| 6074736433 | Doggerel | a term used for lines whose subject matter is trite and whose rhythm and sounds are monotonously heavy-handed | | 0 |
| 6074736434 | Paraphrase | a prose restatement of the central ideas of a poem in your own language | | 1 |
| 6074736435 | Speaker | the voice used by the author in the poem-often created by the author's actual self | | 2 |
| 6074736436 | Verse | a term used for lines composed in a measured rhythmical pattern | | 3 |
| 6074736437 | Anagrams | words made from the letters of other words, such as read and dare | | 4 |
| 6074736438 | Theme | a central idea or meaning | | 5 |
| 6074736439 | Lyric | a brief poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker | | 6 |
| 6074736440 | Narrative Poem | a poem that tells a story | | 7 |
| 6074736441 | Diction | choice of words | | 8 |
| 6074736442 | Poetic Diction | the use of elevated language rather than ordinary language | | 9 |
| 6074736443 | Formal Diction | consists of a dignified, impersonal, and elevated use of language | | 10 |
| 6074736444 | Middle Diction | less formal level of diction | | 11 |
| 6074736445 | Informal Diction | colloquial, conversational manner | | 12 |
| 6074736446 | Dialect | form of informal diction | | 13 |
| 6074736447 | Jargon | a category of language defined by a trade or profession | | 14 |
| 6074736448 | Denotation | the literal, dictionary meaning of a word | | 15 |
| 6074736449 | Connotation | associations and implications that go beyond a word's literal meanings | | 16 |
| 6074736450 | Persona | a speaker created by the poet | | 17 |
| 6074736451 | Ambiguity | allows for two or more simultaneous interpretations of a word, phrase, action, or situation | | 18 |
| 6074736452 | Syntax | the ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns | | 19 |
| 6074736453 | Tone | the writer's attitude toward the subject, the mood created by all of the elements in the poem | | 20 |
| 6074736454 | Dramatic Monologue | a type of poem in which a character -the speaker- addresses a silent audience in such a way as to reveal unintentional some aspect of his or her temperament or personality | | 21 |
| 6074736455 | Image | language that addresses the senses | | 22 |
| 6074736456 | Figures of Speech | broadly defined as a way of saying one thing in terms of something else | | 23 |
| 6074736457 | Simile | makes an explicit comparison between two things by using words such as like, as, than, appears, or seems | | 24 |
| 6074736458 | Metaphor | makes a comparison between two unlike things (no like or as) | | 25 |
| 6074736459 | Implied Metaphor | does not explicitly identify the comparison-hints at it | | 26 |
| 6074736460 | Extended Metaphor | extended comparisons in which part or all of the poem consists of a series of related metaphors (controlling metaphors) | | 27 |
| 6074736461 | Pun | a play on words that relies on a word having more than one meaning or sounding like another word | | 28 |
| 6074736462 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which part of something is used to signify the whole | | 29 |
| 6074736463 | Metonymy | something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it | | 30 |
| 6074736464 | Personification | the attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman things | | 31 |
| 6074736465 | Apostrophe | an address to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend | | 32 |
| 6074736466 | Hyperbole | an overstatement. adds emphasis without intending to be literally true | | 33 |
| 6074736467 | Understatement | says less than is intended | | 34 |
| 6074736468 | Paradox | a statement that initially appears to be self-contradictory, but that, on closer inspection, turns out to make sense | | 35 |
| 6074736469 | Oxymoron | a condensed form of paradox in which two contradictory words are used together | | 36 |
| 6074736470 | Symbol | something that represents something else | | 37 |
| 6074736471 | Conventional Symbol | something that is recognized by many people to represent certain ideas | | 38 |
| 6074736472 | Literary Symbol (Contextual) | something that goes beyond traditional, public meanings | | 39 |
| 6074736473 | Allegory | a narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning because it's events, actions, characters, settings, and objects represent specific abstractions or ideas | | 40 |
| 6074736474 | Didactic Poetry | designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religious lesson | | 41 |
| 6074736475 | Situational Irony | what happens is entirely different from what is expected | | 42 |
| 6074736476 | Verbal Irony | saying something different from what is meant | | 43 |
| 6074736477 | Satire | an example of the literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in an effort to expose or correct it | | 44 |
| 6074736478 | Dramatic Irony | used when a writer allows a reader to know more about a situation than a character does | | 45 |
| 6074736479 | Cosmic Irony | when a writer uses God, destiny, or fate to dash the hopes and expectations of a character or humankind in general | | 46 |
| 6074736480 | Ballad | a form of poetry that alternates lines of four and three beats, often in quatrains, rhymed abab, and often telling a story | | 47 |
| 6074736481 | Literary Ballad | a more complex and sophisticated 19th century reflection of the original ballad traditions that developed in the 15th century and earlier | | 48 |
| 6074736482 | Onomatopoeia | the use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes | | 49 |
| 6074736483 | Alliteration | the depiction of the same consonant sounds at the beginnings of nearby words ("luscious lemons") | | 50 |
| 6074736484 | Assonance | the repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby words ("asleep under a tree") | | 51 |
| 6074736485 | Euphony | lines that are musically pleasant to the ear and smooth | | 52 |
| 6074736486 | Cacophony | lines that are discordant and difficult to pronounce ("never my numb plunker fumbles") | | 53 |
| 6074736487 | Rhyme | consists of two or more words or phrases that repeat the same sounds | | 54 |
| 6074736488 | Eye Rhyme | rhyme in which the spellings are similar, but the pronunciations are different (brow and blow) | | 55 |
| 6074736489 | End Rhyme | rhyme that comes at the end of lines | | 56 |
| 6074736490 | Internal Rhyme | places at least one of the rhymed words within the line ("dividing and gliding and sliding") | | 57 |
| 6074736491 | Masculine Rhyme | the rhyming of single-syllable words | | 58 |
| 6074736492 | Feminine Rhyme | consists of a rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more rhymed unstressed syllables (butter, clutter; gratitude, attitude) | | 59 |
| 6074736493 | Exact Rhymes | share the same stressed vowel sounds as well as any sounds that follow the vowel | | 60 |
| 6074736494 | Slant Rhyme (Off Rhyme/Near Rhyme/Approximate Rhyme) | the sounds are almost but not exactly alike | | 61 |
| 6074736495 | Consonance | an identical consonant sound preceded by a different vowel sound (home and same; worth and breath) | | 62 |
| 6074736496 | Stress (accent) | places more emphasis on one syllable than on another | | 63 |
| 6074736497 | Meter | the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse | | 64 |
| 6074736498 | Prosody | all the metrical elements in a poem | | 65 |
| 6074736499 | Scansion | consists of measuring the stresses in a line to determine its metrical pattern | | 66 |
| 6074736500 | Foot | the metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured | | 67 |
| 6074736501 | Rising Meters | move from unstressed to stressed sounds | | 68 |
| 6074736502 | Falling Meters | move from stressed to unstressed sounds | | 69 |
| 6074736503 | Line | measured by the number of feet it contains ("If she | would write | a note | " contains 3 feet) | | 70 |
| 6074736504 | Iambic Pentameter | contains five feet | | 71 |
| 6074736505 | Blank Verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | | 72 |
| 6074736506 | spondee | a two-syllable foot in which both syllables are stressed | | 73 |
| 6074736507 | Masculine Ending | a line that ends with a stressed syllable | | 74 |
| 6074736508 | Feminine Ending | a line that ends with an extra unstressed syllable | | 75 |
| 6074736509 | Caesura | a pause within a line (indicated with "||") | | 76 |
| 6074736510 | End-stopped Line | when a line has a pause at its end | | 77 |
| 6074736511 | Run-on Line | a line that ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning | | 78 |
| 6074736512 | Enjambment | running over from one line to another | | 79 |
| 6074736513 | Form | overall structure or shape of a poem | | 80 |
| 6074736514 | Fixed Form | a poem that can be categorized by the patterns of its lines, meter, rhymes, and stanzas | | 81 |
| 6074736515 | Free Verse (Open Form) | poems that do not conform to established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza | | 82 |
| 6074736516 | Stanza | consists of grouping of lines, set off by a space, that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme | | 83 |
| 6074736517 | Rhyme Scheme | the pattern of end rhymes | | 84 |
| 6074736518 | Couplet | consists of two lines that usually rhyme and have the same meter | | 85 |
| 6074736519 | Heroic Couplet | consists of rhymes in iambic pentameter | | 86 |
| 6074736520 | Tercet | a three-line stanza | | 87 |
| 6074736521 | Triplet | when all three lines in a tercet rhyme | | 88 |
| 6074736522 | Terza Rima | consists of an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme: aba, bcb, cdc, ded, and so on | | 89 |
| 6074736523 | Quatrain | a four-line stanza | | 90 |
| 6074736524 | Ballad Stanza | consists of alternating eight- and six-syllable lines | | 91 |
| 6074736525 | Sonnet | consists of 14 lines, usually written in iambic pentameter | | 92 |
| 6074736526 | Italian Sonnet (Petrarchan Sonnet) | divides into two parts. The first 8 lines (octave) typically rhyme abbaabba. The final 6 (sestet) can rhyme cdecde, cdcdcd, and cdccdc (these are most common) | | 93 |
| 6074736527 | English Sonnet (Shakespearean Sonnet) | organized into 3 quatrains and a couplet, and typically rhyme abab cdcd efef gg | | 94 |
| 6074736528 | Villanelle | a fixed form consisting of 19 lines of any length divided into 6 stanzas: five tercets and a concluding quatrain | | 95 |
| 6074736529 | Sestina | consists of 39 lines of any length divided into 6 six-line stanzas and a three-line concluding stanza called an envoy. usually does not rhyme | | 96 |
| 6074736530 | Limerick | always light and numerous. consists of 5 predominantly anapestic lines rhyming aabba | | 97 |
| 6074736531 | Envoy | three-line concluding stanza | | 98 |
| 6074736532 | Haiku | usually described as consisting of 17 syllables organized into three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables | | 99 |
| 6074736533 | Elegy | used to describe a lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead | | 100 |
| 6074736534 | Ode | characterized by a serious topic and formal tone, but no prescribed formal pattern describes all odes | | 101 |
| 6074736535 | Parody | a humorous imitation of another, usually serious, work | | 102 |
| 6074736536 | Picture Poems | poems with lines arranged into particular shapes | | 103 |
| 6074736537 | Epic Poem | a long, narrative poem that is usually about heroic deeds and events that are significant to the culture of the poet. | | 104 |
| 6074736538 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | | 105 |
| 6074736539 | Controlling Metaphor | a symbolic story, where the whole poem may be a metaphor for something else; motif | | 106 |
| 6074736540 | Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. | | 107 |
| 6074736541 | Rhythm | a literary device which demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables particularly in verse form. | | 108 |
| 6074736542 | Iamb | a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable. | | 109 |
| 6074736543 | Trochee | a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable. | | 110 |
| 6074736544 | Sestet | a poem or stanza of six lines | | 111 |
| 6074736545 | Octave | a poem or stanza of eight lines | | 112 |
| 6074736546 | Epigram | a short poem, especially a satirical one, having a witty or ingenious ending. | | 113 |
| 6074736547 | Free Verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter. | | 114 |
