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| a group of two or more syllables in which one syllable has the major stress, forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm | |
| the repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same | |
| a writer's choice of words, phrases, etc. which help create meaning | |
| a type of brief poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker | |
| a form of metaphor in which human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things | |
| a light, humorous style of fixed form poetry | |
| a three-line stanza | |
| when one line of poetry continues into the next line; a run-on line | |
| a simple narrative poem of folk origin | |
| a grouping of lines in poetry that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme | |
| the ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns | |
| a poem consisting of thirty-six lines divided into six sestets and a three-line concluding stanza called an envoy | |
| a word, phrase, or figure of speech that addresses the senses | |
| the repetition of the same consonant sounds in a sequence of words | |
| a symbolic narrative | |
| the dictionary meaning of a word | |
| a comparison between two unlike things | |
| the author's implicit attitude toward the reader or the people, places, and events in a work | |
| two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter | |
| the emphasis, or accent, given a syllable in pronunciation | |
| 'good sound'; language that is smooth and pleasant to the ear | |
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| a lengthy lyric poem that often expresses lofty emotions in a dignified style | |
| an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally | |
| the emphasis on a syllable in pronunciation | |
| poetic lines composed in a measured rhythmical pattern | |
| the central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work | |
| a reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or in literature | |
| a mournful lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead | |
| free verse; a type of poetry that doesn't conform to established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza | |
| the use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes; ex: buzz, rattle | |
| a four-line stanza | |
| an unintentional poem discovered in a nonpoetic context | |
| a fixed form of lyric poetry that consists of fourteen lines, usually written in iambic pentameter | |
| a class or category | |
| a play on words | |
| eye, end, internal, masculine, feminine, exact, near | |
| language that is discordant and difficult to pronounce | |
| ways of using words that deviate from the literal, denotative meaning | |
| something used for or regarded as representing something else | |
| a word or phrase made from the letters of another word or phrase | |
| the voice of the person telling the story | |
| the secondary meaning of a word developed through associational usage | |
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| the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning | |
| a recurring rhythmic pattern of stresses in a poem | |
| first-person, third-person omniscient, third-person obejective (limited) | |
| rude, crude, or poor (describing poetry) | |
| a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using words such as 'like' and 'as' | |
| an idea or expression that has become tired and trite from overuse | |
| a figure of speech that says less than is intended | |
| a type of fixed form poetry consisting of nineteen lines and divided into five tercets and a concluding quatrain | |
| informal diction | |
| a poetic stanza of eight lines | |
| a brief, pointed, and witty poem that usually makes a satiric or humorous point | |
| a tercet in which all three lines rhyme | |
| poetry designed to teach a lesson | |
| poems characterized by their nonconformity to established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza | |
| a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth | |
| a stanza consisting of exactly six lines | |
| a poem that may be categorized by the pattern of its lines, meter, rhythm, or stanzas | |
| a type of open form poetry in which the poet arranges the lines of the poem so as to create a particular shape | |
| a pause within a line of poetry | |
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