Literary Terms
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| (n.) placing an event, person, or thing outside of its historical era | ||
| (n.) an indirect reference to a mythological, Biblical, or literary text or character or to a historical or current event or figure | ||
| (n.) a direct and explicit address either to an absent person or to an abstract or nonhuman entity. | ||
| (n.) giving human characteristics to non-human things | ||
| (n.) comparing two unlike things using like or as | ||
| (n.) the repetition of vowel sounds within words | ||
| (n.) a long lyric poem that is serious in subject, elevated in style, and elaborate in its stanzaic structure | ||
| (n.) a narrative poem written in imitation of the traditional ballads that were sung, transmitted, orally, and told a story; opens with an abrupt and impersonal narration, and tells a story without self-reference or the expression of personal attitude of feelings; organized into quatrains with alternating 4 and 3 stress lines | ||
| (n.) a 14-line poem with a specific structure and meter; known as the Petrarchan sonnet; broken into two sections: an eight-line octave (abba abba) and a six-line sestet (cdecde OR cdcdee). Topics are subjects that can be looked at in two different ways, such as before and after, compare and contrast or question and answer. | ||
| (n.) a 14-line poem with a specific structure and meter; known as the English Sonnet; organized into 3 quatrains (four-line verses) in alternating rhymes (abab cdcd efef) and a concluding rhymed couplet (two-line verse) (gg). |
