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| 9554061098 | antithesis | a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences or ideas | 0 | |
| 9554068386 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which someone (usu absent), some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present Ex: Milton! Though shouldst be living in this hour; England hath need of thee...(Wordsworth) | 1 | |
| 9554061099 | ballad meter | a four line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four | 2 | |
| 9554068387 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 3 | |
| 9554073870 | caesura | a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse Ex: "To err is human, to forgive divine." | 4 | |
| 9554077705 | conceit | elaborate analogy or brief metaphor | 5 | |
| 9554077706 | didactic poem | poem which teaches a lesson | 6 | |
| 9554085337 | dirge | a song for the dead | 7 | |
| 9554090117 | elegy | formal poem including meditations on death or another solemn theme | 8 | |
| 9554090118 | enjambment | the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next Ex: Milton's Paradise Lost | 9 | |
| 9554103346 | eye rhyme | rhyme that appears right in spelling, but is half rhyme or slant rhyme Ex: watch and match, love and move | 10 | |
| 9554108352 | feminine rhyme | a rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed; double rhyme Ex: waken and forsaken, audition and rendition | 11 | |
| 9556296168 | end stopped | a line with a pause at the end (period, comma, colon, semi-colon at end) | 12 | |
| 9554108353 | free verse | not written with traditional meter, but rhythmical (Walt Whitman) | 13 | |
| 9554113283 | heroic couplet | two end stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed | 14 | |
| 9554122630 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line | 15 | |
| 9554128007 | lyric poem | any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings. Love lyrics are common. Sonnets and odes are lyric poems | 16 | |
| 9554154592 | inversion | switching typical order of words (Shakespeare) | 17 | |
| 9554137516 | octave | an eight line stanza (first division of Italian sonnet) | 18 | |
| 9554137517 | parallelism | similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry. Characteristic of Asian poetry and the Psalms. | 19 | |
| 9554141581 | quatrain | a four line stanza with any combination of rhymes | 20 | |
| 9554183851 | pastoral | a poem set in tranquil nature, or even more specifically one about shepherds | 21 | |
| 9554141582 | refrain | group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated, usually at the end of a stanza | 22 | |
| 9609561265 | sonnet | a 14 line iambic pentameter poem, (Italian or Petrarchan sonnet=abba, abba, cde, cde or Shakespearean=abab, cdcd, efef, gg | 23 | |
| 9554176000 | sestet | a six line stanza (second part of Italian sonnet) | 24 | |
| 9554286893 | villanelle | a nineteen line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain (Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night) | 25 | |
| 9554183852 | tercet | a stanza of three lines in which each line ends with the same rhyme | 26 |
