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| 9202473530 | ballad | a story told in verse and usually meant to be sung | 0 | |
| 9202473531 | literary ballad | a poem that tells a tale without music | 1 | |
| 9202473532 | Onomatopoeia | the use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes | 2 | |
| 9202683849 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words | 3 | |
| 9202683850 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 4 | |
| 9202683851 | euphony | lines that are musically pleasant to the ear and smooth | 5 | |
| 9202683852 | cacophony | lines that are discordant and difficult to pronounce | 6 | |
| 9202683853 | rhyme | a way of creating sound patterns | 7 | |
| 9202683854 | end rhyme | rhyme at the end of a line | 8 | |
| 9202683855 | eye rhyme | rhyme based on spelling rather than sound | 9 | |
| 9202683856 | internal rhyme | places at least one of the rhymed words within the line | 10 | |
| 9202683857 | masculine rhyme | the rhyming of single-syllable words | 11 | |
| 9202683858 | feminine rhyme | consists of a rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more identical unstressed syllables | 12 | |
| 9202683859 | exact rhyme | share the same stressed vowel sounds as well as sharing sounds that follow the vowel | 13 | |
| 9202683860 | near rhyme | sounds are almost but not exactly alike | 14 | |
| 9202683861 | Consonance | An identical consonant sound preceded by a different vowel sound | 15 | |
| 9202683862 | rhythm | the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables | 16 | |
| 9202683863 | stress/accent | places more emphasis on one syllable than on another | 17 | |
| 9202683864 | meter | a rhythmic pattern of stresses | 18 | |
| 9202683865 | prosody | all the metrical elements in a poem | 19 | |
| 9202683866 | scansion | measuring the stresses in a line to determine its metrical pattern | 20 | |
| 9202683867 | foot | the metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured | 21 | |
| 9202683868 | iamb | unstressed, stressed | 22 | |
| 9202683869 | trochee | stressed, unstressed | 23 | |
| 9202683870 | anapest | unstressed, unstressed, stressed | 24 | |
| 9202683871 | dactyl | stressed, unstressed, unstressed | 25 | |
| 9202683872 | spondee | stressed, stressed | 26 | |
| 9202683873 | rising meter | unstressed to stressed | 27 | |
| 9202683874 | falling meter | stressed to unstressed | 28 | |
| 9202683875 | line | measured by the number of feet it contains | 29 | |
| 9202683876 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 30 | |
| 9202683877 | masculine ending | a line that ends with a stressed syllable | 31 | |
| 9202683878 | feminine ending | a line that ends with an extra unstressed syllable | 32 | |
| 9202683879 | Caesura | a pause within a line | 33 | |
| 9202683880 | end-stopped line | when a line has a pause at its end | 34 | |
| 9202683881 | Enjambment | running over from one line to another | 35 | |
| 9202683882 | form | overall structure or shape of a poem | 36 | |
| 9202683883 | fixed form | A poem that may be categorized by the pattern of its lines, meter, rhythm, or stanzas | 37 | |
| 9202904833 | free verse/open form | poems that do not conform to established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza | 38 | |
| 9202904834 | stanza | a grouping of lines, set off by a space, that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme | 39 | |
| 9202904835 | rhyme scheme | pattern of end rhymes | 40 | |
| 9202904836 | Couplet | two lines that usually rhyme and have the same meter | 41 | |
| 9202904837 | heroic couplet | couplet written in rhymed iambic pentameter | 42 | |
| 9202904838 | Italian Sonnet (Petrarchan) | fourteen line poem broken into an octave and a sestet | 43 | |
| 9202904839 | English Sonnet (Shakespearean) | fourteen line poem consisting of three quatrains and a couplet | 44 | |
| 9202904840 | Villanelle | a nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain | 45 | |
| 9202904841 | ode | a long, lyrical poem, usually serious or meditative in nature | 46 | |
| 9202904842 | symbol | something that represents something else | 47 | |
| 9202904843 | Allegory | Narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning | 48 |
