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| Ode | It is a complex, generally long lyric poem on a serious subject. |
| Sonnet | It is a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter that has one of several rhyme schemes. |
| Elegy | It is a poem that mourns the death of a person or laments something lost. |
| Apostrophe | it is a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something nonhuman as if it were present and capable of responding. |
| Octave | an eight-line stanza or poem or the first eight lines of an Italian, or Petrarchan, sonnet |
| Couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
| Sestet | a six-line stanza or poem or the last six lines of an Italian, or Petrarchan, sonnet |
| Quatrain | a four-line stanz or poem or a group of four lines unified by a rhyme scheme |
| Motif | in literature, a word, a character, an object, an image, a metaphor, or an idea that recurs in a work or in several works |
| Genre | a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterization by a particular style, form, or content |
| Canto | a subdivision in a long poem, corresponding to a chapter in a book |
| Figure of speech | a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another dissimilar thing and is not meant to be understood on a literal level |
| Which statement below is a figure of speech? | All three of the above are figures of speech: The clock, its arms, wasting away my time. My love is a red, red rose. Her love drowns me like a terrible fish. |
