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Stanza

Groups of lines (metrical pattern and rhyme often repeated)

Consonance

Repetition of final consonant sound

Couplet

Two successive lines linked by rhyme

Assonance

Repetition of the vowel sound of accented syllables

Quatrain

Four lined stanza, often marked by rhyme scheme

Onomatopoeia

Use of words that mimic meaning in sound

Meter

Regularized rhythm; accents appear at equal intervals

Sonnet

Fixed form 14-line poem often in iambic pentameter

Rhythm

Any wavelike recurrence of motion/sound

Villanelle

Fixed form 19-line poem of 5 tercets (three-line stanzas), 1 quatrain

Free Verse

Verse with no fixed metrical or rhyme pattern

Blank Verse

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

Euphony

Smooth, pleasant sounding word choice

Cacophony

Harsh, unpleasant sounding word choice

Diction

Word choice

Imagery

Representation through language of sense

Caesura

Pause in a line by a mark of punctuation

Tone

Writer/speaker’s attitude toward the subject

Run on line (Enjambment)

Line with no natural pause at its end

Synecdoche

Figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole

Irony

Situation/language of incongruity/discrepancy

Paradox

Statement/situation of contradictory elementss

Iamb

Metrical foot of unaccented followed by accented

Trochee

Metrical foot of accented followed by unaccented

Alliteration

Repetition of the initial consonant sound