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Couplet: In poetry, a pair of lines with rhyming end words.
Quatrain: a stanza of four lines
Cinquain: A five line poetic form.
Octave: A stanza composed of 8 lines
End-Stopped: When there is a break at the end of a line, denoted by a comma, period, semicolon, or other punctuation mark
Enjambment: A technique in poetry whereby a sentence is carried over to the next line without pause.
Caesura: A pause or interruption in a poem.
Syllable: a single unit of sound in a word, consisting of a vowel sound with or without surrounding consonants.
Foot: a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables
Meter: The rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line.
Iamb: A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
Trochee: A metrical foot in verse consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
Spondee: A word or metrical foot of two syllables, both stressed.
Pentameter: A line in a poem having five metrical feet.
Tetrameter: A line in a poem having four metrical feet.
Rhyme: The correspondence of sounds between different words
End rhyme: Rhymes at the end of a line
Internal Rhyme: The rhyming of two words within the same line of verse
Alliteration: The repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other
Assonance: The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds
Consonance: The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels as in assonance.
Onomatopoeia: The property of a word of sounding like what it represents.
Metaphor: A figure of speech that implies a comparison between two unlikely things.
Simile: A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, in the case of English generally using like or as.
Personification: The giving of human qualities to an animal,object or abstract idea
Hyperbole: Extreme exaggeration or overstatement; especially as a literary or rhetorical device.
Euphemism: The use of a word or phrase to replace another with one that is considered less offensive or less vulgar than the word or phrase it replaces.
Pun: A joke or type of wordplay in which similar senses or sounds of two words or phrases, or different senses of the same word, are deliberately confused.
Oxymoron: A figure of speech in which two words with opposing meanings are used together intentionally for effect.
Anaphora: The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of phrases, sentences, or verses, used for emphasis.
Allusion: An indirect reference; a hint; a reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned.
Sonnet: a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme
Ode: Formal, often ceremonious lyric
poem that addresses (and often celebrates) a person, place, thing, or idea.
Haiku: A Japanese poem of a specific form, consisting of three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.
Villanelle: a type of poetry, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes.
Blank Verse: A poetic form with regular meter, particularly iambic pentameter, but no fixed rhyme scheme.
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