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| A poem that tells a story. |
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| A type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and the expression of feeling. |
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| The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work. |
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| A type of poem in which the speakers addresses a silent listener. |
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| The selection of words in a literary work. |
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| The associations called up by a word that go beyond its dictionary meaning. |
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| The dictionary meaning of a word. |
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| A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. |
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| The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue. |
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| Syntactical reversal of the order of words or phrases in a sentence. |
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| The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. |
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| The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose. |
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| An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. |
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A comparison between essentially unlike things without explicitly comparative words such as like or as.
"My love is a red, red rose." |
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A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though.
"My love is like a red, red rose." |
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| A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. |
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| The pattern of related comparative aspects of language, particularly of images, in a literary work. |
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| The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of generalization. |
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| The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. |
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| A rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verses. |
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| Rhyme between a word within a line and another word either at the end of the same line or within another line. |
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| When the later part of the word or phrase is identical sounding to that of another. |
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| Two words that have only their final consonant sounds and no preceding vowel or consonant sounds in common. |
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| Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. |
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| A line of poetry or prose in an unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
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| The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems. |
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| A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. |
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| A line of poetry in which the grammatical and logical sense is completed within the line. |
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| A type of structure or form in poetry characterized by freedom from regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, metrical pattern, and overall poetic structure. |
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| A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length and metrical pattern. |
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| Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet |
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| Sonnet that divides into two parts: an eight-line octave and a six-line sestet, rhyming abba abba cde cde or abba abba cd cd cd |
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| Shakespearean or English Sonnet |
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| A sonnet that is arranged as three quatrains and a final couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg. |
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| 14 line poem in iambic pentameter. |
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| A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition. The first and third lines alternate throughout the poem, which is structured in six stanzas- five tercets and a concluding quatrain. |
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| A four line stanza in a poem. |
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| A pair of rhymed lines that may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. |
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| A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form-- either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter, or with variations from one stanza to another. |
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| A form of Japanese poetry. A haiku expresses a single feeling or impression and contains three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, respectively. |
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