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| 12983849504 | Metonymy | :the use of linked terms to stand in for an object or concept; substituting the name of an object to another closely associated to it Ex: The pen is mightier than the sword | 0 | |
| 12983882554 | Rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyme in a poem (ex. ABAB) | 1 | |
| 12983899567 | Octave | an eight-line stanza. Most commonly, octave refers to the first division of an Italian sonnet. | 2 | |
| 12983913430 | Sestet | the last six lines of a sonnet | 3 | |
| 12983921353 | Blank Verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 4 | |
| 12983930901 | lyric poem | a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker. Usually brief and compressed | 5 | |
| 12983946699 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Ex1. Becky's beagle barked and bayed, becoming bothersome for Billy EX2.Can you keep the cat from clawing the couch? It's creating chaos | 6 | |
| 12984068317 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. Ex 1. Love is like an oil change EX 2. The broken heart is a damaged china pot. | 7 | |
| 12984095196 | Enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. EX. Autumn showing off colors slowly Letting the splendid colors Flow softly to earth below. | 8 | |
| 12984133431 | 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. Ex. Osman the Great. How great he is. Isn't he just great. ("O"sman = "Ode" ) | 9 | |
| 12984238298 | elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. | 10 | |
| 12984261147 | dramatic monologue | when a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience | 11 | |
| 12984298404 | Couplet | two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. Ex: She was a little tense (A) The notice made no sense (A) I saw a little hermit crab (B) His coloring was oh so drab (B) It's hard to see the butterfly (C) Because he flies across the sky (C) | 12 | |
| 12984413317 | stream of consciousness | a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind. Ex. I am alone I want to be the two of us I want the join I come out of blue water after the bottoms of my feet swim away from me I come up I need to find a place to be | 13 | |
| 12984498657 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa Ex. All hands on deck | 14 | |
| 12984516502 | Ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas Ex. Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying 'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide. | 15 | |
| 12984532593 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity EX. Penitence Reticence | 16 |
