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| A form of extended metaphor where objects take on a symbolic meaning. |
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| A repitition of the initial sounds of several words in a group. |
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| A brief reference to a person, place or event, real or fictcious. |
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| The comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship. ex. “hot is to cold as fire is to ice.” |
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| A person or force with opposes the protagonist. |
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| Petrarchan poetry generally consisted of lover-warriors amid a landscape drowned by the lover's tears and blasted by the winds generated by their sighs. Petrarch invented this repertoire of conceits as an amusing way to play with the intensification of feeling he sought to achieve. Anti-Petrarchan poems disavowed those conceits and usually protested a form of honest reportage about the beloved and the love. |
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| A brief statement which expresses an observation on life, usually intended as a wise observation. ex. “Drive the business; let it not drive thee.” |
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| a figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to someone nonhuman. ex. John Donne's “The Sun Rising” he scolds the sun for inturrupting his nightmare. “Busy old fool, unruly sun; Why dost thou thus; Through windows and through curtains call on us?” |
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