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| 8396319115 | alliteration | repetition of similar consonant sounds | 0 | |
| 8396319116 | allusion | a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event person or work | 1 | |
| 8396319117 | apostrophe | an address to either an absent person, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage | 2 | |
| 8396319118 | assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds | 3 | |
| 8396319119 | ballad | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. | 4 | |
| 8396319120 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 5 | |
| 8396319121 | cacophony | a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones | 6 | |
| 8396319122 | conceit | an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy or extended metaphor and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things. | 7 | |
| 8396319123 | Metaphysical Conceit | *a figure of speech that employs unusual and paradoxical images in comparison *used in 17th century *an intricate and intellectual device *usually sets up an analogy between one entity's spiritual qualities and an object in the physical world and sometimes controls the whole structure of the poem. For example, in the following stanzas from "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," John Donne compares two lovers' souls to a draftsman's compass: If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. | 8 | |
| 8396319124 | The Petrarchan conceit | * especially popular with Renaissance writers of sonnets * hyperbolic comparison most often made by a suffering lover of his beautiful mistress to some physical object—e.g., a tomb, the ocean, the sun. Edmund Spenser's Epithalamion, for instance, characterizes the beloved's eyes as being "like sapphires shining bright," with her cheeks "like apples which the sun hath rudded" and her lips "like cherries charming men to bite." | 9 | |
| 8396319125 | couplet | 2 consecutive rhyming lines | 10 | |
| 8396319126 | heroic couplet | Two rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter and used widely in eighteenth-century verse. See more at https://www.thoughtco.com/heroic-couplet-definition-4140168 |  | 11 |
| 8396319127 | mock heroic | *imitating the style of heroic literature in order to satirize an unheroic subject. *used by Alexander Pope, especially in a Rape of the Lock * response to the deluge of epic, pastoral, heroic poems that were being written in the 17th century | 12 | |
| 8396319128 | diction | author/poet's word choice | 13 | |
| 8396319129 | didactic poem | a poem which is intended to teach a lesson | 14 | |
| 8396319130 | dramatic poem | a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element of dramatic techniques (think theater drama) | 15 | |
| 8396319131 | elegy | a formal poem that mourns the loss of someone, a lament for the dead | 16 | |
| 8396319132 | enjambment | the continuation from one line to the next with no pause | 17 | |
| 8396319133 | epic poem | a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero | 18 | |
| 8396319134 | extended metaphor | an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem | 19 | |
| 8396319135 | eye rhyme/slant rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from pronunciation | 20 | |
| 8396319136 | free verse | poetry which is not written in traditional meter or rhyme | 21 | |
| 8396319137 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 22 | |
| 8396319138 | iambic pentameter | five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables. Hint: Shakespeare is famous for using this. Read more at http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-iambic-pentameter.html#ILmjQe2gELeRQ5cZ.99 | 23 | |
| 8396319139 | imagery | anything that appeals to at least one of the five senses, | 24 | |
| 8396319140 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | 25 | |
| 8396319141 | lyric poem | a short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings, usually identified by its musical/lyrical quality | 26 | |
| 8396319142 | metaphor | a direct comparison | 27 | |
| 8396319143 | narrative poem | a poem which tells a story or presents a narrative (epics and ballads are examples) | 28 | |
| 8396319144 | octave | an eight line stanza | 29 | |
| 8396319145 | ode | a lyric poem written in the form of an address to someone or something, often elevated in style | 30 | |
| 8396319146 | onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning | 31 | |
| 8396319147 | oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression | 32 | |
| 8396319148 | paradox | a situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least to make sense | 33 | |
| 8396319149 | personification | giving inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics | 34 | |
| 8396319150 | quatrain | four line stanza | 35 | |
| 8396319151 | refrain | a group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza | 36 | |
| 8396319152 | rhyme | correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry | 37 | |
| 8396319153 | rhythm | the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllable | 38 | |
| 8396319154 | rhyme scheme | the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse. | 39 | |
| 8396319155 | sestet | a six line stanza | 40 | |
| 8396319156 | simile | a comparison of 2 seemingly unlike things using like, as or than | 41 | |
| 8396319157 | sonnet | a fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme | 42 | |
| 8396319158 | speaker | the voice of the poem, not necessarily the poet | 43 | |
| 8396319159 | stanza | a group of lines in a poem | 44 | |
| 8396319160 | symbol | something that represents something else | 45 | |
| 8396319161 | syntax | the ordering of words into patterns or sentences, sentence structure | 46 | |
| 8396319162 | tercet | a stanza of three lines in which each lines ends with the same rhyme | 47 | |
| 8396319163 | terza rima | a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc | 48 | |
| 8396319164 | theme | main thought expressed by a work | 49 | |
| 8396319165 | tone | the author's attitude toward the subject | 50 | |
| 8396319166 | understatement | a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is | 51 | |
| 8396319167 | villanelle | a 19 line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain. Line 1 is repeated in lines 6, 12, and 18 and line 3 is repeated in lines 9, 15, 19. |  | 52 |
| 8396319168 | meter | stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem | 53 |
