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| poetry with a plot, tells a story |
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| subjective and emotional, has no plot, regular rhyme scheme and of limited length |
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| central or dominant idea in a piece of literature |
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| persona or character speaking in poem, distinct from author |
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| feeling or effect in a work created by a writer’s use of words |
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| a mode of expression, through words or events, conveying a reality different from and usually opposite to appearances or expectations |
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| saying one thing but meaning another |
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| the reader or audience knows something one of the characters does not |
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| the difference between what happens and what was expected to happen |
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| word choice of the author |
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| dictionary meaning of the word, with no particular emotional associations |
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| meaning of a word that suggests beyond its literal, explicit meaning, carrying emotional associations, judgments, or opinions |
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| the use of words to create a picture in the reader’s mind |
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| language that is not literal, that is meant to create a special effect |
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| specific devices using non-literal language designed to create a special effect |
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| a phrase combining two seemingly opposite or incompatible elements |
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references to literature, history, mythology or the Bible that are not recognized or
credited in the text |
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addressing an absent character or object directly, when they are not around or
cannot comprehend |
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| object or event that stands for itself as well as for something else |
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| a comparison between two unlike things not using “like” or “as” |
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a metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout
a work |
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| a comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as” |
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figurative language that depends on intentional overstatement; deliberate
exaggeration, often done to provide emphasis or humor |
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| word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated |
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| a part of an object or process is used to represent the whole |
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| statement that is true even though it seems to be saying two opposite things |
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| giving non-human objects human characteristics |
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| the usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more meanings |
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-- this type of metaphor draws upon a wide range of knowledge, from the commonplace
to the esoteric, and its comparisons are unusual and elaborately sustained |
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| making something less important that it actually is to create effect |
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| terms dealing with the sound of poetry |
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| repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words |
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| repetition of consonant sounds for effect |
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| the reoccurrence of initial consonant sounds |
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| the grating of incompatible sounds |
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| words whose sounds resembles what it describes |
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| rhyme is at the end of a line |
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| rhyme is within the line of poetry, not at the end |
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| rhyme whose sounds match perfectly |
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| Imperfect/Slant/Off/Half/Approximate rhyme |
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| rhyme that is a partial, not perfect match in sounds |
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| rhyme that ends with stressed syllables |
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| rhyme that ends with unstressed syllables |
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| the study of poetry’s meter |
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| a pattern of reoccurring sounds that gives poetry its distinctive sound |
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| a unit of meter consisting of usually two syllables but sometimes three |
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| an unstressed stressed foot |
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| a stressed unstressed foot |
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| that does not use regular meter or consistent rhyme |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| a fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter |
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| 3 quatrains and a couplet |
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| a poem about death, usually memorializing someone |
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| long narrative poem, elevated style, heroes, “sing in me muse” |
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usually a lyric poem of moderate length, with a serious subject, an elevated style, and an
elaborate stanza pattern, praising someone or thing |
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| a poem with only two rhymes |
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| unit within a larger poem |
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| a pair of lines rhyming consecutively |
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the device in poetry of continuing the sense and grammatical construction of a
verse from one line into the next |
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