Poetry terms
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| 5300097884 | ALLEGORY | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities | 0 | |
| 5300097885 | ALLITERATION | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together | 1 | |
| 5300097886 | ALLUSION | reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture. An indirect reference to something (usually from literature etc.)., | 2 | |
| 5300097887 | ANALOGY | Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike, | 3 | |
| 5300097888 | ASSONANCE | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together | 4 | |
| 5300097889 | CHIASMUS | In poetry, a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first but with the parts reversed. Coleridge: "Flowers are lovely love is flowerlike." , | 5 | |
| 5300097890 | CONCEIT | an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different. Often an extended metaphor. | 6 | |
| 5300097891 | CONNOTATION | the associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase in addition to its strict dictionary definition., | 7 | |
| 5300097892 | COUPLET | two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry., | 8 | |
| 5300097893 | DICTION | a speaker or writer's choice of words., | 9 | |
| 5300097894 | ELEGY | a poem of mourningusually about someone who has died. This is great praise or commendation a laudatory speech, often about someone who has died. | 10 | |
| 5300097895 | EXPLICATION | the meaning of a text, act of interpreting or discovering usually involves close reading and special attention to figurative language. | 11 | |
| 5300097896 | FARCE | a type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly far-fetched situations. | 12 | |
| 5300097897 | FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE | Words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally but are used to describe. Similes and metaphors are common forms. | 13 | |
| 5300097898 | FLASHBACK | a scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time. | 14 | |
| 5300097899 | FOIL | A character who acts as contrast to another character. Often a funny side kick to the dashing hero or a villain contrasting the hero. | 15 | |
| 5300097900 | FORESHADOWING | the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot. | 16 | |
| 5300097901 | FREE VERSE | poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme. | 17 | |
| 5300097902 | HYPERBOLE | a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement for effect. "If I told you once I've told you a million times...." | 18 | |
| 5300097903 | IMAGERY | the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person , a thing a place, or an experience., | 19 | |
| 5300097904 | IRONY | a discrepancy between appearances and reality., | 20 | |
| 5300097905 | VERBAL IRONY | occurs when someone says one thing but really means something else. | 21 | |
| 5300097906 | SITUATIONAL IRONY | takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen. | 22 | |
| 5300097907 | DRAMATIC IRONY | is so called because it is often used on stage. A character in the play or story thinks one thing is true but the audience or reader knows better. | 23 | |
| 5300097908 | LITOTES | is a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized throughthe negation of a negative form: Hawthorne--- "...the wearers of petticoat and farthingale...stepping forth into the public ways and wedging their not unsubstantial persons if occasion were, into the throng...", | 24 | |
| 5300097909 | LYRIC POEM | a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker. | 25 | |
| 5300097910 | METAPHOR | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as likeas, than, or resembles., | 26 | |
| 5300097911 | IMPLIED METAPHOR | does not state explicitly the two terms of the comparison: | 27 | |
| 5300097912 | EXTENDED METAPHOR | is a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it. (conceit if it is quite elaborate). | 28 | |
| 5300097913 | METONYMY | a figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it. "We requested from the crown support for our petition." The crown is used to represent the monarch. | 29 | |
| 5300097914 | MOOD | An atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected. | 30 | |
| 5300097915 | ONOMATOPOEIA | the use of words whose sounds echo their sense. "Pop." "Zap.", | 31 | |
| 5300097916 | OXYMORON | a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. "Jumbo shrimp." "Pretty ugly." "Bitter-sweet" | 32 | |
| 5300097917 | PARADOX | a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth., | 33 | |
| 5300097918 | PARALLEL STRUCTURE | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures | 34 | |
| 5300097919 | PERSONIFICATION | a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings thoughts, or attitudes., | 35 | |
| 5300097920 | QUATRAIN | a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit. | 36 | |
| 5300097921 | REFRAIN | a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem. | 37 | |
| 5300097922 | RHYTHM | a rise and fall of the voice produced by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language. | 38 | |
| 5300097923 | RHETORICAL QUESTION | a question asked for an effect, and not actually requiring an answer. | 39 | |
| 5300097924 | SIMILE | a figure of speech that makes an explicitly comparison between two unlike things using words such as like, as , than, or resembles., | 40 | |
| 5300097925 | SOLILOQUY | a long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage. | 41 | |
| 5300097926 | SYNECDOCHE | a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole. "If you don'tdrive properly you will lose your wheels." The wheels represent the entire car., | 42 | |
| 5300097927 | THEME | the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work., | 43 | |
| 5300097928 | TONE | the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audiencerevealed through diction, figurative language, and organization., | 44 |
