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Couplet

________: Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme.

Anaphora

________: a rhetorical device that features the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences, phrases, or clauses.

Satire

________: A kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the ostensible purpose of brining about reform or of keeping others from falling into similar folly or vice.

Connotation

________: What a word suggests beyond its basic definition; a words overtones.

Personification

________: A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept.

Onomatopoeia

________: The use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound (for example, boom, click, plop.

Synecdoche

________: A figure of speech in which the part is used for the whole.

Antithesis

________: a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as "hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins ..

Irony

________: A situation, or a use of language, involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy.

Apostrophe

________: A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply.

Scansion

________: The process of measuring metrical verse, that is, of marking accented and unaccented syllables, dividing the lines into feet, identifying the metrical pattern, and noting significant variations from that pattern.

Alliteration

________: the repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, map- moon; kill, code)

Oxymoron

________: A compact paradox in which two successive words seemingly contradict each other.

Narrative poetry

________- a poem that tells a story.

Understatement

________: A figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less for than the occasion warrants.

Parallelism

________: A verbal arrangement in which elements of equal weight within phrases, sentences, or paragraphs are expressed in a similar grammatical order and structure.

Metonymy

________: A figure of speech in which the something closely related is used for the thing actually meant, as in commonly used phrases such as "The White House announced today… "(the name of the building is substituted for the president or the staff members who issued the announcement), or Wall Street is in a panic.

Tone

________: The writers or speakers attitude toward the subject, the audience, or herself or himself; the emotional coloring of a work.

Ballad

________: A form of narrative verse, either poetic or musical, typically consisting of four- line stanzas.

Simile

________: A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike.

Stanza

________: A group of lines whose metrical pattern (and usually rhyme scheme as well) is repeated throughout the poem.

levels of usage

There are at least four ________ for words: the formal, the informal, the colloquial, and the slang.

Dactyl

________: A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables (for example, merrily)

syntactic unit

End- stopped line: a feature in poetry in which the ________ (phrase, clause, or sentence) corresponds in length to the line.

Trochee

________: A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable (for example, barter)

Sarcasm

________: Bitter or cutting speech; speech intended by its speaker to give pain to the person addressed.

Denotation

________: The basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word.

Italian

________ or Petrarchan sonnet: A sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rhymes, such as cdcdcd or cdecde.

Anapest

________: A metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable (for example, understand)

Spondee

________: A metrical foot consisting of two syllables equally or almost equally accented.

Iamb

________: A metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable (for example, rehearse)

Assonance

________: The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, hat- ran- amber; vein- made)

Sonnet

________: A fixed form of fourteen lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme conforming to one of two main types- the Italian, or the English.

Hyperbole

________: extravagant and obviously exaggerated language or imagery.

Metaphor

________: A figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two things that are essentially unlike.

Diction

________: the use of words in oral or written discourse (verbal expression)

Imagery

________: The representation through language of sense experience.

measurement of metrical verse

Foot: The basic unit used in scansion or ________.

Symbol

________: A figure of speech in which something (object, person, situation, or action) means more than what it is.

Paraphrase

________: A restatement of the content of a poem designed to make its prose meaning as clear as possible.

Quatrain

________: Four- line stanza, or a four- line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme.

Paradox

________: A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements.

Verse

________: Metrical language, the opposite of prose.

Allusion

________: A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.

Hexameter

________: A metrical line containing six feet.

Tetrameter

________: A metrical line containing four feet.

Situational irony

________: Refers to circumstances that turn out to be the reverse of what is expected or considered appropriate.

Trimeter

________: A metrical line containing three feet.

Pentameter

________: A poetic line containing five metrical feet.