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| A poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. A lyric poem may resemble a song in form or style. |
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| Poetry in which one or more characters speak |
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| Who is speaking in the poem |
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| The attitude a speaker takes towards their subject |
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| The speaker or voice of a literary work |
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| A contrast or an incongruity between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen. |
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| a poem that shares many features with a speech from a play: one person speaks, and in that speech there are clues to his/her character, the character of the implied person or people that s/he is speaking to, the situation in which it is spoken and the story that has led to this situation |
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| A writer’s choice of words |
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| the choice of lexis, syntax and pronounciation people use in different communicative situations |
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| The emotion or association that a word or phrase may arouse |
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| A figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another, or by substituting a more descriptive word for the more common or usual word that would be expected. |
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| A figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as." |
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| A figure of speech in which nonhuman things or abstract ideas are given human attributes |
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| When a poet refers to something by one of its characteristics rather than its name. |
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| A form of the metaphor in which the part mentioned signifies the whole. |
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| A form of irony in which something is intentionally represented as less than it is in fact. |
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| A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis. |
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| The repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that usually appear close to each other in a poem. |
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| A rhyme on a stressed syllable |
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| A rhyme made up of a stressed syllable followed by one or more unstressed syllables |
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| Rhyme that happens within a line of a poem |
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| Rhymes which are not exact repetitions, but are close enough to resonate |
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| The repetition of the initial letter or sound in two or more closely associated words or stressed syllables. |
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| The repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually close together, in a group of words |
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| Agreeable sound, especially in the phonetic quality of words. |
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| A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds |
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| The use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning. |
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