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| Sentence Structure: SImple, Compound, Complex, fragments; in poety, this includes rythm, meter and rhyme. |
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| The dictionary meaning of a word |
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| The implied meaning conected with a word |
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| the simplest, most ordinary, obvious meaning |
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| associative or conotative meaning; representational |
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| measured pattern of rythmic accents in a line of verse |
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| correspondence of terminal sounds of words or in a line of verse |
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| attitude that a literary speaker expresses toward his or her subject matter and audience; described in adjectives |
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| similar to tone, but more of the atmosphere that is set |
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| a direct address of an inanimate object, abstract qualities, or a person not living or present |
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| exaggeration for emphasis |
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| comparison without like or as |
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a part substituted for the whole "daily bread" instead of the entire meal |
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a closly related term substituted for an object or idea "loyal to the crown" |
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a combination of 2 words that appear to contradict each other "bittersweet" "jumbo shrimp" |
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| a situation or phrase that appears to be contradictory but which contains truth |
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the endowment of inanimate objects with living qualities |
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play on words OR a humorous use of a single word or sound with 2 or more implied meanings |
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| comparison between 2 unlike things using "like" or "as" |
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| a contradiction of expectation between what is said and what is meant |
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| when the audience is privy to knowledge that one or more of the characters lack |
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| implying a meaning different from, and often the complete opposite of, the one that is explicitly stated often associated with sarcasm |
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| a discrepancy between the expected result and actual results when enlivened by 'perverse appropriateness' |
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| word or sequence of words representing a sensory experience (visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, and gustatory) |
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| an attempt to fuse different senses by describing one in terms of another |
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| an object or action that stands for something beyond itself |
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| sustained and circumscribed analogy between a subject and an image to which it is compared |
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| the repetition of consonant sounds, particularly at the beginning of words |
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| the repetition of similar vowel sounds |
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| the omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry |
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| the use of words to imitate the sounds they describe |
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| a reference to the person, event, or work outside the poem or literary piece |
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| individual speaker expresses what he or she feels, perceives, and thinks; although usual point of view is first person, it is important to distinguish the “I” of the speaker from that of the actual poet; however close the speaker may seem to be to the poet’s point of view, he or she is always in some part an invented character. |
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| poetic form free from regularity and consistency in elements such as rhyme, line length, and metrical form |
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| poetic form subject to a fixed structure and pattern |
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| unit of a poem often repeated in the same form throughout a poem; a unit of poetic lines ("verse paragraph") |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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