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| poem or song that tells a story. | ||
| two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. (roses are red...) | ||
| a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. ( afour line stanza that may be rhymed or unrhymed.). | ||
| A 14- line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that one of several rhyme schemes. A Shakespearean sonnet has 3 quatrains followed by one couplet. (employs a rhyme scheme; ababcdcdefefgg.). | ||
| Group of consecutive lives in a poem that form a single unit. Something like a paragraph in prose, it often expresses on thought or idea. | ||
| Repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of words to a poem or prose. ex. Sally Sold Seashells by the Sea Shore. | ||
| Repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds in words of a poem or prose. ex. The June moon loomed over the horizon. | ||
| The repetition of similar consonant sounds as in lost and past or confess and dismiss. ex. Lady lizards lounge lazily. | ||
| Use the word whose sound imitates its meaning. ex. pop, buzz, hum. | ||
| Repition of accent vowel sounds and all the sounds following them. ex. lime and time. | ||
| The way in which a poem rhymes. Areusually illistrated by a loowercase letter of the alphabet denoting each line. ex. ababcdcd. | ||
| A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. | ||
| a unit of measure consistinf of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. four iambs in a line. " Come live/ with me/ and be/ my love.". | ||
| Line of poetry that contains 5 iambs. (10 syallables.). ex. "But soft/ what light/ through yon/ der win/ dow breaks?". | ||
| Reference in literature to a quote, person, place, or event from another piece of literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, or sports. | ||
| words that are spoken to a person who is absent or imaginary, or to an object or abstract idea. | ||
| language that appeals to the senses. | ||
| figure of speech tcomparing two things without using like, as, or than. | ||
| a metaphor that continues over several lines of poetry or through an entire poem. ex. when lady capulet compared Paris to a book. | ||
| a combination of contradictory terms. ex. wolf-ravening lamb, damned saint. | ||
| an assertion seemingly opposed to common sensee, but that may yet have some truth in it. ex. "She speaks, but says nothing.". | ||
| figure of speech in which a nonhuman thing is talked about as if it were human. | ||
| a play on the multiple meaning of a word. | ||
| figure of speech making a comparison between two unlike things using words such as like, as, or resembles. | ||
| a person, place or thing that stands for something beyond itself. | ||
| the deliberate omission of a word or words implied by the context and by the parallel structure. ( ...i like, "To err is human; to forgive, divine.".). | ||
| the repition of conjunctions in a series of coordinate words, phrases, or clauses. (and...and...and..). | ||
| lack of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words. (...,...,...,.). | ||
| (theater) irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. | ||
| give an indication beforehand; be a sign of (what is coming); portend; prefigure. | ||
| extreme exaggeration. | ||
| the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. |
