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Octameter
A line of verse consisting of eight metrical feet.

Octave
A stanza of eight lines.

Octosyllable
A metrical line of eight syllables, such as iambic tetrameter. A verse consisting of eight-syllable lines.

Ode
An elaborately composed verse that is enthusiastic in tone. It often has varying iambic line lengths with no fixed system of rhyme schemes. It often addresses a praised person or object.

Odeon or Odeum
A small roofed theater in devoted to the presentation of musical and poetic works to the public often competing for prizes.

Onomatopoeia
Words used in place of where a reader should hear sounds. Words such as pop, crackle, snap, whizz, buzz, zing, etc.

Open Couplet
The second line is a run-on and requires the first line of the next couplet to aid in the completion of its meaning.

Ottava Rima
A stanza of eight lines of heroic verse, with a abababcc rhyme scheme.

Oxymoron
The joining of two words that seem to be contradictory (opposites), but offer a unique effect such as living deaths, freezing fires, deafening silence, and pretty ugly.



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