Lit Terms for the Lanese Midterm!
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| 4329463 | alliteration | repetition at close intervals of initial consonant words | |
| 4329464 | assonance | repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds | |
| 4329465 | consonance | repetition at close intervals of final consonant sounds | |
| 4329466 | cacophony | harsh, non-melodic, unpleasant sounding arrangement of words | |
| 4329467 | euphony | pleasant, easy to articulate words | |
| 4329468 | onomatopoeia | use of words which mimic their meaning in sound | |
| 4329469 | sibilance | hissing sounds represented by s, z, sh | |
| 4329470 | allegory | characters are symbols, has a moral | |
| 4329471 | apostrophe | someone absent, dead, or imagianary, or an abstraction, is being addressed as if it could reply | |
| 4329472 | didactic poetry | poetry with the primary purpose of teaching or preaching | |
| 4329473 | dramatic monologue | character "speaks" through the poem; a character study | |
| 4329474 | elegy | poem which expresses sorow over a death of someone for whom the poet cared, or on another solemn theme | |
| 4329475 | sonnet | 14 line poem, fixed rhyme scheme, fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line) | |
| 4329476 | connotation | what a word suggests beyond its surface definition | |
| 4329477 | denotation | basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word | |
| 4329478 | diction | choice of words for effect | |
| 4329479 | syntax | word order or grammatical appropriateness | |
| 4329480 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | |
| 4329481 | caesura | a natural pause in the middle of a line, sometimes coinciding with punctuation | |
| 4329482 | couplet | two successive lines which rhyme, usually at the end of a work | |
| 4329483 | enjambment | describes a line of poetry in which the sense and grammatical construction continues on to the next line | |
| 4329484 | feminine rhyme | latter two syllables of first word rhyme with latter two syllables of second word (ceiling appealing) | |
| 4329485 | free verse | no fixed meter or rhyme | |
| 4329486 | iambic pentameter | 70% of verse is written this way; ten syllables per line, following an order of unaccented-accented syllables | |
| 4329487 | internal rhyme | repetition of sounds within a line (but not at the end of the line) | |
| 4329488 | masculine rhyme | final syllable of first word rhymes with final syllable of second word (scald recalled) | |
| 4329489 | meter | regularized rhythm of stressed and unstressed syllables; accents occur at approx. equal intervals of time | |
| 4329490 | refrain | repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines in a pattern | |
| 4329491 | rhyme | repetition of end sounds | |
| 4329492 | rhythm | wave-like recurrence of sound | |
| 4329493 | stanza | group of lines | |
| 4329494 | structure | internal organization of a poem's content | |
| 4329495 | allusion | a reference to something in literature of history | |
| 4329496 | anaphora | repetition of the same word or words at the start of two or more lines | |
| 4329497 | archetype | a character or personality type found in every society | |
| 4329498 | conceit | an extended witty, paradoxical, or startling metaphor | |
| 4329499 | hyperbole | exaggeration, overstatement | |
| 4329500 | imagery | representation through language of a sensory experience | |
| 4329501 | irony | incongruity or discrepancy between the implied and expected; verbal, dramatic, situational | |
| 4329502 | metaphor | implied or direct comparison | |
| 4329503 | metonymy | symbolism; one thing is used as a substitute for another with which it is closely identified (the White House) | |
| 4329504 | mood | the atmosphere suggested by the structure and style of the poem | |
| 4329505 | oxymoron | compact paradoxl two successive words contradict each other | |
| 4329506 | pace | tempo or rate implied by the structure and style of the poem | |
| 4329507 | paradox | statement or situation containing seemingly contradictory elements | |
| 4329698 | parallelism | presents coordinating ideas in a coordinating manner | |
| 4329699 | persona | assumed speaker of the poem; typically used synonymously with 'speaker' | |
| 4329700 | personification | giving a non-human the characteristics of a human | |
| 4329701 | simile | comparison using 'like' or 'as' | |
| 4329702 | style | an author's combined use of these ideas into a recurring pattern of usage | |
| 4329703 | symbolism | something (object, person, situation, etc.) means more than what it is | |
| 4329704 | synecdoche | symbolism; the part signifies the whole, or the whole the part (all hands on board) | |
| 4329705 | theme | central idea | |
| 4329706 | tone | writer's attitude toward the audience or subject, implied or related directly | |
| 4329707 | understatement | saying less than one means, for effect |
