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| The repetition of sounds, usually consonant sound, at the beginning of words in the same line or in successive lines |
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| A reference to a presumably familiar person, object, place, event, or to a literary, historical, mythological, or biblical passage or work which the author expects will be known by his reader. |
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| The direct address to a deceased or absent person as if that person were present, or to an animal or thing, or an abstract idea or quality as if it could understand you. |
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| a pause or sudden break in a line of poetry |
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| an association or suggestion which a word calls to mind in addition to the dictionary meaning. |
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| repetition of consonant sounds |
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| The literal or dictionary meaning or meanings of a word |
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| A poetic device using passages of talk or conversation |
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| The running over a sentence or thought from one line to another |
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| Unrhymed poetry that does not have a definite rhyme scheme or equal line lengths. |
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| A word or phrase that brings a picture to the readers mind. |
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| Occurs when the rhyming words appear in the same line of poetry |
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| On what word the poet chooses to end a line |
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| Every poem has a literal message first, we need to get to the literal level before we can start considering the symbolic |
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| A figure of speech in which one thing is compared indirectly to another dissimilar thing, without the use of "like" or "as" |
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| The overall emotional atmosphere or feeling in a literary work |
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| The use of words whose sounds imitate natural sounds. (buzz, whirr, moo, hiss) |
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| A figure of speech in which the writer arbitrates human qualities to animals, non human things or ideas |
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| The standpoint in which the literary work is written, (1st person, 2nd person etc.) |
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| The use of the same word or phrase or sentence for emphasis |
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| The repetition of two or more words reasonable close to each other in which the last vowel sound and the last consonant sound are the same |
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| In Poetry, the recurrence or repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a regular pattern or manner |
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| A figure of speech in which the comparison between two unlike things is expressed directly, usually by the means of "like" |
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| The voice we hear in the poem |
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| (couplet, triplet, quatrain, quintet, sestet, septet, octave) a group of lines which constitute a division in the poem. |
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| A figure of speech, a person place or thing that stands for something other than itself. |
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| The central idea of a literary work. |
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