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Enjambment

Front

A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.

Back

memoir

Front

an autobiography; personal journal

Back

Assonance

Front

Repetition of vowel sounds

Back

epigram

Front

a short poem or verse that seeks to ridicule a thought or event, usually with witticism or sarcasm

Back

Limerick

Front

a short humorous poem composed of five lines that usually has the rhyme scheme aabba, created by two rhyming couplets followed by fifth lines that rhymes with the first couplet. a limerick typically has a sin song rhythm

Back

anecdote

Front

A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event.

Back

foot

Front

unit of meter

Back

Extened Metaphor

Front

a figure of speech that compares two essentially unlike thinking in great length

Back

epiphany

Front

A moment of sudden revelation or insight

Back

blank verse

Front

unrhymed iambic pentameter

Back

Idiom

Front

a phrase or expression that means something different from what the words actually say

Back

Analogy

Front

A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way

Back

Hyperbole

Front

A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.

Back

Foil

Front

A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story.

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heroic couplet

Front

a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style

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epitaph

Front

a short poem or verse written in memory of someone

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elegy

Front

a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

Back

Allergory

Front

Story in which characters, things, or actions represent or lead to a strong moral or lesson

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Couplet

Front

A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem.

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