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| the representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form |
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| the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words in a line of poetry |
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| a reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or popular culture |
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| has three syllables; the first two are unstressed with the third stressed |
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| the repetition of the same vowel sound in a phrase or line of poetry |
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| a song or songlike poem that tells a story |
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| poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| a pause or break within a line of poetry, usually indicated by the natural rhythm of the language |
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| two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
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| the repetition of consonant sounds in a phrase or line of poetry; the consonant sound may be at the beginning, middle, or end of the word |
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| has three syllables beginning with a stressed syllable; the other two are unstressed |
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| word choice or the use of words in speech or writing |
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| a poem in which a character addresses one or more listeners who remain silent or whose replies are not revealed |
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| a poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person |
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| the continuation of reading one line of a poem to the next with no pause, a run-on line |
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| type of verse that contains a variety of line lengths, is unrhymed, and lacks traditional meter |
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| a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or comic/dramatic effect |
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| has two syllables; the first is unstressed and the second is stressed; is the most common foot in English poetry |
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| language that appeals to the senses |
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| a contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality; between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected and what really happens, or between what appears to be true and what really is true |
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| a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba |
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| figure of speech in which a certain statement is expressed by denying its opposite |
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| a poem that focuses on expressing emotions or thoughts, rather than on telling a story |
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| a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison; this comparison does not use like or as |
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| poems of John Donne, Andrew Marvell, and other seventeenth-century poets who wrote in a difficult and abstract style |
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| a figure of speech in which something closely related to a thing or suggested by it is substituted for the thing itself |
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| a poem that has a plot and tells a story |
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| a complex, generally long lyric poem on a serious subject |
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| the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning |
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| a figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory or incongruous ideas |
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| an apparent contradiction that is actually true |
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| a figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form |
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| the repetition of sounds in words |
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| poem that emphasizes inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual |
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| a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as |
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| a lyric poem with fourteen lines |
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| a foot consisting of two long (stressed) syllables |
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| groups of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit |
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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 figure of speech in which a part represents the whole (Washington = Government) |
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| the attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character |
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| has two syllables; the first is stressed and the second is unstressed |
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| a figure of speech that consists of saying less than what is really meant or saying something with less force than is appropriate |
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| a nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets (three-line stanzas), each with the rhyme scheme aba, and a final quatrain with the rhyme scheme abaa |
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