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| the repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants or consonant clusters at the beginning of words. | ||
| a reference to a person, a place, an event, or a literary work that a writer expects the reader to recognize and respond to. | ||
| a figure of speech in which an absent or a dead person, an abstract quality, or something non-human is addressed directly | ||
| repetition of similar vowel sounds | ||
| verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | ||
| a break or pause in a line of poetry | ||
| a kind of developed metaphor that makes a comparison between two startlingly different things | ||
| all the emotions and associations that a word or phrase may arouse | ||
| the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words | ||
| any two consecutive lines that rhyme | ||
| the literal or dictionary meaning of a word | ||
| a writers choice of words, particularly for clarity, effectiveness, and precision | ||
| the reader or audience perceives something that a character in the story or play does not know | ||
| a discrepancy between the expected results of some action or situation and its actual results | ||
| a poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual | ||
| rhymes that occur at the ends of lines | ||
| a long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflecting the values of the society from which it originated | ||
| verse that has either no metrical pattern or an irregular pattern | ||
| two consecutive lines of rhymed iambic pentameter | ||
| a rhythm pattern of five metric feet of light, then heavy beats. | ||
| words or phrases that appeal to the senses and create pictures or images in the reader's mind | ||
| rhymes that occur within lines of a poem | ||
| a contrast or an incongruity between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what really happens. | ||
| a poem, usually short, that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts or feelings | ||
| a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically dissimilar | ||
| a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry, measure of the rhythm of a poetic line | ||
| a figure of speech in which something very closely associated with a thing is used to stand for or suggest the thing itself. (the "crown" instead of the "king") | ||
| feeling created in the reader by the literary work | ||
| a recurring feature such as a name, an image or a phrase in a work of literature | ||
| a poem that tells a story | ||
| the use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning | ||
| a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms | ||
| the use of phrases, clauses, or sentences that are similar or complementary in structure or meaning | ||
| a type of poem that deals in an idealized way with shepherds and rustic life. | ||
| a figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities | ||
| stanza or poem with four lines | ||
| a word, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem, usually at the end of each stanza | ||
| repeated words or phrases | ||
| the pattern of rhymes in a poem | ||
| the repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem | ||
| the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in to a pattern | ||
| six line stanza | ||
| comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word of comparison such as like or as | ||
| fourteen line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter | ||
| persona or person speaking in the poem | ||
| verse of a poem | ||
| a figure of speech that substitutes a part for the whole (the prow coursed through the water) | ||
| the general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express in a literary work | ||
| attitude demonstrated by the writer toward his or her subject | ||
| discrepancy between what is said and what is meant | ||
| the story represents something else. There is a literal level plus a symbolic level. (Animal Farm) | ||
| the sentence within the poetry extend through one line and continues in the next line or lines | ||
| the basic unit that describes the underlying rhythm of a poem | ||
| an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally (i'ts raining cats and dogs) | ||
| a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth | ||
| a literary medium distinguished from poetry especially by its greater irregularity and variety of rhythm and its closer correspondence to the patterns of everyday speech | ||
| the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice , folly, etc. | ||
| something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign | ||
| A single metrical line in a poetic composition; one line of poetry | ||
| latter two syllables of first word rhyme with latter two syllables of second word (ceiling appealing) |
