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| 6281250737 | Alliteration | repeating consonant sound in close proximity to others | 0 | |
| 6281253607 | Allusion | a casual reference in literature to a person, place, or event in another passage of literature | 1 | |
| 6281257219 | Anapest | a foot or unit of poetry consisting of two light syllables followed by a single stressed syllable | 2 | |
| 6281260834 | Apostrophe | act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present | 3 | |
| 6281264114 | Assonance | repeating identical or similar vowels in nearby words | 4 | |
| 6281266405 | Ballad | a narrative poem consisting of quatrains of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter | 5 | |
| 6281270834 | Blank verse | unrhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even numbered syllables bearing accents | 6 | |
| 6281273930 | Bildungsroman | German term for a coming of age story | 7 | |
| 6281275599 | Caesura | a pause separating phrases within lines of poetry | 8 | |
| 6281278215 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase used in plain and relaxed speech but rarely found in formal writing | 9 | |
| 6332927738 | Conceit | an elaborate or unusual comparison using unlikely metaphors, simile, hyperbole, or contradiction | 10 | |
| 6332929378 | Connotation | additional meaning a word carries beyond its strict definition | 11 | |
| 6332929379 | Consonance | alliteration in which the repeated consonants are marked by changes in intervening vowels | 12 | |
| 6332931961 | Convention | a common feature that has become traditional or unexpected | 13 | |
| 6332931962 | Couplet | two lines of the same metrical length that end in a rhyme to form a complete unit | 14 | |
| 6332937608 | Dactyl | a three syllable foot consisting of a heavy stress and two light stresses | 15 | |
| 6332939641 | Denotation | the minimal, strict definition of a word as found in a dictionary | 16 | |
| 6332944141 | Diction | the choice of a particular word as opposed to others | 17 | |
| 6332944142 | Didactic | writing that seeks to overtly convince a reader of a particular point or lesson | 18 | |
| 6332948017 | Dramatic Monologue | a poem in which a poetic speaker addresses either the reader or an internal listener | 19 | |
| 6345904534 | Dramatic Poem | a poem containing emotional, spiritual, and detailed elements | 20 | |
| 6345904535 | Elegy | a poem dealing with the subject matter common to early Greco Roman poems | 21 | |
| 6345904536 | Epiphany | a sudden flare into revelation of an ordinary object or scene | 22 | |
| 6345904537 | Explication | the act of making clear or removing obscurity from the meaning of a word or symbol | 23 | |
| 6345904538 | Figurative Language | the use of something other than the literal meaning of words to express an idea | 24 | |
| 6345904539 | Foil | a character that serves by contrast to highlight or emphasize opposing traits in another character | 25 | |
| 6384735024 | Foot | a basic unit of meter consisting of a set number of strong stresses and light stresses | 26 | |
| 6384735025 | Formulaic | constituting or containing a verbal formula or set form of words | 27 | |
| 6384736042 | Free Verse | poetry based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses rather than constraints of meter | 28 | |
| 6384736043 | Hubris | implying arrogance or excessive self-pride | 29 | |
| 6400070324 | Hyperbole | exaggeration or overstatement | 30 | |
| 6400070325 | Iamb | a unit or foot of poetry that consists of a lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed syllable | 31 | |
| 6400070981 | Iambic pentameter | a lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed syllable, five feet long | 32 | |
| 6400070982 | Imagery | sensory perceptions referred to through description, allusion, simile, and metaphor | 33 | |
| 6400071585 | Internal rhyme | poetic device in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end | 34 | |
| 6400071586 | Intrusive narrator | an omniscient narrator who reports on the events of a story and further, comments on it | 35 | |
| 6400072351 | Irony | saying one thing and meaning another, verbal, dramatic, and situational irony | 36 | |
| 6400073094 | Leitmotif | used to designate a musical theme associated with a particular object, character or emotion | 37 | |
| 6400073095 | Literal | a passage, story, or text intended only as a factual account of a real historical event | 38 | |
| 6400073675 | Litotes | a form of understatement using a negative statement | 39 | |
| 6483253153 | Lyric | a short poem often only a dozen lines long, often designed to be set to music | 40 | |
| 6483257172 | Metaphor | a comparison or analogy state in a way as to imply that one object is another one | 41 | |
| 6483260611 | Meter | a recognizable, varying patter of stresses syllables alternating with syllables of less stress | 42 | |
| 6483266809 | Metonymy/synecdoche | a specific physical object used as a vague, suggestive symbol for a more general idea | 43 | |
| 6483270185 | Monologue | a character speaking aloud to himself, narrating an account for the audience alone | 44 | |
| 6483275323 | Mood | feeling, emotional state, or disposition of mind | 45 | |
| 6483277988 | Motif | a conspicuous recurring element such as an incident, device, reference, or verbal formula | 46 | |
| 6483279711 | Narrative Poem | a poem that has a plot including epics, ballads, idylls, and lays | 47 | |
| 6483279712 | Narrator | the voice that speaks or tells a story | 48 | |
| 6483281367 | Octave | a set of eight lines that rhyme according to the pattern ABBAABBA | 49 | |
| 6771628390 | Ode | a long, elaborate poem of varying lines with a serious subject matter | 50 | |
| 6771628391 | Onomatopoeia | the use of sounds that are similar to the noise they represent for a rhetorical or artistic effect | 51 | |
| 6771628392 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech that produces an incongruous seemingly self-contradictory effect | 52 | |
| 6771628393 | Parable | a story of short narrative designed to reveal allegorically some religious principle, lesson, or truth | 53 | |
| 6771628394 | Paradox | using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense of a deeper level | 54 | |
| 6771628395 | Paraphrase | a brief restatement in one's own words of all or part of a literary or critical work | 55 | |
| 6771628396 | Parody | imitates the manner and characteristic features of a particular work in order to mock it | 56 | |
| 6771628397 | Pathos | elements used to inspire an emotional reaction | 57 | |
| 6771628398 | Persona | an external representation of oneself which might or might not accurately reflect one's inner self | 58 | |
| 6771628399 | Personification | a device through which animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human characteristics | 59 | |
| 6839046195 | Prosody | the mechanics of verse poetry-sounds, rhythms, scansion, meter, stanzaic form, alliteration, rhyme | 60 | |
| 6839046196 | Pun | a play on two words similar in sound but different in meaning | 61 | |
| 6839047532 | Quatrain | a stanza of four lines, often rhyming in an ABAB pattern | 62 | |
| 6839047533 | Refrain | a line or set of lines at the end of a stanza or section of a longer poem, repeated at regular intervals | 63 | |
| 6839047534 | Rhyme | a matching similarity of sounds in two or more words | 64 | |
| 6839049500 | Rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyme | 65 | |
| 6839049501 | Rhythm | the varying speed, loudness, pitch, elevation, intensity, and expressiveness of speech or poetry | 66 | |
| 6839049502 | Satire | an attack on or criticism of any stupidity or vice in the form of scathing humor or critique | 67 | |
| 6839050918 | Scansion | the act of scanning a poem to determine its meter | 68 | |
| 6839050919 | Sestet | six lines that rhyme with a varying pattern such as CDECDE or CDCCDC | 69 | |
| 6891903148 | Soliloquy | a monologue spoken by an actor at a point in a play when the character believes to be alone | 70 | |
| 6891903149 | Sonnet | a lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to pattern | 71 | |
| 6891903150 | Spondee | a metrical foot consisting of two successive strong beats | 72 | |
| 6891903721 | Stanza | an arrangement of lines of verse in a pattern usually repeated throughout the poem | 73 | |
| 6891903722 | Stress | the emphasis, length and loudness that mark on syllable as more pronounced than another | 74 | |
| 6891903723 | Style | the author's words and the characteristic way that writer uses language to achieve certain effects | 75 | |
| 6891904603 | Subplot | a minor or subordinate secondary plot | 76 | |
| 6891904604 | Symbol | a word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level | 77 | |
| 6891904605 | Symbolism | the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities | 78 | |
| 6891905200 | Syntax | the standard word order and sentence structure of a language | 79 | |
| 6942972314 | End rhyme | rhyme in which the last word at the end of each verse is the word that rhymes | 80 | |
| 6942977293 | Theme | a central idea or statement that unifies and controls an entire literary work | 81 | |
| 6942977294 | Tone | the means of creating a relationship or conveying an attitude or mood | 82 | |
| 6942978448 | Trochee | a two-syllable unit or foot of poetry consisting of a heavy stress followed by light stresses | 83 | |
| 6942980001 | Verse | a line of metrical writing, a stanza, or composition written in meter | 84 |
