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| any wave-like recurrence of motion or sound (the natural rise and fall of language); alternation between accented and unaccented syllables. |
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| the kind of rhythm we can tap our foot to or "measure" in poetry/ We use the "foot" and "line" pattern of measured sound units recurring more or less regularly in lines of verse. |
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| a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable. |
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| a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable. |
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| a metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable. |
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| a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables or (in Greek and Latin) one long syllable followed by two short syllables. |
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| a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables. |
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| (of a word or utterance) consisting of one syllable. |
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| is a line of verse with just one metrical foot. |
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| a line of verse consisting of two metrical feet. |
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| a line of verse consisting of three metrical feet. |
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| a line of verse consisting of four metrical feet. |
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| a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet |
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| a line of verse consisting of six metrical feet. |
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| a line of verse consisting of seven metrical feet. |
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| a line of verse consisting of eight metrical feet. |
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| a group of verse lines in a poem, which is seen as a unit. |
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| the analysis of a poem's meter, identifying the type of feet and then counting them. |
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| iambic pentameter that doesn't rhyme. |
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| not metrical verse; arranged in lines but no fixed metrical pattern. |
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| figure of speech by which something is referred indirectly by naming only some part of it. |
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| a telling of some true or fictitious event recounted by a narrator. |
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| any fairly short poem expressing the personal mood, feeling or meditation of a single speaker. |
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| a lyric poem lamenting the arrival of dawn to separate two lovers. |
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| a poetic catalog of a person's admirable physical features. |
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| "seize the day" or "make the best of the present moment"; a common theme in lyric poetry, in which the speaker of a poem (often a hesitant virgin) that since life is short, pleasure should be enjoyed while there is still time. |
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| a figure of speech in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an abstraction or inanimate object. |
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| a quotation or motto placed at the beginning of a book, chapter or poem as an indication of its theme |
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| the speakers attitude toward the subject. |
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| a figure of speech extended for line or even pages. |
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| poetry characterized by intellectual displays and concern with the metaphysical or philosophical issues. |
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| images or descriptions that appear self-contradictory but that reveal a deeper truth. |
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| extended comparisons that link objects or ideas not commonly associated, often mixing abstract ideas and emotional matters. |
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| the arrangement of similarly constructed clauses, sentences or verse lines in pairing or other sequence suggesting some correspondence between them. |
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| term used by postmodern theorist, commonly referring to parody, irony and playfulness in embracing diversity and contradiction or rejecting rigid boundaries of high and low art. |
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| a repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines. |
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| a line or lines are repeated with slight variations from stanza to stanza, advancing the plot of the narrative. |
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| a pattern of rimed lines. |
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| a group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit. |
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| a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. |
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| something made or put together using whatever materials happen to be available. |
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| a dramatic, literary, or musical piece openly imitating the previous works of other artists; a hodgepodge of incongruous parts. |
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| narrator tells about events he or she has personally witnessed. |
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| narrator is speaking to someone else. |
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| third-person omniscient narrator |
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| narrator can see all and disclose all. |
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| third-person limited narrator |
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| focuses on thoughts and deeds of a major character. |
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| anything that stands for or represent something beyond itself. |
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| a story with a second meaning, partially hidden behind its literal meaning. |
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| a work made of two matching parts. |
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