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| 4795891726 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds or letters, mainly for tonal effects. "Scyld, son of Sceaf, Snatched from the forces of savage foes" Basic form of Anglo-Saxon and some medieval verse | 0 | |
| 4795891729 | Anaphora | Repetition of the same words at the beginning of several consecutive sentences | 1 | |
| 4795891769 | End Rhyme | Rhymes appearing at the end of lines of poetry | 2 | |
| 4795891770 | Enjambment | A poetic expression that spans more than one line. | 3 | |
| 4795891793 | Metonymy | Substitution of one term for another that is generally associated with it; "suits" instead of "businessmen" | 4 | |
| 4795891794 | Meter | The pattern created in a line of poetry by its structure of sounds and stressed syllables. | 5 | |
| 4795891795 | Mood | The feeling a text arouses in the reader: happiness, sadness, peacefulness, ect. | 6 | |
| 4795891818 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech that refers to a whole entity by identifying only a part of it. The Crown, for the English | 7 | |
| 4795891821 | Tone | The attitude of the author toward the reader or the subject matter of a literary work | 8 | |
| 4795909953 | alliteration` | The repetition of initial identical sounds in successive words or syllables that repeat | 9 | |
| 4795910641 | asyndeton | Omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. (Ex.: She received medals, honors, treasures, titles, fame.) | 10 | |
| 4795910642 | anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. (Ex.: On Saturday, he was happy. On Saturday, his enemy died.) | 11 | |
| 4795911047 | metaphor | A figure of speech using implied comparisons of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one thing over another, suggesting some similarity. (Ex.: The quiet kid became a tiger when he got mad.) | 12 | |
| 4795911048 | simile | A figurative usage that compares, usually with words such as "like," "as," or "if." (Ex.: The quiet kid was like a tiger when he got mad.) | 13 | |
| 4795912416 | internal rhyme | a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. | 14 | |
| 4795912417 | consonance | the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity | 15 | |
| 4795912866 | assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 16 | |
| 4795913399 | enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 17 | |
| 4795914177 | pastoral | portraying an idealized version of country life | 18 | |
| 4795914632 | elegy | a sad poem, usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead | 19 | |
| 4795915073 | Petrarchan sonnet (or Italian sonnet) | a sonnet form (14 line poem) popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave (first stanza) with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet (second stanza) with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd. | 20 | |
| 4795915074 | ode | a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner | 21 | |
| 4795916935 | Shakespearean sonnet (or Elizabethan sonnet) | A sonnet form (14 lines), with the first 12 lines divided into 3 quatrains (stanzas with four lines each) and ending with a couplet (two rhyming lines). In the three quatrains the poet establishes a theme or problem and then resolves it in the final two lines. The rhyme scheme of the quatrains is abab cdcd efef. The couplet has the rhyme scheme gg. | 22 |
