Poetry
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- metaphor
- comparison that does not use like or as
- trochaic
- stressed, unstressed
- synecdoche
- mentioning part of something to represent the whole
- dimeter
- two foot line
- hexameter
- six foot line
- simile
- comparison using like or as
- metonymy
- substitution of a word naming an object for another word closely associated with it
- heptameter
- seven foot line
- octometer
- eight foot line
- hyperbole
- an exaggeration for the sake of emphasis
- shakespearian
- ababcdcdefefgg
- tetrameter
- four foot line
- free verse
- consists of lines that do not have a regular meter and do not contain rhyme
- limerick
- aabba
- pentameter
- five foot line
- blank verse
- lines of iambic pentameter without an end rhyme
- monometer
- one foot line
- trimeter
- three foot line
- ballad
- abcb
- apostrophe
- adressing someone or something, usually not present, as though present
- Iambic
- unstressed, stressed
- dactylic
- stressed, unstressed, unstressed
- anapestic
- unstressed, unstressed, stressed
- litotes
- understatement achieved by saying the opposite
- personification
- giving human characteristics to an inanimate object
- spondaic
- stressed, stressed
- italian sonnet
- abbaabba cdecde or cdcdcd
- pyrrhic
- unstressed, unstressed
- rhymed verse
- ends with a rhyme and usually with regular meter