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Allusion

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Brief reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of significance

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Ambiguity

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Word, statement, or situation with two possible meanings

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Anapest

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Metrical foot in a line of a poem that contains 3 syllables where the first two syllables are short and unstressed followed by a third syllable that is long and unstressed

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Antithesis

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Two terms, phrases, or ideas that contrast or have opposite meanings (love and hate)

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Approximate rhyme/slant rhyme

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Same overall sound but different letters

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming with phrases

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Aubade

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Song or poem about lovers separating at dawn

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Audience

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Who the poem is directed towards

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Ballad

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Narrative poem typically arranged in quadrains

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Blank verse

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Poem with no rhyme

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Alliteration

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Repetition of speech sound in a sequence of words that are close to each other

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Cacophony

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Mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds

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Caesura

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Rhythmical pause in the middle of a line of poetry

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Carpe diem

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Seize the day

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Conceit

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Metaphor that compares two things in a clever way

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Connotation

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Meaning implied that is different than the explicit meaning

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Consonance

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Repetitive sound produced by consonants in close proximity

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Couplet

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Pair of lines with the same meter

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Dactyl

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Long syllable followed by two shirt syllables

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Denigration

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Literal meaning of a word

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Diction

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Word choice

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Dimeter

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Line of poetry with two metrical feet

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Dramatic monologue

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A single persons speech

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Dramatic situation

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Underlying plot line to place characters in conflict

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Elegy
Sad poem written for a dead person
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End rhyme
Lines ending with the same sound
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End-stopped rhyme
Line of poetry ends with punctuation
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English sonnet/Shakespearean
14 line poem with several rhyme schemes
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Enjambment
Incomplete syntax at the end of a sentence
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Epithet
Adjective or phrase used to express the characteristic of a person or thing
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Euphony
Smooth, pleasant sounding choice of words
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Exact rhyme
Repetition of same stressed vowel sounds
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Extended metaphor
Comparison extended throughout several sentences
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Feminine rhyme
A rhyme that matches two or more syllables
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Foot
Contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable
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Free verse
Poetry free from regular meter or rhyme
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Hexameter
Metrical line of six feet, most often dactylic, and is Greek or Latin
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Hyperbole
A figure of speech that exaggerates
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Iambic
Unaccented and shirt syllable followed by a long accented syllable
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Implied metaphor
Compare two thins without mentioning them
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Internal rhyme
Line where middle and end words rhyme
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Irony
Situation or use of language involving words used in a way different from their intended meaning
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Italian/Petrarchan sonnet
14 lines that are divided into two parts
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Litotes
Employs an understatement by using double negatives
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Lyric poem
Has musical rhythm, often romantic
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Masculine rhyme
Rhyme is in the stressed final syllable of the word
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Metaphysical poetry
Concerned with the whole experience of man
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Meter
Unit of rhythm
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Metonymy
A word or phrase that stands for another word
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Narrative poem
Tells a story
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Octave
Consists of 8 lines of iambic pentameter
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Ode
Lyrical poetry expressing emotion and addressing someone
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Oxymoron
Two opposites are joined to create an effect
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Paradox
Statement that appears to be self contradictory
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Parallelism
Sentences that are grammatically similar or of identical structure
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Pentameter
A line that has 5 strong metrical feet or beats
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Personification
Nonhuman thing is given human qualities
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Phonetic intensives
A word that suggests it's meaning
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Quatrain
Verse or small poem consisting of 4 lines
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Rhetorical question
Question that is asked without expecting an answer
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Rhyme scheme
Pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem
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Run on line
Incomplete syntax
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Scansion
Process of marking the stresses in a poem to understand the meter
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Sestet
Name of the second division of an Italian sonnet
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Simile
Comparison using like or as
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Slant rhyme
Stressed syllables of ending consonants match but vowel doesn't
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Sonnet
14 lines, each line has 10 syllables and is written in iambic pentameter
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Speaker
Voice of the poem
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Spondee/spondaic
Beat of a line that contains two accented syllables (stressed-stressed)
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Stanza
Grouped set of lines within a poem set off from other stanzas
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Synecdoche
Part of something that represents a whole
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Syntax
Word order and the way it works with grammatical structure
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Tercet
Three lined stanza of pen that often contains a rhyme
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Theme
Main idea or message
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Tone
Authors attitude towards the subject
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Trimester
Verse written in lines of 3 metrical feet
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Trochee/trochaic
Metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one
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Villanelle
19 line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain
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Volta
Turn of thought or argument
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Zuegma
Using one word to link two thoughts or modify two words

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