic line consisting of five verse feet with each foot an iamb -that is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable | |
| 102849328 | imagery | words or phrases that create pictures or images in the reader's mind | |
| 102849329 | incremental repetition | the repetition of a previous line or lines but with a slight variation each time that advances the narrative stanza by stanza | |
| 102849330 | internal rhyme | the repetition of sound in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem | |
| 102849331 | lyric | a poem expressing the ideas or feelings of the poet, rather than telling a story. | |
| 102849332 | meter | a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry | |
| 102849333 | mock epic | a comic literary form that treats a trivial subject in the grand, heroic style of the epic | |
| 102849334 | octave | 8 line poem or stanza | |
| 102849335 | ode | a complex and often lengthy lyric poem written in a dignified formal style on a some lofty or serious subject | |
| 102849336 | onomatopoeia | the use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning | |
| 102849337 | parallelism | the use of phrases, clauses, or sentences that are similar or complementary in structure or in meaning | |
| 102849338 | Pastoral | a type of poem that deals in an idealized way with shepherds and rustic life | |
| 102849339 | pathos | the quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity, sorrow, or compassion for the character | |
| 102849340 | Psalm | a song or lyric poem in praise of God | |
| 102849341 | quatrain | a stanza or poem of 4 lines | |
| 102849342 | refrain | A word, phrase, line group, or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem, usually at the end of each stanza | |
| 102849343 | rhyme | the repetition of a sound in 2 or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem | |
| 102849344 | end rhyme | If the rhyme occurs at the end of the lines | |
| 102849345 | internal | rhyme occurs with in a line | |
| 102849346 | slant | rhyme in which only the final consonant sounds of the words are identical | |
| 102849347 | rhyme scheme | pattern of rhymes in a poem | |
| 102849348 | rhythm | the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern. | |
| 102849349 | Romanticism | a movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music and art in western culture during most of the 19th century beginning as a revolt to classicism | |
| 102849350 | Scansion | the analysis of verse in terms of meter | |
| 102849351 | Sestest | six line poem or stanza | |
| 102849352 | Sonnet | a fourteen line lyric poem usually written in rhyme iambic pentameter | |
| 102849353 | sprung rhythm | a term created by the poet Gerard Manly Hopkins to designate a variable kind of poetic meter in which a stressed syllable may be combined with any number of unstressed syllables | |
| 102849354 | symbolism | a literary movement that arose in France in the last half of the 19th century and that greatly influenced many English writers particularly poets of the 20th century | |
| 102849355 | terza rima | an Italian verse form consisting of a series of three line stanzas in which the middle line of each stanza rhymes with the first and third lines of the following stanza | |
| 102849356 | theme | the general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express in a literary work | |
| 102849357 | villanelle | an intricate verse form of French origin consisting of several three line stanza and a concluding four line stanza |
