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| the repetition of sounds in nearby wors or stressed syllables. |
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| the repetition of identical or similar vowels sounds in nearby words or stressed syllaables. |
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| an address to a dead or absent person or inanimate object. |
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| the use of harsh or discordant sounds in literary composition. |
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| a figure of speech in which 2 successive phrases or clauses are parallel in syntax but reverse the order of the analogous words."X" |
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| a word, phrase or form of pronunciation that is acceptable in casual conversation but not in formal written communications. |
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| a clever and fanciful metaphor, usually expressed through elaborate and extended comparison, that presents a striking parallel between teo seeming dissimair things. |
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| refers to any artifical decice or soincidence used to bring about a convenient and SIMPLE SOULUTION to a plot. |
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| the technique of beginning a story ar irs midpoint and then using various flashback devices to reveal previous action. FLASHBACK |
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| a figure of though in which a point is affirmed by negationg its opposite. |
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| a throphy employing deliberate understandment, usually for comic, ironic, or satiric effect. |
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| a trophe whcih substitues the name of an entity with something else that is closely associated with it. |
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| a rhetorical device in shice an isea is emphasized by the pretece that is to obvious to disscuss. |
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| a literary composition on rual theme in pastoral, characters and language of a courtly nature are often placed in a simple setting. |
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| a figure of thought in which a point is stated by deliberate curcumiocution rather than directly. |
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| a figure of though in which the term for part of something is used to represent the whole, or, less commonly, the ther for the whole is used to represent a part. |
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| the use of a word or phrase in a sense different from its ordinary meaning in a non literal sense. Like irony, metaphor and metonymy. |
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| those in which the sentence or clause continues for two or mare lines of verse; no punctuation appears at the end of the enjambed lines. |
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| form of comic verse consisting of 5 anapaestic lines of which the first, second, and fith have 3 metrical feet and rhyme together. |
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| name given to an extended lyric poem characterized by exalted emotion and dignified style. |
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| a collective term that describes the technical aspectes of verse relationg to rhythm, stress and meter |
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| a poem of 6-line and 3-line envoy, originally without rhyme, in whcih each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza. |
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| an opening octave with a rhyme scheme- abba abba (contiuos pattern and rules) |
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| thre quatrains and final couplet, shich rhyme; aba cdc efefgg |
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| a sonet that developes its themes in two parts, it's final six lines resloving a problem, analyzing a narratice or applying a propostion put forth in its first 8 lines. |
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| 2 stressed syllables in a row |
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| a group of three lines, usally sharing the same rhyme. |
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| tercets are linked by a pattern of shared rhymes; the first and last lines of eash stanza: aba bcb dcd |
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| a nineteen line poem with two repeating rhymes and tow refrains. |
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