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| repetition of the first consonant sound |
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| opponent, rival, competitor, enemy |
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| repetition of the first vowel sound |
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| a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes |
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| a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters |
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| an illiterate population can learn and pass values and traditions through oral tradition |
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| the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman |
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| 5 sets of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
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occurs in the middle of a line.
example: Whiles all the night through fog-smoke white |
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| the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite |
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| a comparison using like or as |
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| a comparison without using like or as |
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long narrative poem presenting the adventures on a grand scale-- everything is bigger than life.
-Has a centric heroic figure
-It has self contained stories but build together
-beginnings of a race or nation of people
-contains supernatural elements
-never ending battle between good and bad |
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| a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear |
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| exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally |
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| leading character in any fictional text |
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| an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers |
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| ridicule of weaknesses, vices, follies of groups types institutions, in order to change them! |
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