Allegory

a work in which each element symbolizes, or represents, something else

Alliteration

the repetion of initial consonant sounds

Allusion

a rhetorical technique in which reference is made to a person, event, object, or work from history or literature

Anaphora

term is used by linguists, is any word or phrase that repeates or refers to something that precedes or follows it

Aphorism

Works that that are doubtful in their origin or authorship

Apology

A literary defense.

(i.e) Emily Dickinson's "This is my Letter to the World")

Apostrophe

a rhetorical device by which a speaker turns from the audience as a whole to address a single person or thing

Blank Verse

unrhymed poetrywritten in iambic pentameter.

Chiasmus

a Rhetorical technique in which te order of occurrence of words or phrases is reversed

Couplet

Two lines of verse that usually rhyme

Heroic couplet

a pair of ryming iambic pantameter lines

Hyperbole

an exageration made for rhetorical effect

Iambic Pentameter

poetic foot containing one weakly stressed syllable followed by one strongly stressed sylable

Metaphor

figuere of speech in which one thing is spoken about or written about as if it were another, used to make a comparison between two things

Mood

emotion created in the reader by part or all of a literary work

Myth

a stroy that explains objects or events in the natural world as resulting from the act of some supernatural force or entity

Paradox

a seemingly contradictory statement, idea, or event.

Personification

a figuere of speech in which an idea, animal, or thing is described as if it were a person

Rhetoric

Art of speaking and writing effectively

Rhetorical Question

 a question asked for effect but not meant to be answered because the answer is clear from context

Sight rhyme

pair of words that are spelled similarly but pronounced differently

Simile

a comparasin using like or as

Synecdoche

refering to a single part when speking of a whole

"could you lend a hand"