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| Term used for lines that have subject matter that is trite with a monotonously heavy-handed rhythem. |
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| Prose restatement of the central ideas in your own words. |
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| Make a comparison of 2 unlike things without using like or as. |
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| Voice used by the speaker. |
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| Words made form letters of other words. |
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| Long narrative poem chronicalling heroic deeds/important events. |
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| Ideas or expression that have become tired or overused. |
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| Exploits the reader by inducing responses that exceed what the situation warrents |
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| Use of elevated language rather than ordinary language. |
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| dignified, impersonal, and elevated language. |
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| Spoken by most educated people. |
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| Slang expressions not used by culture at large. |
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| A type of informal diction used by writers to differenciate between characters. |
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| Language defined by a trade or profession |
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| Dictionary definition of a word. |
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| Associations that go beyond words literal meaning |
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| Speaker created by a poet. |
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| Two or more simultaneous interpretations of a word. |
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| Order of words into meaningful patterns. |
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| Writers attitude of the subject. |
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| Breif cultural reference to a person, place, thing, event, etc. |
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| Language that addresses the senses. |
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| Makes an explicit comparison between two things by using words such as: like, as, than, appears, etc. |
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| Subtle comparison; the terms being compared are not so specifically explained. |
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| A sustained comparison in which part or all of a poem consists of a series of related metaphors. |
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| Runs through an entire work and determines its form or nature. |
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| Play on words that relies on a word having more than one meaning or sounding like another word. |
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| Figure of speech in which part of something is used to signify the whole: a neighbor is a "wagging tounge" (a gossip); a criminal is placed "behind bars" (Put in prison) |
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| Something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it: "she preffered the silver screen [motion pictures] to reading. At approximately 10, the paper shufflers [office workers] stopped for coffee. |
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| The attribution of human characteristics to non-human things: trees scream in the raging winds... |
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| An address either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something non-human that cannot comprehend |
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| Overstatement or Hyperbole |
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Exaggeration
ex: The teenage boy ate everything in the house. |
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| A statement that initially appears to be self-contradictory but that, on closer inspection, turns out to make sense: "The pen is mightier than the sword" |
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Condensed form of a paradox where two contradictory words are used together.
"silent scream" |
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| Something that represents something else |
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| Something that is recognized by many people to represent certain ideas. |
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| Literary or Contextual Symbol |
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| Symbol that goes beyond traditional, public meanings. |
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| A narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning because its events, actions, characters, settings, and objects represent specific abstractions or ideas |
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| Designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religous lesson. |
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| Discrepancy between what appears to be true and what actually exists |
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| Saying something different from what is meant. |
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| Literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in order to expose or correct it. |
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| When the writer allows the reader to know more about a situation than a character does. |
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| When the writer uses: God, destiny, or fate to dash the hopes and expectations of a character or humankind in general |
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| Tells a story that is sung from one generation to the next until it is finally transcribed. |
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The use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes.
Buzz, Choo-Choo, Squeak |
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Repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginnings of nearby words.
"D"escending "D"ewdrops" |
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Repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby words.
"tIme tIde" |
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| Lines that are musically pleasant to the ear and smooth |
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| Lines that are discordant and difficult to pronounce. |
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| Ways of creating sound patterns. Two or more words or phrases that repeat the same sounds: happy and snappy |
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Spellings of words are similar, but the pronunciations are not.
Brow and Blow |
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| Comes at the end of lines. |
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| Places at least one of the rhymed words within the line. |
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| Rhyming of single-syllable words: shade and glade |
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| Consists of rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more rhymed unstressed syllables. |
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| Share the same stressed vowel sounds as well as any sounds that follow the vowel. |
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| Near Rhyme- Also called:(Off rhyme, Slant rhyme, Approximate rhyme) |
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| The sounds are almost but not exactly alike. |
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| Recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds. |
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| Places more emphasis on one syllable than on another. |
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Rhythmic pattern of stresses recurs in a poem.
All the metrical elements in a poem make up the prosody. |
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| consists of measuring the stresses in a line to determine it metrical pattern |
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| Metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured. |
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| Line by Line examination of the poem. |
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| Usually only examines a signle element- such as diction, character, point of view, etc. |
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