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| 8885518501 | alliteration | repetition of similar consonant sounds | 0 | |
| 8885518502 | 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 | |
| 8885518503 | apostrophe | an address to either an absent person, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage | 2 | |
| 8885518504 | assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds |  | 3 |
| 8885518505 | ballad | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. | 4 | |
| 8885518506 | blank verse | a poem with a regular meter but no rhyme |  | 5 |
| 8885518507 | cacophony | a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones |  | 6 |
| 8885518511 | couplet | 2 consecutive rhyming lines |  | 7 |
| 8885518512 | 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 |  | 8 |
| 8885518513 | 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 | 9 | |
| 8885518515 | didactic poem | a poem which is intended to teach a lesson | 10 | |
| 8885518516 | dramatic poem | a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element of dramatic techniques (think theater drama) | 11 | |
| 8885518517 | elegy | a formal poem that mourns the loss of someone, a lament for the dead | 12 | |
| 8885518518 | enjambment | the continuation from one line to the next with no pause |  | 13 |
| 8885518519 | epic poem | a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero | 14 | |
| 8885518521 | eye rhyme/slant rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from pronunciation | 15 | |
| 8885518522 | free verse | poetry which is not written in traditional meter or rhyme |  | 16 |
| 8885518524 | iambic pentameter | five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables. |  | 17 |
| 8885518526 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end |  | 18 |
| 8885518527 | lyric poem | a short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings, usually identified by its musical quality | 19 | |
| 8885518529 | narrative poem | a poem which tells a story or presents a narrative (epics and ballads are examples) | 20 | |
| 8885518530 | octave | an eight line stanza | 21 | |
| 8885518531 | ode | a lyric poem written in the form of an address to someone or something, often elevated in style | 22 | |
| 8885518536 | quatrain | four line stanza |  | 23 |
| 8885518537 | 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 | 24 | |
| 8885518538 | rhyme | correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry | 25 | |
| 8885518539 | rhythm | the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllable | 26 | |
| 8885518540 | rhyme scheme | the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse. |  | 27 |
| 8885518541 | sestet | a six line stanza | | 28 |
| 8885518543 | sonnet | a fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme |  | 29 |
| 8885518545 | stanza | a group of lines in a poem | 30 | |
| 8885518548 | tercet | a stanza of three lines in which each lines ends with the same rhyme |  | 31 |
| 8885518549 | terza rima | a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc |  | 32 |
| 8885518552 | understatement | a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is |  | 33 |
| 8885518553 | 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. |  | 34 |
| 8885518554 | meter | stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem | 35 | |
| 8886367412 | haiku | three non rhyming lines of poetry; lines 1 and 3 have five syllables, line 2 has seven syllables | 36 | |
| 8886378553 | pastoral | type of poem that usually focuses on describing a rural place, but the terms will be peace and harmony | 37 | |
| 8886387104 | Petrarchian/Italian sonnet | 14-line poem divided into two sections by two different groups of rhyming sounds. The first 8 lines is called the octave and rhymes abbaabba | 38 | |
| 8886397402 | Shakespearean/English sonnet | 14-line poem with the following rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg | 39 | |
| 8886412328 | Spenserian sonnet | A sonnet in which the lines are grouped into three interlocked quatrains and a couplet and the rhyme scheme is abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee | 40 |
