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  1. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  2. assonance
    the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
  3. consonance
    a harmonious state of things and of their properties
  4. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  5. ballad
    a narrative poem of popular origin
  6. blank verse
    unrhymed poetry, usually in iambic pentameter
  7. mood
    a characteristic state of feeling
  8. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  9. anthropomorphic
    suggesting human features for animals or inanimate things
  10. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  11. free verse
    poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
  12. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
  13. meter
    a basic unit of length (approximately 1.094 yards)
  14. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  15. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  16. motif
    a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
  17. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  18. theme
    the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
  19. quatrain
    a stanza of four lines
  20. limerick
    a humorous rhymed verse form of five lines
  21. haiku
    an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
  22. ode
    a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
  23. elegy
    a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
  24. sonnet
    a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
  25. accent
    special importance or significance
  26. anapest
    two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable
  27. cacophony
    loud confusing disagreeable sounds
  28. caesura
    a break or pause in the middle of a verse line
  29. couplet
    a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
  30. double rhyme
    a two-syllable rhyme
  31. end-rhymed
    rhymed on the terminal syllables of the verses
  32. English sonnet
    a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg
  33. euphony
    any pleasing and harmonious sounds
  34. foot
    a group of syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
  35. hamartia
    the character flaw or error of a tragic hero
  36. hexameter
    a verse line having six metrical feet
  37. internal rhyme
    a rhyme between words in the same line
  38. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
  39. Italian sonnet
    a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd
  40. denotation
    the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
  41. pattern
    a repeated design, structure, or arrangement
  42. pentameter
    a verse line having five metrical feet
  43. lyric poem
    a short poem of songlike quality
  44. chasm
    a deep opening in the earth's surface
  45. seething
    in constant agitation
  46. meander
    move or cause to move in a winding or curving course
  47. loiter
    linger, remain, or wait around for no apparent reason
  48. waning
    a gradual decrease in magnitude or extent
  49. sojourn
    a temporary stay
  50. munificent
    given or giving freely, generously, or without restriction
  51. enlightenment
    education that results in the spread of knowledge
  52. albatross
    something that hinders or handicaps
  53. Napoleonic
    of or relating to or like Napoleon Bonaparte
  54. abolitionist
    a reformer who favors putting an end to slavery
  55. spontaneous
    said or done without having been planned in advance
  56. classicism
    a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms
  57. neoclassicism
    revival of antiquity art, literature, architecture, or music
  58. diction
    the manner in which something is expressed in words
  59. pastoral
    devoted to raising sheep or cattle
  60. juxtaposition
    the act of positioning close together
  61. gothic
    characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque
  62. refrain
    part of a song or poem that recurs at regular intervals
  63. primitive
    characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
  64. dactyl
    metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables
  65. prosody
    the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
  66. imagery
    the ability to form mental pictures of things or events
  67. apostrophe
    an address to an absent or imaginary person
  68. terza rima
    a verse form with tercets having an interlaced rhyme scheme
  69. enjambment
    continuation from one line of verse into the next line
  70. didactic
    instructive, especially excessively
  71. cadence
    the accent in a metrical foot of verse
  72. trochee
    a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables
  73. synecdoche
    using part of something to refer to the whole thing
  74. heroic couplet
    a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style
  75. scansion
    analysis of verse into metrical patterns
  76. litotes
    understatement for rhetorical effect
  77. metaphysical
    pertaining to the philosophical study of being and knowing
  78. sestet
    a group of six lines of verse
  79. monologue
    a dramatic speech by a single actor
  80. soliloquy
    speech you make to yourself
  81. prose
    ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
  82. narrative
    an account that tells the particulars of an act or event
  83. restoration
    returning something or someone to a satisfactory state
Created on Sun Mar 17 13:04:45 EDT 2013 (updated Sun Mar 17 13:05:12 EDT 2013)

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