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| IAMB | a metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one; the most common poetic foot in the English language. |
| IDYLL | a type of lyric poem which extols the virtues of an ideal place or time. |
| IMPRESSIONISM | writing that reflects a personal image of a character, event, or concept. |
| LYRIC POETRY | a type of poetry characterized by emotion, personal feelings, and brevity; a large inclusive category of poetry that exhibits rhyme, meter, and reflective thought. |
| MAGICAL REALISM | a type of literature that explores narratives by and about characters who inhabit and experience their reality differently from what we term the objective world. |
| METAPHYSICAL POETRY | refers to the work of poets like John Donne who explore highly complex, philosophical ideas through extended metaphors and paradox. |
| METER | a pattern of beats in poetry |
| NARRATIVE POEM | a poem that tells a story. |
| OCTAVE | an eight-line stanza, usually combined with a sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet. |
| ODE | a formal, lengthy poem that celebrates a particular subject. |
| PARADOX | a set of seemingly contradictory elements which nevertheless reflects on an underlying truth. |
| PATHOS | The aspects of a literary work that elicit pity from the audience. |
| QUATRAIN | a four-line stanza. |
| RHYME/RIME | The duplication of final syllable sounds in two or more lines. |
| RHYME SCHEME | The annotation of the pattern of the rhyme. |
| RHYTHM | The repetitive pattern of beats in poetry. |
| ROMANTICISM | a style or movement of literature that has as its foundation an interest in freedom, adventure, idealism, and escape. |
| SCANSION | analysis of a poem's rhyme and meter |
| SESTET | a six-line stanza, usually paired with an octave to form a Petrarchan sonnet. |
| SESTINA | a highly structures poetic form of 39 lines, written in iambic pentameter. It depends upon the repetition of six words from the first stanza in each of six stanzas. |
