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The total experience communicated by a poem

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Total meaning

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Exaggeration is used in the service of truth (hyperbole)

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Overstatement

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Someone absent or dead or nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present

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Apostrophe

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A narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface

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Allegory

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Saying less than one means

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Understatement

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The part of a poem’s total meaning that can be deprecated out and expressed through paraphrase

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Prose meaning

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A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory

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Paradox

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The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words

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Assonance

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A kind of literature the ridicules human filly with the purpose if bringing about reform

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Satire

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Metrical language

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Verse

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The internal organization of content

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Structure

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Any wavelength recurrence of motion or sound

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Rhythm

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The process of measuring metrical verse

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Scansion

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The repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in important or importantly positioned words

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Rhyme

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The basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of verse. (One accented syllable and one or two I accented syllables

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Foot

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A sonnet with parallel rhyme scheme, three coordinate quatrains, and a couplet. Sometimes has octave and sestet

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English sonnet

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The form taken by a poem written with same number if lines and other characteristics

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Stanzaic form

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A fixed form of fourteen lines, normally iambic pentameter, with one or two main types of rhyme schemes

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Sonnet

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A sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rhymes

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Italian sonnet

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A poem of serious reflection. A lament for the dead

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Elegy

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a poem of ten or thirteen lines with only two rhymes throughout and with the opening words used twice as a refrain.

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Rondeau

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A short quotation

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Epigraph

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Four line stanza

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Quatrain

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A six line stanza

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Sestet

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Eight line stanza
Octave
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Blank verse
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A speech pause occurring in the line
Caesura
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A smooth pleasant-sounding choice and arrangement
Euphony
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An ingenuous metaphor
Conceit
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Rhymes that occur at the ends of lines
End rhymes
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A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation
End stopped line
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A rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel is in either the second or third last syllable of the words involved
Feminine rhyme
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A rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel sound is in the final syllable of the words involved
Masculine
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A humorous five line poem with a rhyme scheme
Limerick
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in which a line is repeated in a changed context or with minor changes in the repeated part
Incremental refrain
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a part-song for several voices, especially one of the Renaissance period, typically unaccompanied and arranged in elaborate counterpoint
Madrigal
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Usually a short composition having the intentions of poetry
Prose poem
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Quality in a work that elicits or seeks to elicit tears through oversimplification or falsification of reality
Sentimentally
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The basic definition of a word
Denotation
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A situation or use of language involving some kind of incongruity
Irony
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Literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm
Poetry
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A kind of fiction that pictures creatures or events that go beyond boundaries of reality
Fantasy
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The representation through language of sense of experience
Imagery
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Language that cannot be taken literally or only literally
Figurative language
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What a word suggests beyond its basic dictionary definition
Connotation
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A repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines normally at some fixed position
Refrain
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A group of line whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout a poem
Stanza
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The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds
Consonance
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written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.
Prose
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The measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry
Meter
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A word whose sound by an obscure process suggests it's meaning
Phonetic poetry
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A form of poem in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage or tradition
Fixed form
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A speech in which a character alone on the stage addresses him it herself
Soliloquy
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Poetry using artificially eloquent language
Rhetorical poetry
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Poetry having a primary purpose to teach or preach
Didactic poetry
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a lyric poem, typically one in the form of an address to a particular subject, written in varied or irregular metre.
Ode
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a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line ends in six different sequences.
Sestina
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A nineteen-line fixed from consisting of five tercets rhymed and a concluding quatrain with lines 1 and 3 are refrains in an alternating pattern through line 15 and repeated as line 18 and 19
Villanelle
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A fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form
Ballad
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Open form of poetry. Follows the rhythm of natural speech
Free verse
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A term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes
Approximate rhyme
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a rhymed couplet that forms a complete syntactic unit
Closed couplet
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Two successive lines, usually in the same meter linked by rhyme
Couplet
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A rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme words occurs within the line
Internal rhyme
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A line which has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the succeeding line
Run-on line
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a poem of eight lines, typically of eight syllables each, rhyming abaaabab and so structured that the first line recurs as the fourth and seventh and the second as the eighth.
Triolet
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A pair of iambic pentameters
Heroic couplet
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Into the middle of a narrative
In medias res
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A hymn or poem
Psalm

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