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| the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginnings of words. |
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| a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work. |
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| a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas as in "Man proposes; God disposes." |
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| a figure of speech in which someone (usually, but not always absent), some abtract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present |
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| the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds |
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| a four-line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet lines one and three feet in lines two and four |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones |
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| a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause |
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| an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy, and pointing to a striking parallel between two dissimilar things |
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| the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words |
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| a two-line stanza, usually with end-ryhmes the same |
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| the techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry |
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| the use of words in a literary work |
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| a poem which is intended primarily to teach a lesson |
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| a poem which employs a dramatic form of some element or elements of dramatic techniques as a means of achieving poetic ends |
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| a sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet's meditations upon death or another solemn theme |
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| a line with a pause at the end |
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| the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next |
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| an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem |
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| a style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear predominate |
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| rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from the pronunciation |
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| a rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed, as "waken" and "forsaken" and "audition" and "rendition" |
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| writing that uses figures of speech (as opposed to literal language or that which is actual or specifically denoted) such as metaphor, irony, and similie |
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| poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical |
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| two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit |
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| a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration |
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| the images of a literary work; the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work |
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| the contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning |
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| rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end |
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| any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings |
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| rhyme that falls on the stressed and concluding syllables of the rhyme-words |
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| a figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like "as," "like," or "than." |
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| the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry |
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| a figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself |
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| the mingling of one metaphor with another immediately following with which the first is incongruous |
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| a non-dramatic poem which tells a story or presents a narrative, whether simple or complex, long or short |
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| the use of words whose sounds suggests their meaning |
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| a form of pardox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression |
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| a situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least to make sense |
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| a similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry |
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| a restatement of an ideas in such a way as to retain the meaning while changing the diction and form |
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| a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics |
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| a group of syllables in verse usually consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables associated with it |
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| a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings |
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| a four-line stanza with any combination of rhymes |
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| a group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza |
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| close similarity or identity of sound between accented syllables occupying corresponding positions in two or more lines of verse |
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| a seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc, used by Chaucer and other medieval poets |
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| the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables |
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| a type of irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it |
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| writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule |
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| a system for describing the meter of a poem by identifying the number and the type(s) of feet per line |
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| a directly expressed comparison; a figure of speech comparing two objects, usually with "like," "as," or "than." |
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| normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem |
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| usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme |
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| Strategy (or rhetorical strategy) |
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| the management of language for a specific effect |
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| the arrangement of materials within a work; the relationship of the parts of a work to the whole; the logical divisions of a work |
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| the mode of expression in language; the characteristic manner of expression of an author |
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| something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else |
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| a form of metaphor which in mentioning a part signifies the whole |
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| the ordering of words into patterns or sentences |
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| a stanza of three lines in which each line ends with the same rhyme |
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| a three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc. |
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| the main thought expressed by a work |
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| the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses meaning |
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| the opposite of hyperbole |
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| a nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain |
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