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| a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication |
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| the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group |
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| a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter |
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| any light, simple song, especially one of sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody. |
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| unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse |
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| the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning |
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| a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length. |
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| a foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short in quantitative meter, or one stressed followed by two unstressed in accentual meter |
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| the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it; the association or set of associations that a word usually elicits for most speakers of a language, as distinguished from those elicited for any individual speaker because of personal experience |
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| style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words |
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| a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. |
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| noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style |
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| speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech |
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| such a part considered as the organ of locomotion. |
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| verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern |
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| a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons. |
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| obvious and intentional exaggeration |
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| a satirical poem in this meter |
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| a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable |
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| an optical counterpart or appearance of an object, as is produced by reflection from a mirror, refraction by a lens, or the passage of luminous rays through a small aperture and their reception on a surface. |
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| the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively |
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| the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning |
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| a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet |
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| a short poem of songlike quality |
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| comparison not using like or as |
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| a metaphor that is extended through a stanza or entire poem, often by multiple comparisons of unlike objects or ideas |
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| the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian |
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| a poem that tells a story and has a plot |
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| a tone on the eighth degree from a given tone |
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| a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion |
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| the formation of a word, as cuckoo or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent |
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