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Allegory
A hidden meaning or message.
Blank Verse
Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter
Closed Form
A set form/outline that the poet must follow.
Connotation
Associations of a word beyond it's dictonary meaning.
Convention
A customary feature of a literary work.
Couplet
A pair of rhymed lines.
Elegy
A mourning lyric poem.
Figurative Language
Using internal other than literal meanings of words.
Foil
An antagonist.
Foot
A metrical unit of stressed and unstressed syllables.
lyric Poem
A poem that expresses the main characters feelings.
Meter
A measured pattern of rythmic accents in poems.
Octave
An eight line unit.
Sonnet
A fourteen line poem in Iambic Pentameter.
Syntax
The grammatical order of words.
Denotation
The dictionary meaning of a word.
Elison
Ommision of an unstressed vowel or syllable.
Assonance
Repetition of similar vowel sounds in a line.
Stanza
A section of a poem, like a paragraph.
Sestina
a highly structured poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet