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| 6733170799 | alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds Example"Silence surged softly..." |  | 0 |
| 6733170800 | assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables Examples: "purple curtain," "young love" |  | 1 |
| 6733170801 | cacophony | the opposite of euphony; a harsh, unpleasant combination of sound. Cacophony may be an unconscious flaw, or it may be used consciously for effect, as Browning and Hardy often used it. |  | 2 |
| 6733170802 | consonance | the repetition in two or more words of final consonants in stressed syllables Example: "east and west" |  | 3 |
| 6733170803 | euphony | pleasing sounds. Opposite of cacophony. |  | 4 |
| 6733170804 | meter | a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry | 5 | |
| 6733170805 | Feet | are the individual building blocks of meter. | 6 | |
| 6733170806 | Iambic | unstressed-stressed form (like the word aBOVE) |  | 7 |
| 6733170807 | Anapestic | duh-duh-DUH as in "but of course" | 8 | |
| 6733170808 | Dactylic | DUH-duh-duh, as in "honestly" | 9 | |
| 6733170809 | Trochaic | DUH-duh, as in "pizza" |  | 10 |
| 6733170810 | Iambic pentameter | duh-DUH (five iambic feet in one line...Shakespearean sonnets) |  | 11 |
| 6733170811 | Approximate/slant rhyme | two words are alike in some sounds, but do not rhyme exactly (Example: now and know) |  | 12 |
| 6733170812 | End rhyme | occurring at the ends of lines (the most common type of rhyme) |  | 13 |
| 6733170813 | Internal rhyme | occurring within a line |  | 14 |
| 6733170814 | rhyme scheme | the pattern of end rhymes, labeled with capital letters for the purpose of analysis |  | 15 |
| 6733170815 | ballad | a song or poem that tells a story of tragedy, adventure, betrayal, revenge, or jealousy |  | 16 |
| 6733170816 | blank verse | verse written in unrhymed, iambic pentameter |  | 17 |
| 6733170817 | dramatic monologue | a poem in which a character speaks to one or more listeners who remain silent or whose replies are not revealed |  | 18 |
| 6733170818 | elegy | a poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual |  | 19 |
| 6733170819 | epic | a long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society |  | 20 |
| 6733170820 | epitaph | an inscription on a gravestone or a commemorative poem written as if it were for that purpose |  | 21 |
| 6733170821 | free verse | unrhymed poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter. It seeks to capture the rhythms of speech |  | 22 |
| 6733170822 | heroic couplet | 2 lines of poetry that rhyme and are in iambic pentameter |  | 23 |
| 6733170823 | limerick | a humorous, rhyming five-line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme |  | 24 |
| 6733170824 | lyric poem | verse that expresses the personal observations and feelings of a single speaker |  | 25 |
| 6733170825 | narrative poem | a poem that tells a story |  | 26 |
| 6733170826 | ode | a complex and often lengthy lyric poem, written in a dignified formal style on some lofty or serious subject, addresses a subject Example ode to my coffee |  | 27 |
| 6733170827 | Shakespearean/English sonnet | a sonnet which consists of three quatrains and a couplet. The most common rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. |  | 28 |
| 6733170828 | Petrarchan/Italian sonnet | a sonnet which consists of an octave and a sestet with the rhyme scheme being abbaabba cdecde. There is usually a pronounced tonal shift between the octave and sestet as well. |  | 29 |
| 6733170829 | sestina | a poem that consists of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy. It makes no use of refrain. The form is usually unrhymed; rather it has a fixed pattern of end-words which demands that these end-words in each stanza be the same, though arranged in a different sequence each time. |  | 30 |
| 6733170830 | villanelle | a poem that has 19 lines, 5 stanzas of three lines and 1 stanza of four lines with two rhymes and two refrains. The 1st, then the 3rd lines alternate as the last lines of stanzas 2,3,and 4, and then stanza 5 (the end) as a couplet. It is usually written in tetrameter (4 feet) or pentameter. |  | 31 |
| 6733170831 | caesura | A pause or break in a line of verse. |  | 32 |
| 6733170832 | couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. Heroic couplet is also in iambic pentameter. |  | 33 |
| 6733170833 | enjambment | the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction of a verse or couplet on to the next verse or couplet. In other words, the line is not end-stopped, but wraps around to the next line. |  | 34 |
| 6733170834 | stanza | a group of lines in a poem, considered as a unit, like a paragraph in prose Examples of types of stanzas Couplet, two lines that rhyme Tercet- 3 lines quatrain 4 lines, Cinquain- 5 lines, sestet 6 lines Septets- 7 lines, octaves 8 lines | 35 | |
| 6733170835 | allusion | reference to a well-known person, text, historical event, etc. Example Shakespearean and Biblical allusions |  | 36 |
| 6733170836 | apostrophe | when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed. | 37 | |
| 6733170837 | conceit | unconventional/unexpected metaphors |  | 38 |
| 6733170838 | metaphor | comparison between two unalike things |  | 39 |
| 6733170839 | extended metaphor | a metaphor carried throughout the text or poem | 40 | |
| 6733170840 | personfication | giving human qualities to an inanimate object or force | 41 | |
| 6733170841 | connotation | all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests |  | 42 |
| 6733170842 | denotation | dictionary definition of a word |  | 43 |
| 6733170843 | diction | word choice. To discuss a writer's diction is to consider the vocabulary used, the appropriateness of the words, the vividness of the language, and the accompanying connotations of a specific word choice |  | 44 |
| 6733170844 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. Example: The soldier led with his gun. |  | 45 |
| 6733170845 | synechdoche | a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. |  | 46 |
| 6733170846 | synesthesia | a figure of speech in which one sense is described using terms from another. ("The silence was as thick as a forest." or "I smell trouble." or "You could cut the tension in the air with a knife." |  | 47 |
