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| 5299582220 | accent | the same as stress. a syllable given more prominence in pronunciation than its neighbors is said to be accented | 0 | |
| 5299587075 | allegory | a narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one | 1 | |
| 5299590573 | alliteration | the repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (ex: kill-code). Important words and accented syllables beginning with vowels are also included | 2 | |
| 5299602201 | allusion | a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in literature or history | 3 | |
| 5299604926 | anapest | a metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable (ex: un-der-stand) | 4 | |
| 5299609668 | anapestic meter | a meter in which a majority of the feet are anapests | 5 | |
| 5299613617 | anaphora | repetition of an opening word or phrase in a series of lines | 6 | |
| 5299618024 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and could reply | 7 | |
| 5299623509 | approximate rhyme | (aka imperfect, near, slant or oblique) a term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound or correspondence but are not perfect rhymes | 8 | |
| 5299634080 | assonance | the repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words | 9 | |
| 5299638182 | aubade | a poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn | 10 | |
| 5299641318 | ballad | a fairly short narrative poem written in songlike stanza form | 11 | |
| 5299643322 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 12 | |
| 5299646210 | cacophony | a harsh, discordant, unpleasant sounding choice and arrangement of sounds | 13 | |
| 5299648702 | caesura | a speech pause occurring within a line | 14 | |
| 5299652241 | connotation | what a word suggests beyond its basic dictionary definition | 15 | |
| 5299655319 | consonance | the repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables of important words | 16 | |
| 5299658190 | continuous form | the form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning | 17 | |
| 5299664583 | couplet | two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme | 18 | |
| 5299667834 | dactyl | a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables (ex: mer-il-ly) | 19 | |
| 5299672855 | dactylic meter | a meter in which the majority of the feet are dactyls | 20 | |
| 5299675150 | denotation | the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word | 21 | |
| 5299677031 | didactic poetry | poetry having as a primary purpose to teach or preach | 22 | |
| 5299679724 | dimeter | a metrical line containing two feet | 23 | |
| 5299682836 | dramatic framework | the situation, whether actual or fictional, realistic or fanciful, in which an author places his or her characters in order to express the theme | 24 |
