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| A lesson or work of literature is teaching. |
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| The use of sound words to suggest meaning, as in buzz, click, or vroom. |
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| A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms--for example, "deafening silence." |
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| A contradictory statement that makes sense--for example, Hegel's paradox "Man learns form history that man learns nothing from history." |
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| A literary device in which animals, ideas, and things are represented as having human traits. |
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| The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular interval, particularly at the end of each stanza. |
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| The multiple use of a word, phrase, or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect. |
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| The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry. |
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| The time and place in which the action of a story takes place. |
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| A comparison of two unlike things, usually including the word like and as. |
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| How the author uses words, phrases, and sentences to form ideas. |
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| A person, place, thing, or event used to represent something else, such as the white flag that represents surrender. |
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| The overall feeling created by an author's use of words. |
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| A metric line of poetry. A verse is named based on the kind and number of feet composing it. |
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| Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns. |
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| During the mid-19th century in New England, several writers and intellectuals worked together to write, translate works, and publish and became known as transcendentalist. Their philosophy focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism. Thy valued individualism, freedom, experimentation, and spirituality. Noted transcendentalist included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. |
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