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| 9886204352 | lyric | subjective, reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme and meter, which reveals the poet's thoughts and feelings to create a single, unique impression. There are three movements of spirit: aspiration, celebration, and lamentations | 0 | |
| 9886214818 | narrative | non-dramatic, objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter, which relates a story or narrative. There are three movements of spirit in narrative poetry: epic, tragic, and comic | 1 | |
| 9886226980 | Sonnet | a rigid 14-line verse form, with variable structure and rhyme-scheme according to type: Shakespearean or Italian | 2 | |
| 9886235901 | Ode | elaborate lyric verse which deals seriously with dignified theme | 3 | |
| 9886241829 | blank verse | unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter without end rhyme | 4 | |
| 9886246964 | free verse | unrhymed lines that do not have a regular meter | 5 | |
| 9886253449 | epic | a long dignified narrative poem, which gives the account of a hero important to his nation or race | 6 | |
| 9886260499 | dramatic monologue | a lyric poem in which the speaker addresses himself to persons around him; his speech deals with a dramatic moment in his life and manifests his character | 7 | |
| 9886270856 | elegy | a poem of lament, meditating on the death of an individual | 8 | |
| 9886274009 | ballad | simple, narrative verse which tells a story to be sung or recited; the folk ballad is anonymously handed down, while the literary ballad has a single author | 9 | |
| 9886282745 | idyll | lyric poetry describing the life of the shepherd in pastoral, bucolic, idealistic terms | 10 | |
| 9886289721 | villanelle | french verse from strictly calculated to appear simple and spontaneous; five tercets and a final quatrain, rhyming aba aba aba aba aba abaa | 11 | |
| 9886299339 | light verse | general category of poetry written to entertain, such as lyric poetry, epigrams, and limericks | 12 | |
| 9886312271 | haiku | Japanese verse in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, often depicting a delicate image | 13 | |
| 9886318270 | limerick | humorous nonsense verse in five anapestic lines rhyming aabba, a-tetrameter b-trimeter | 14 | |
| 9886326647 | iambic | u/ | 15 | |
| 9886329102 | trochaic | /u | 16 | |
| 9886332070 | anapestic | uu/ | 17 | |
| 9886332071 | dactylic | /uu | 18 | |
| 9886334260 | spondaic | // | 19 | |
| 7517997244 | amphibrach | foot with unstressed, stressed and unstressed Chi-ca-go | 20 | |
| 7517990486 | metric foot | 1 ft = 2 beat Iambic u/ Trochaic /u Anapestic uu/ Dactylic /uu Spondaic // | 21 | |
| 7518001602 | amphimacer | a foot with stressed, unstressed, stressed at-ti-tude | 22 | |
| 7518006546 | catalectic | an extra unaccented syllable at the end of a line after the regular meter ends | 23 | |
| 7518011149 | caesura | a pause in the meter of rhythm of a line | 24 | |
| 7518014242 | enjambent | the running on of one line of poetry into another without grammatical break | 25 | |
| 7518017776 | rhyme | repetition of like sounds at regular intervals, employed in versification, writing of verse | 26 | |
| 7518028834 | end rhyme | rhyme occurring at the end of 2 or more lines of verse | 27 | |
| 7518032600 | internal rhyme | rhyme contained within a line of verse b/w 2 or more words | 28 | |
| 7518036881 | rhyme scheme | pattern of rhymes within a unit of verse, in analysis, each end rhyme sound is represented by a letter (abab) | 29 | |
| 7518042082 | masculine rhyme | occurs when the last syllable of a word rhymes with another word | 30 | |
| 7518046211 | feminine rhyme | occurs when the last two syllables of a word rhymes with another | 31 | |
| 7518051716 | triple rhyme | last 3 syllables of a word or line rhyme | 32 | |
| 7518054599 | half rhyme | (slant, approximate, near, or off-rhyme) imperfect, approximate, close rhyme sea, beaks | 33 | |
| 7518061757 | exact rhyme | (true/perfect rhyme) sounds following the vowel are exactly the same red/bread | 34 | |
| 7518066061 | sight (eye) rhyme | spelling looks alike but they are pronounced differently | 35 | |
| 7518069327 | alliteration | repetition at close intervals, of beginning sounds in 2 or more words in a line of verse | 36 | |
| 7518073478 | assonance | repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds in 2 or more words | 37 | |
| 7518079561 | cacophony | the use of inharmonious (harsh, rough, unmusical) sounds in close conjunction | 38 | |
| 7518083349 | consonance | repetition of 2 or more consonant sounds within a line to produce a harmonious effect | 39 | |
| 7518089750 | euphony | use of compatible, harmonious sounds to produce a pleasing, melodious effect | 40 | |
| 7518096082 | onomatopoeia | use of a word to represent or imitate natural sounds | 41 | |
| 7518099677 | refrain | repetition of 1 or more phrases or lines at intervals | 42 | |
| 7518102616 | allusion | a reference to a mythological, literary or historical person, place, or thing that adds to or emphasizes a theme of work | 43 | |
| 7518110216 | antithesis | balancing or contrasting of one term against another | 44 | |
| 7518112204 | apostrophe | a form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present and the inanimate as if animate | 45 | |
| 7518116892 | conceit | very elaborate comparison between unlikely objects. multiple metaphors | 46 | |
| 7518120694 | hyperbole | (overstatement) a boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true | 47 | |
| 7518132281 | imagery | language that appeals to the senses (visual, auditory, gustatory, olfactory, tactile, kinesthetic) emotionally evocative | 48 | |
| 7518140432 | irony | discrepancy between appearance and reality VERBAL- what he says is different that what he means DRAMATIC- reader knows something the character does not SITUATIONAL- reality differs from anticipated or intended effect | 49 | |
| 7518153757 | litote | special form of understatement achieved by saying the opposite of what one means by making an affirmation by stating the fact in the negative double negative | 50 | |
| 7518160837 | metaphor | a comparison of generally dissimilar things without the use of "like" or "as" in order to show something new usually concrete & abstract comparisons | 51 | |
| 7518168771 | metonymy | substitution of a word naming an object for another word closely associated with it | 52 | |
| 7518173958 | oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of contradictory or incongruous terms into a single expression | 53 | |
| 7518180941 | paradox | the juxtaposition of a incongruous or conflicting ideas that reveal a truth or insight | 54 | |
| 7518186858 | personification | a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics | 55 | |
| 7518228854 | similie | a direct comparison of 2 unlike objects, using like or as | 56 | |
| 7518231301 | symbol | a word or image that signifies something other than what is literally represented | 57 | |
| 7518234720 | synecdoche | a kind of metaphor in which part of something represents the whole object or idea not a HAIR perished (hair=person) | 58 | |
| 7518242432 | inversion | (anastrophe) reversal of the natural/usual word order | 59 | |
| 9886347420 | tone | attitude of the speaker toward another character, a place, an idea, or a thing | 60 | |
| 9886351789 | theme | author's major idea or meaning; the purpose of the poem. Themes express the unity of human experience, and through poems we see that we are more alike as a human race than different | 61 | |
| 9886358920 | mood | related to tone. association with setting. the emotional quality of the setting | 62 | |
| 9886363267 | dramatic situation | circumstances of the speaker | 63 | |
| 9886365374 | parallelism | the repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure, or that restate a similar idea | 64 | |
| 9886378784 | appositives | noun/noun phrase that renames a noun beside it Mr. Meyer, Zeus to some, | 65 | |
| 9886373746 | apposition | use of appositives to explain or modify | 66 | |
| 9886386303 | ellipsis | omission of a word or words that are implied by context | 67 | |
| 9886389078 | chiasmus | cross-wise (or mirror-image) arrangements of elements | 68 | |
| 9886394211 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses | 69 | |
| 9886397307 | antimetabole | repetition in reverse grammatical order eat to live, not live to eat | 70 | |
| 9886400253 | polysyndeton | deliberate use of many conjunctions I study physics and math and literature and spanish and history | 71 | |
| 9886412480 | repetition | repeated use of the same word or group of words at the beginning and/or ends of successive clauses within poetry | 72 |
