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| Repetition of initial consanant sounds in 2 or more words or syllables |
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| An indirect or implied reference |
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| Repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, sentences, or verses. |
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| Addressing of an absent person or a personified thing rhetorically |
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| What a word suggests beyond its basic definition; a word's overtone of meaning |
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| THe basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word |
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| Language employing figures of speech; language that can't be taken literally or only literally |
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| Overstatement (Hyperbole) |
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| Figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth |
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| THe representation of images through language of sense experience |
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A situation involving incongruity:
a) Verbal - What is meant is the opposite of what's said
b) Dramatic - Author implies a different meaning intended by a speaker
c) Situational - Incongruity between actual circumstances/what is anticipated and what actually happens |
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| Comparison is made by two things essentially unalike |
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a method of literary criticism involving a detailed analysis of a work
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| Metrical language; the opposite of prose |
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| nonmetrical poetry that does not follow a form |
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| Short composition of a poem but written with little to no meter- spoken like everyday speech |
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| The regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse; measurable repitition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry |
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| Any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas |
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| the running of a sentence from one line into the next without punctuation |
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| A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanza form |
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| A group of lines whose metrical pattern (and usually its rhyme scheme) is repeated throughout the poem |
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| Short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form |
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| A fixed form of 14 lines, normally in iambic pentameter |
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| the use of words whose sound suggests the sense of its meaning |
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| a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true |
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| representation of a thing or abstraction as a person or by the human form |
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| an ordered recurrent alternation of strong and weak elements in the flow of sound and silence in speec |
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| correspondence of other than terminal word sound |
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| a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or a |
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| something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance |
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| a subject or topic of discourse or of artistic representation |
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4: the pitch of a word often used to express differences of meaning
5 : a particular pitch or change of pitch constituting an element in the intonation of a phrase or sentenc |
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| to represent as less than is the case |
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