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| 3522059965 | Allegory | A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, either in prose or verse, are equated with meaning that lie outside the narrative itself. | 0 | |
| 3522065467 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds within a line of poetry. | 1 | |
| 3522065468 | Allusion | A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history. | 2 | |
| 3522065594 | Apollonian | A term devised to describe literary writing (poetry and prose) which is characterized by form, symmetry, reason, order, moral rectitude, discipline, well balanced and objective view of nature. | 3 | |
| 3522077161 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone, some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addresses as though alive and capable of understanding. | 4 | |
| 3522155788 | Aubade | A dawn song which usually expresses the regret of two lovers that day has come too soon to separate them. | 5 | |
| 3522155789 | Ballad | A simple poem which deals with a dramatic situation, usually created for singing. | 6 | |
| 3522155790 | Blank Verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter. | 7 | |
| 3522158601 | Carpe Diem | "Seize the day" -- this Epicurean motif in poetry advises the reader to enjoy the present pleasure because of the brevity of life and finality of death. | 8 | |
| 3522158602 | Cliche | An overuse phrase which has lost its freshness. however, poets sometimes use them for ironic purposes in poems. | 9 | |
| 3522158603 | Conceit | A far-fetched, extended or fantastic metaphor comparing two unlike objects with powerful effect by arousing feelings of surprise, shock or amusement. | 10 | |
| 3522161907 | Connotation | what a word suggested beyond its basic definition; a word's overtones or cluster of implications that a word of phrase may carry with them as distinguished from their denotative meaning. | 11 | |
| 3522290573 | Denotation | the specific, exact meaning of a word, independent of its emotional coloration or associations. | 12 | |
| 3522315151 | Dionysian | A term used to describe literary writing (poetry and prose) which is intuitive, chaotic, orgiastic, frenzied, uninhibited, reckless, irrational, and an essential continuity with natural and cosmic order. It is nurtured by a belief that man participates in a drama of eternal repetition which is rooted in a cyclical view of nature. | 13 | |
| 3522315152 | Dramatic Monologue | A lyric poem told by one speaker about a dramatic event in which he/she is involved. the speaker demonstrates his character through the poem. The speaker addresses a listener who does not speak but whose presence help to develop the speaker's speech. | 14 | |
| 3522315153 | Elegy | A lyric poem that mediates upon the death of an individual, the absence of something deeply loved, or the transience of mankind. It has a solemn dignified tone as it laments the loss of something dear. | 15 | |
| 3522315154 | Enjambement | Employment of "run-on" lines which carry the completion of a statement from one line to another without rhetorical pause. | 16 | |
| 3522315155 | Imagery | The representation in poetry of any sense experience. It does not consist merely of "mental picture," but may make an appeal to any of the senses. | 17 | |
| 3522315156 | Irony | A situation, or use of language, involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy, the contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning. | 18 | |
| 3522523628 | Verbal Irony | Meaning one thing and saying the opposite of what is intended, e.g., understatement, overstatement, naiveté, foreshadowing. | 19 | |
| 3522523629 | Dramatic Irony | a device by which the author implies a different meaning from that intended by the speaker in a literary work, in drama this device is evident when contrast exists between what a character says and what the audience knows is true. | 20 | |
| 3522625814 | Juxtaposition | Literary technique of placing two images or symbols close together for the purpose of comparison or contrast. | 21 | |
| 3522628192 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which an implied analogy imaginatively identifies one object with another and ascribes to the first one or more of the qualities of the second or invests the first with emotional or imaginative qualities associated with the second. a literary comparison used to show the subtle resemblance between a particular person, place, or event to a more universal individual, place, or incident. | 22 | |
| 3522628193 | Metonymy | a figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself. in this way a writer may speak of the kings as "the crown," an object closely associated with kingship. | 23 | |
| 3522628194 | Naivete | May serve as a special form of irony which employs innocence and simplicity. | 24 | |
| 3522628742 | Narrative Poem | tells a story in a highly objective way by a speaker who is detached from the action. the thoughts and feeling os the speaker do not enter the poem. | 25 | |
| 3522639104 | Ode | complex lyric poem written about a dignified lofty subject. | 26 | |
| 3522850757 | Onomatopoeia | literary technique in which combinations of words imitate sounds. | 27 | |
| 3522850758 | Oxymoron | figure of speech which combines two contradictory terms to express a condensed paradox. It is used poetically to express religious mysteries which seem to be beyond human understanding. seeks to create a unity rather than a division. | 28 | |
| 3522855255 | Overstatement | a figure of speech in which conscious exaggeration is used without the intent of literal persuasion. It may be used to heighten effect or it may be used to produce comic relief. | 29 | |
| 3522855256 | Palindrome | A word, sentence or verse which reads alike backwards or forward, e.g., "Madam, I'm Adam" | 30 | |
| 3522859451 | Paradox | a statement or situation which seems on the surface contradictory or untrue, but proves valid upon closer inspection. it is closely related to irony. | 31 | |
| 3522946670 | Pathetic Fallacy | term coined to describe the tendency of poets to credit nature with the feelings of human beings. Example: "the dew shall waves." | 32 | |
| 3522946671 | Personification | a figure of speech which endows animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human form, character, or sensibilities. | 33 | |
| 3522946672 | Simile | comparison of one thing with another, announced by the word "like" or "as" | 34 | |
| 3522948876 | Sonnet | a lyric poem of 14 lines, usually about love, definite rhyme patterns, two major types; Petrarchan or Italian which is divided into eight lines (octave) and six lines (sestet). Shakespearean or English which is divided into three quatrains or four lines each and a two line couplet at the end. | 35 | |
| 3522953251 | Synecdoche | a metaphoric form which uses a part of something to signify the whole (something); thus the part signifies the whole. in order to be clear, it must be based on an important part of the whole and not a minor part and, usually, the part selected to stand for the whole must be the part most directly associated with the subject under discussion. Example: "motor" for "automobile", "honey" for "bee". | 36 | |
| 3523110158 | Tone | the writer's or speaker's attitude or mood toward his subject and his audience, and sometimes toward himself. | 37 | |
| 3523114537 | Understatement | a form of irony in which something is intentionally represented as less than in fact it is, or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants. | 38 | |
| 3523152205 | Villanelle | a nineteen (19) line lyric poem which is divided into five tercets and one quatrain. two rhymes or repeated lines predominate with a rhyme scheme aba aba aba aba aba abaa, line 1 is represented exactly in line 6, 12, and 18, while line 3 is repeated exactly in lines 9, 15, and 19. | 39 |
