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| 6495445741 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 0 | |
| 6495445742 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 1 | |
| 6495449139 | Assonance | in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence ). | 2 | |
| 6495449140 | Ballad | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture. Written in quatrains. | 3 | |
| 6495451526 | Caesura | (in modern verse) a pause near the middle of a line. | 4 | |
| 6495456790 | Cosonance | the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity (chiefly as used in prosody). | 5 | |
| 6495456791 | Couplet | two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. | 6 | |
| 6495458833 | Dramatic Monologue | a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events. | 7 | |
| 6495458834 | Elegy | a sad poem, usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead. | 8 | |
| 6495460855 | End-stopped lines | a poetic device in which a pause comes at the end of a syntactic unit (sentence, clause or phrase); this pause can be expressed in writing as a punctuation mark such as a colon, semi-colon, period or full stop. | 9 | |
| 6495460856 | Enjambment | (in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 10 | |
| 6495463856 | Free verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter. | 11 | |
| 6495463857 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 12 | |
| 6495463858 | Iamb | a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable. | 13 | |
| 6495465492 | Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. | 14 | |
| 6495465493 | Kenning | a conventional poetic phrase used for or in addition to the usual name of a person or thing, especially in Icelandic and Anglo-Saxon verse, as "a wave traveler" for "a boat.". | 15 | |
| 6495465494 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. | 16 | |
| 6495467552 | Meter | a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem. | 17 | |
| 6495467553 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing. | 18 | |
| 6495467554 | Ode | a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter. | 19 | |
| 6495469514 | Paradox | a statement that is self contradictory because it often contains two statements that are both true, but in general, cannot both be true at the same time. | 20 | |
| 6495469515 | Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 21 | |
| 6495474049 | Petrarchan/ Italian Sonnet | a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abba abba and a sestet rhyming in any of various patterns (as cde cde or cdc dcd) | 22 | |
| 6495474050 | Quatrain | a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes. | 23 | |
| 6495476143 | Refrain | a verse, a line, a set, or a group of some lines that appears at the end of stanza, or appears where a poem divides into different sections. | 24 | |
| 6495478831 | Rhyme | correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. | 25 | |
| 6495480569 | Slant Rhyme | a type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds. In most instances, either the vowel segments are different while the consonants are identical, or vice versa. | 26 | |
| 6495488657 | Approximate, Masculine Rhyme | when a poet keeps the same vowel sounds, but uses words with different ending consonant sounds. For example, 'grudge' and 'love'. The vowel sounds in these two words are the same, but the 'dg' sound is similar to, but not the exact same as, the 'v' sound. | 27 | |
| 6495490413 | Feminine, Internal Rhyme | a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables (e.g., stocking / shocking, glamorous / amorous .). | 28 | |
| 6495493079 | Shakespearean Sonnet | The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg. Also called Elizabethan sonnet, English sonnet. | 29 | |
| 6495493080 | Simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ). Uses like or as. | 30 | |
| 6495493081 | Sonnet | a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. | 31 | |
| 6495495132 | Speaker | the voice behind the poem—the person we imagine to be saying the thing out loud. | 32 | |
| 6495495133 | Symbolism | the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense. | 33 | |
| 6495497482 | Synechdoche | A figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something or vice versa. | 34 | |
| 6495497483 | Synesthesia | refers to a technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell etc. at a given time. | 35 | |
| 6495499334 | Terza Rima | an arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme aba bcb cdc, etc., as in Dante's Divine Comedy. | 36 | |
| 6495499335 | Tercet, Triplet | A 3-lined stanza. | 37 | |
| 6495501147 | Tone | The poet's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader. | 38 | |
| 6495501148 | Villanelle | a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. | 39 | |
| 6495504397 | Visual or concrete Poetry | poetry in which the meaning or effect is conveyed partly or wholly by visual means, using patterns of words or letters and other typographical devices. | 40 |
