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| A work with two levels of meaning, one symbolic and one literal. |
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| A repetition of consonants at beginning of words. |
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| Indirect reference to something familiar. |
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| Comparing two things to clarify the less familiar subject. |
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| Repetition of vowel sound in two or more stressed syllables that don't end with the same consonant. ex: fEars, cEase, glEan'd, tEaming |
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| The emotional, not literal, response, evoked by a word. |
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| Compares two very dissimilar things that have something in common in a more elaborate way than an extended metaphor. |
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| A repetition of consonant sounds. |
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| A writer or speaker's choice of words. |
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| A lyric poem where the speaker addresses a silent or absent listener in an intense moment, as if in private conversation. |
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| Extended meditative poem where the speaker reflects on death. |
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| Long narrative poem on serious subject presented in a formal style. Traces the adventures of a hero whose actions consist of courageous deeds. |
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| Poetry that doesn't have regular patterns of rhyme or meter. |
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| Characterized by grotesque characters, bizarre situations, and violent events. |
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| Figure of speech where the truth is exaggerated for emphasis and humorous effect. |
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| Refers to words and phrases that create vivid sensory experiences. |
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| When the reader/viewer knows something a character does not know. |
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| When a character or reader expects one thing to happen, but something else happens. |
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| When a writer says one thing but means another. |
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| Metaphorical compound words or phrases substituted for simple nouns. |
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| Short poem in which a single speaker expresses thoughts and feelings. |
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| A figure of speech that compares two things that have something in common, and don't use "like" or "as". |
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| Poetry style written by a group of 17th century poets, of whom John Ponne was the first. They rejected the conventions of Elizabethan poetry. they instead approached subjects like religion, death and even love by analyzing them logically and philosophically. |
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| Repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry. |
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