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| an elaborate and extended metaphor or simile that links two apparently unrelated fields or subjects |
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| proper, elevated, and elaborate language characterized by complex words and a lofty tone |
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| correct language and word order without elaborate words or a lofty tone |
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| relaxed, conversational, colloquial, or substandard language |
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| a phrase or style of speaking, characteristic of a particular group, class, religion, or nation, whose meaning cannot be derived from an analysis of constituent parts |
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| the language or a particular social class, regions, or group |
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| informal and substandard vocabulary, made up of spontaneous words and phrases which may exist for a time and then vanish, although some expressions also become permanent |
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| words and phrases that are characteristic of a particular profession, trade, or pursuit such as medicine, football, or the military |
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| a number of sensory impressions making for immediacy and vividness in a single work or in a number of works |
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| contradiction that is true |
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| addressing one not present |
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| a rhetorical figure in which a part stands for a whole or a whole stands for a part |
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| a rhetorical figure in which one this is used as another with which it is closely related |
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| a rhetorical figure uniting or fusing separate sensations or feelings; the description of one type of perception/thought with words that are appropriate to another |
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| word play in which the writer surprisingly reveals words with totally different meaning have similar or even identical sounds |
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| a figure which achieves emphasis through exaggeration |
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| deliberate underplaying or undervaluing of a thing for purposes of emphasis |
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| metrical foot consisting of a light stress followed by a heavy stress U/ |
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| a metrical foot of two syllables with a heavy accent on the first /U |
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| any agreeable (pleasing/harmonious) sounds; consonants that permit an easy and pleasant flow of spoken sound |
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| loud confusing disagreeable sounds; a loud harsh or strident noise; produce sharpness or harshness |
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| the occurrence of words rhyming in a single line of verse |
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| slant/near/half/off rhyme |
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| almost rhymes in which usually the vowel segments are different and the consonants are the same |
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| in position in a poem where rhyme is expected, eye rhyming words look as though they should rhyme exactly but do not, as in love and prove |
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| two successive, equally heavy stresses // |
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| two unstressed syllables UU |
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| two light stresses followed by a heavy UU/ |
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| a heave stress followed by two light stresses /UU |
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| two successive rhyming lines of iambic pentameter; the second line is commonly end-stopped |
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| three line unit or stanza of poetry; typically AAA or ABA |
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| a closed poetic form of nineteen lines composed of five triplets and a quatrain; whole lines must be repeated in a specific order and only two rhyming sounds can occur throughout |
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| English/Shakespearean sonnet |
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| a fourteen line poem in iambic pentameter composed of three quatrains and a couplet abab cdcd efef gg |
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| a line ending in a full pause, usually indicated with a period or semicolon |
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| a line of poetry having no end punctuation but running over to the next line |
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| a brief statement, in one's own words, of all or part of a literary work |
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| a type of poem derived from the theatre, in which a speaker speakes to an internal listener or to the reader at lengty; the form is related to the soliloquy |
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| complete and detailed analysis of a work literature often word-by-word and line-by-line |
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| emotional, psychological, or social overtones or implications that a word carries |
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| standard dictionary meaning of a word |
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| word order and sentence structure |
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| rhetorical figure in which the same grammatical forms are repeated |
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