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| the repetition of the same consonant sounds in words that are close together in a poem, or the repetition of consonant sounds that are very similar. |
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| a reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science, or pop culture. |
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| a technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object, an idea, or a person who is either dead or absent. |
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| the repetition of a similar vowel sound followed by different consonant sounds, especially in words that are close together in a poem. |
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| a song or poem that tells a story. |
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| poetry written in unryhmed iambic pentameter. |
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| the natural, rhythmic rise and fall of a language as it is normally spoke; different from meter. |
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| a poem in which the words are arranged on a page to suggest a visual representation of the subject. |
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| poetry that uses intimate material from the poet's life. |
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| all the meanings. associations. or emotions that a word suggests. |
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| the repetition of the same or similar final consonant sounds on accented syllables of in important words. |
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| two consecutive lines that rhyme. |
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| literal, dictionary defintion of a word. |
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| a writer's or speaker's choice of words. |
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| a feature in poetry where the syntactic unit (phrase, clause, sentence) corresponds in length to the line. |
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| the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause. |
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| a long story told in poetry which relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society. |
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| a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level. |
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| a metrical unit of poetry usually consisting of one one or more stress and or more unstressed syllables. |
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| poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme . |
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| a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration, or overstatement for effect. |
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| language that appeals to the senses. |
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| the deliberate joining of opposites or of elements that are not appropriate to each other. |
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| a discrepancy between expectation and reality, between what is said and what is actually meant, between what is expected to happen and what actually happens, or between what appears to be true and what is really true. |
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| a writer or speaker says something but actually means something else. |
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| when what we expect to happen is the opposite of what really takes place. |
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| when the audience or reader knows something that a character is the play or story does not know. |
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| poetry that does not tell a story but aims at expressing a speaker's emotions or thoughts. |
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| a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becomes another thing without the use of the words like, as, than, or resembles. |
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| a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. |
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| an eight-line poem, or the first eight lines of a Petrarchan poem. |
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| a lyrics poem that is long and serious, and written with dignified language. |
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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 opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |
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| a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth. |
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| a line of poetry made up of five specific feet. |
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