| A | B |
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| Accent | stress, syllable given more prominence in pronunciation |
| Allegory | narrative having second meaning |
| Alliteration | repetition on initial consonant sound |
| Allusion | reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history |
| Anapest | metrical foot containing two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable |
| Anapestic meter | meter with majority of feet are anapests |
| Apostrophe | figure of speech, something dead or non human is addressed as if present |
| Approximate rime | some sound correspondence but not perfect rimes |
| Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds of accented syllables |
| Aubade | poem about dawn; morning love song; poem about parting lovers at dawn |
| Ballad | short narrative poem written in songlike stanza form |
| Blank verse | unrimed iambic pentameter |
| cacophony | harsh, discordant, unpleasant sounding arrangement of sounds |
| caesure | grammatical pause |
| connontation | beyond basic definition |
| consonance | repetition of final consonant sounds |
| continuous forms | lines follow each other without formal grouping |
| couplet | two riming lines |
| dactyl | metrical foot of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented ones |
| dactylic meter | meter with majority of datyl feet |
| denotation | basic definition |
| didactic poetry | primary purpose to teach or preach |
| dimeter | metrical line of two feet |
| dipodic foot | basic foot of dipodic verse consisting of un unaccented syllable, lightly accented syllable, unaccented syllable, and heavily accented syllable |
| dipodic verse | merter with perceptible alternation between light and heavy stresses |
| Double rime | repeated vowel is in second last syllable of words involved |
| Dramatic framework | characters express theme |
| duple meter | majority of feet contain two syllables, ex. iambic |
| end rime | rimes at ends of lines |
