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| a state of mind in which one emotions characterize a literary work |
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| a theme (an element appearing in one or more of a author’s works) |
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| a poem that tells a story |
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| a type of lyrical verse dealing with one subject |
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| the use of a word of phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what is describes |
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| a word, sentence, or verse that reads the same from left to right (civic, Able was I eve I saw Elba) |
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| something which first appears false, but after careful consideration is indeed true |
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| a figure of speech in which an animal, object, or idea is given the characteristics of a human being |
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| imaginative writing in which language, images, sound, and rhythm combine to create a special emotional effect |
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| the author’s intention or goal in writhing a particular work |
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| a group of four consecutive lines of poetry that form a unit |
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| in some songs and poems, a line of group of lines repeated at regular intervals |
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| the repeated use of sounds, words, phrase, or lines |
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| the repetition, in two or more words, by stressed vowel sounds and the consonants that come after them |
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| the pattern of beats made by stressed and unstressed syllables in the line of a poem |
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| the pattern made by the end rhymes in a poem. The rhyme scheme of a poem is indicated by the assignment on a different alphabet letter to each new rhyme |
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| in poetry a line in which the meaning continues beyond the line |
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| a figure of speech that uses like or as to directly compare two seemingly unlike things |
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| in a poem the voice that utters the words of the poem |
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| a group of lines forming a unity in a poem |
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| the main idea of a literary work |
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| the name of a work of literature |
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| the selection of words in a literary work to convey meaning, suggests the author’s attitude, and create images |
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| the skillful manipulation of words, often for humorous effect |
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