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| A word or series of words that refer to any sensory experience. Literal recreation of physical experience. |
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| The collective set of images in a work |
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| A metaphor that uses neither connectives nor the verb to be. |
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| The combining of two or more incompatible metaphors |
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| A direct address to someone or something. |
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| An ironic figure of speech that deliberately describes something in a way that is less than the case |
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| Figure of speech in which the name of a thing is substituted for that of another closely associated. |
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| The use of a significant part of a thing to stand for the whole |
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| A statement that at first strickes one as self contradictory but actually has sense. |
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| A recurring pattern of two or more lines of verse |
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| Any recurrent pattern of rime |
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| A word, phrase, line, stanza repeated at intervals |
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| A song that tells a story |
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| Most common pattern for ballad |
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| ballad not meant for singging |
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| a light but definite pause within a line of poetry |
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| a kind of verse in which both the number of syllables and the number of stresses are countd and arranged in a pattern |
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| traditional verse form requiring certain predetermined elements of structure- a stanza pattern, set meter, or predetermined line length. |
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| a kind of verse in which only the number of syllables are counted |
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| a kind of verse in which only the number of stresses are counted. |
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| what we call a line when it ends in a full pause--usually indicated by some mark of punctuation. |
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| a term for free verse invented by Charles Olson in his "Projective Verse" essay |
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| the study of metrical structures in poetry. |
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| a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc. |
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| a poem composed of unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| a fourteen line stanza rhymed abbaabbacdecd |
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| a short poem ending in a witty or ingenious turn of thought, to which the rest of the composition is intended to lead up |
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| a poem in which a poet prints words in a block like prose paragraph instead of in more traditional lines. |
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| If the final words at the ends of two lines of poetry are go and slow this would be an example of |
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| If the final words at the ends of two lines of poetry are give and love this would be an example of |
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| if the final words at the ends of two lines of poetry are lad and lid this would be an example of |
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| the consonants m, n, and ng are called |
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| the consonants r and l are called |
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| the consonants s, f, th, and v are called |
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| the repetition of the same consont at the beginning of words and syllables is known as |
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| the repetition of the same vowel within a line is called |
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| when the sound of words produce a harsh or dicordant effet, it is called |
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| when the sounds of words produce a nice sound it is called |
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| either a rime of one-syllable words (fox and socks) or-- a rime on the stressed final syllables (con-trive and sur-vive) |
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| a rime of two or more syllables with stress on a syllable other than the last (turtle and fertile) |
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| a word or sequence of words that refers to any sensory experience |
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| a school or movement of poetry originated by Ezra Pound and H.D., which usually produced short poems rich in imagery |
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| combining two figures of speech in an awkward way that results in unintentional humor |
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| the term used by T.S. Eliot to describe the use of a natural object to convey some inner state or emotion or mood |
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| a statement that at first strikes us as self-contradictory or illogical but that on reflection makes some sense |
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| a four lined stanza rimed a b c b, or a, b, a, b, tending to fall into lines of 8,6, 8, 6 |
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| a short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker; often in the first person |
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| a poem whose main purpose is to tell a story |
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| a poem written as a speech made by a character (other that the author) at some decisive moment |
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| words that express ideas or concepts; they don't refer to the senses |
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| an indirect reference to any person, place, or thing--fictious, historical, or actual |
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| a type of poetry written to state a message or teach a body of knowledge |
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| a kind of comic poetry that generally expresses outrage at something or conveys a message |
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| a fictitious character created by the author |
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| a direct address to someone or something. |
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| a song that tells a story |
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| a practice used to describe rhythmic patterns in a poem by separating the metrical feet, counting the syllables, marking. |
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| a description in which the literal events consistently point to a parallel sequence of ideas, values, or other recognizable abstractions. |
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| personal experience. Wah, i hate my life and what not. |
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| a recurring symbol, character, landscape, or event found in myth and literature across different cultures and eras, universal. |
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| traditional narrative of anonymous authorship that arises out of a culture's oral tradition. heroic figures. like a legend, but with no historical evidence. |
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| an unintentional lapse from the sublime to the ridiculous or trivial. An attempt to capture the grand that comes off as inflated. |
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| any established technique in literature that is commonly understood by authors and readers |
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| a far-flung and often extended metaphor comparing dissimilar things. |
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| the inversion or normal word order, usually done for the purposes of meter. |
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| a negatively applied term to a literary work that tries to convey great feeling but fails to give the reader sufficient grounds for sharing it. |
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