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| story with two paralell and consistent levels of meaning, one literal one figurative, in which the figurative level offers and moral or political lesson |
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| the repetition of consonant sounds |
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| references to familiar historical, cultural, literary,or biblical texts, figures, or events |
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| the repetition of vowel sounds at the end of a word |
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| intended to be sung, uses repeated words and phrases, including a refrain, to advance its story |
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| unrhymed verse, esp. the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse |
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| an elaborate, fanciful metaphor, esp. of a strained or far-fetched nature and the use of such metaphors as a literary characteristic, esp. in poetry |
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| A couplet is a stanza (or even a poem) consisting of two lines. It is also possible to find a longer poem whose lines are rhymed in pairs - aabbcc etc - described as being in rhyming couplets, even if the stanzas are longer than two lines. |
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| An elegy is a poem of mourning; this is often the poet mourning one person |
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| a long narrative poem in a dignified style about the deeds of a traditional or historical hero or heroes |
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| Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else, you are using figurative language. Any language that goes beyond the literal meaning of words in order to furnish new effects or fresh insights into an idea or a subject. |
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| A foot is a unit of metre, consisting of a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
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| Poetry that overtly uses the effects of metre, rhyme and form, especially the fixed forms (sonnets, villanelles etc) is known as formal verse. |
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| a three-line poem, consisting of seventeen syllables split 5 - 7 - 5. |
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| A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton |
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If stressed syllables are marked "/" and unstressed "u", the main types can be shown thus:
Iamb: [ u / ], such as "delight". (The adjective is "iambic".) |
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| the name given to the elements in a poem that spark off the senses. |
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| Lyric Poetry consists of a poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. Lyric poetry does not tell a story which portrays characters and actions. The lyric poet addresses the reader directly, portraying his or her own feeling, state of mind, and perceptions. |
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| takes two things and claims they are the same without using like or as |
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| a system of describing what we can measure about the audible features of a poem |
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| a lyric poem, usually addressing a particular person or thing |
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| the forming and use of words and phrases to imitate or suggest the sounds they describe, such as bang, whisper, cuckoo, splash and fizz |
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| A stanza form often used for longer poems, most famously in Byron's 'Don Juan', consisting of eight lines, usually in iambic pentameter, rhymed abababcc. |
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| a figure of speech in which a thing, quality, or idea is represented as a person |
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| a stanza or poem of four lines, often rhyming abab, abba, or abcb |
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| the repetition of the end-sounds of words |
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| an effect of ordered movement in a work of art, literature, drama, etc. attained through patterns in the timing, spacing, repetition, accenting, etc. of the elements |
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| often Romanticism An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18th century and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and conventions. |
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| A simile is a comparison that claims the things being compared are similar, rather than the metaphor's claim that the two things are the same |
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| a poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, that has one of two regular rhyme schemes |
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| a group of lines within a poem |
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| Stock characters draw from widely known cultural types for their characteristics and mannerisms, and are often used in parody. |
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| A poem in which each stanza is rhymed aba, with the inner rhyme from one stanza providing the outer rhymes for either the previous or subsequent stanza: aba bcb cdc... or aba cac dcd.... The form can end in a single-line stanza, a couplet, or by referring back to the as-yet-unused rhyme from the first stanza |
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