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| 8738371996 | accent (or stress) | a syllable given more prominence in pronunciation than its neighbors | 0 | |
| 8738379403 | aesthetic | relating to beauty or a branch of philosophy concerned with art, beauty, and taste | 1 | |
| 8738387115 | alliteration | repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words | 2 | |
| 8738392296 | allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art; casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event | 3 | |
| 8738399680 | anaphora | deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs; one of the devices of repetition, in which the same phrase is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines | 4 | |
| 8738407929 | anthropomorphism | act of attributing human forms or qualities to entities which are not human; specifically used when describing gods or goddesses in human forms and possessing human characteristics such as jealousy, hatred, or love | 5 | |
| 8738415749 | apostrophe | sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person or personified abstraction absent or present | 6 | |
| 8738418674 | aphorism (or authorial intrusion) | brief saying embodying a moral, a concise statement of a principle or precept given in pointed words | 7 | |
| 8738432033 | approximate rhyme (aka imperfect, near, slant, or oblique rhyme) | words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes | 8 | |
| 8738435730 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds | 9 | |
| 8738447951 | ballad | fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form | 10 | |
| 8738448263 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter - also known as Marlowe's Mighty Line; used by Shakespeare as well | 11 | |
| 8738455125 | cacophony | harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds | 12 | |
| 8738478415 | caesura (or rhetorical pause) | a natural pause or break | 13 | |
| 8738481629 | conceit | extended metaphor, or an elaborate parallel between two seemingly dissimilar objects or ideas | 14 | |
| 8738488972 | connotation | association or implied meaning that a word carries along with its literal meaning | 15 | |
| 8738491163 | consonance | repetition of consonant sounds, not vowels | 16 | |
| 8738497404 | continuous form | form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning | 17 | |
| 8738499286 | couplet | two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme | 18 | |
| 8738505367 | denotation | explicit, literal meaning of a word | 19 | |
| 8738515274 | English (or Shakespearean) sonnet | sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg; its content or structure ideally parallels the rhyme scheme, falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet | 20 | |
| 8738520124 | euphony | soothing pleasant sounds | 21 | |
| 8738530137 | explication | detailed analysis of a literary work | 22 | |
| 8738533027 | figurative language | language employing figures of speech; language that cannot be taken literally or only literally | 23 | |
| 8738543285 | foot | basic unit used in the measurement of English verse; usually contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables | 24 | |
| 8738551381 | form | external shape or pattern of a poem, describable without reference to its content, as continuous form, stanzaic form, fixed form (and their varieties), free verse, and syllabic verse | 25 | |
| 8738556489 | free verse | non-metrical poetry in which the basic rhythmic unit is the line, and which pauses, line breaks, and formal patterns develop organically form the requirements of the poem rather than from established poetic forms | 26 | |
| 8738559642 | imagery | language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching | 27 | |
| 8738566262 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line | 28 | |
| 8738574103 | inversion | words out of order; changing of the usual order of words is found mostly in the work of older classical poets, but it is sometimes used by modern writers for the sake of emphasis | 29 | |
| 8738582304 | irony | an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant. three kinds: (1) verbal _____ is when an author says one thing and means something else. (2) dramatic _____ is when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know. (3) situational _____ is a discrepancy between the expected result and actual results. | 30 | |
| 8738602253 | Italian (or Petrachen) sonnet | sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba and a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rhymes such as cdcdcd or cdecde | 31 | |
| 8738610507 | metaphor | comparison of two unlike things using the verb "to be" and NOT using "like" or "as;" either thing can be directly named or implied | 32 | |
| 8738620497 | meter | regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse; the measurable repetition of accented syllables in poetry; when _____ departs from its regular pattern, we call that metrical variation | 33 |
