A
  Anadiplosis [Greek, 'double-back']: repetition of the last word in
  a line/segment at the start of the next line/segment.
  Analepsis: a flashback.
  Anaphora [Greek, 'a carrying up or back']: a repetition of a word
  or words in succesive phrases, clases, or lines [e.g., Maya Angelou
  repeats the word "Here" in her piece entitled, 'A Zorro Man'
  & I repeat my title line, 'When I Think Of U'].
  Antepenultima: second word from the end of a line...also the
  second last syllable of a word Antepenumate: third word from the
  end of a line.
  Anthropomorphism: fig. of speech. Speaking of an abstract
  thing/object as if it were human.
  Antistrophe: an answer to the strophe & the second stanza in a
  Pindaric ode.
  Aphesis: [Greek, 'a letting go']: omission of an unaccented vowel
  at the beginning of a word. [e.g., 'special for 'especial].
  Apocope [Greek, 'a cutting off']: omission of the final sound or
  syllable of a word [e.g., 'thick an' thin' in place of 'thick and thin'
  or 'ol' in place of 'old'].
  Assonance: a rhyming of words in one or more of their accented
  vowels, but not of the following consonats [e.g., pale/brave].

  B
  Ballade: a verse form consisting of three symmetrical stanzas
  & a short concluding verse called an envoy (addressed to some
  imagined hearer), all four stanzas sharing a refrain.
  Bard: Celtic name for poet or singer.
  Bombast: swollen rhetoric, pretentious language. hollow
  ranting.

  C
  Cadence: the fall or modulation of the voice. the rhythmic flow
  of sound, esp. of words in verse or prose.
  Circumlocution: using many words when a few would do.
  an indirect or roundabout expression.
  Clerihew: a form of light verse consisting of two couplets &
  having the name of a person in the first line.
  Consonance: a resemblance in sound between two words,
  or an initial/head rhyme like alliteration, but also refined to
  mean shared consonants, whether in sequence [’bud & ‘bad’]
  or reversed [’bud’ & ‘dab’].
  Corona [Latin origin, ‘crown’]: a sonnet sequence where the last
  line in one sonnet becomes the first line of the next sonnet, & the
  final line in the sequence repeats the first line of the first sonnet.

  D
  Didactic verse: poems that exist so as to teach the readers
  something, often a moral.
  Distich: two lines of verse, connected, & usually complete in
  sense. a couplet.
  Dizain: a stanza or poem of ten lines.
  Doggerel: worthless verse. irregular verse measures.

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