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-A reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture. |
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-The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. |
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-Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one, as in com-pre-HEND or in-ter-VENE. |
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-The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose. |
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-A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. |
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-A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
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-The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning. |
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-The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words. |
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-pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. |
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-A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones, as in FLUT-ter-ing or BLUE-ber-ry. |
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-The basic dictionary meaning of a word, without its connotations |
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-The selection of words in a literary work. |
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-A lyric poem that laments the dead. |
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-A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero. |
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-A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. |
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-A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
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-Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. |
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-A three-line poem, Japanese in origin, narrowly conceived of as a fixed form in which the lines contain respectively five, seven, and five syllables. |
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-A three-line poem, Japanese in origin, narrowly conceived of as a fixed form in which the lines contain respectively five, seven, and five syllables. |
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-An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, as in to-DAY. |
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-A basic measure of English poetry, five iambic feet in each line. |
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-: A concrete representation of a sense impression (sight, smell, sound, taste, touch), a feeling, or an idea. |
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-The pattern of related, comparative, sensory aspects of language, particularly of images that engage the senses (sight, smell, sound, taste, touch), in a literary work. |
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-A contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature. |
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-a short verse of five lines known for its humorous wit, following an AABBA rhyming pattern. |
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-A type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and the expression of feeling. |
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-directly compares using the verb to be. |
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-develops a comparison throughout the lines of the poem. |
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-suggests a comparison without stating it directly |
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-measured pattern of rhythmic accents of stressed and unstressed syllables in poems. |
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-A poem that tells a story. |
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-An eight-line unit, which may constitute a stanza; or a section of a poem. |
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-A long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form. |
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-use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. |
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-Mask or voice assumed by the poet within the speaker of the poem. |
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-The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities. |
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- A four-line stanza in a poem, the first four lines and the second four lines in a Petrachan sonnet. |
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-Repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines used to build rhythm, commentary, and suspense. |
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-Is words that repeat some sounds but are not exact echoes. |
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-Occurs at the end of the lines creating a rhyming pattern scheme |
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-Occurs within the lines of poetry |
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-consonance on the final consonants of the words involved |
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-often using assonance or consonance only |
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-when vowel sounds rhyme, but the words do not |
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-Holds to a pattern that shapes a poem’s rhythm and tone. |
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-Recurrence of accent or stress or repeated word patterns in lines of verse. |
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-A line of poetry without punctuation at its end. |
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-A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem; the last six lines of an Italian sonnet. |
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-a figure of speech that make comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word such as like, as, than, or resembles |
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| a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has one of several traditional rhyme schemes |
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| Shakespearean or English Sonnet |
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| The couplet has the rhyme scheme gg |
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| Petrarchan or Italian Sonnet |
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| a verse form that typically refers to a concept of unattainable love |
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| a foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter. |
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| a group of lines in a poem that forms a single unit |
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| the unique manner in which writers use language to express their ideas |
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| a person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself |
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| a triplet, or stanza of three lines, in which each line ends with the same rhyme |
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| the central idea or insight of a work of literature |
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| the distinguishing name of a book, poem, picture, piece of music, or the like. |
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| the a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character |
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| a foot of two syllables, a long followed by a short in quantitative meter, or a stressed followed by an unstressed in accentual meter |
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| a poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, but in different order, the envoy using the six words again, three in the middle of the lines and three at the end. |
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| when the later part of the word or phrase is identical sounding to that of another |
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