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| language which expresses ideas or generaltities |
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| language which expresses particular objects or entities |
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| the specific dictionary definintion of a word |
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| the general emotional assosiations carried by a word |
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| language which says exactly what it means |
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| a non-literal use of language |
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| a specific example of figurative language |
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| a DIRECT comparison of two unlike things. Similies use "like" "as" "as if" |
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| an IMPLIED comparison between two unlike things. does not use like or as to compare. |
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the giving of human characteristics to inanimate objects or abstractions.
(the wind whispered.) |
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the adressing of an absent person, an inanimate object or abstraction as if it were present and hearing.
(Death, be not proud. Goodmorning, starshine.) |
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the technique o fusing a part of something to represent the whole
(all hands on deck.) |
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| the substitution of an object for a word or idea closely associated with it. (The white house announced..) |
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| a conscious exaggeration fo effect. (I haven't seen him for ages.) |
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| an understatement achieved by stating something in the negative of its opposite. (breaking the record for swimming was no small feat.) |
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| a person, action, object or situation used to stand for something else |
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| reference to a historical person, place, event, or to a famous literary work or figure. The reference is usually so well known that the well read person would be expected to recognize it. |
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| The representation of sense experience through language. While the most common images are visula, poetic images may appealto our senses of taste (gustatory), touch (tactile), smell(olfactory) and hearing(auditory)as well. |
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| the similarity or likeness of sound existing between two words |
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| identical sounding sylables (letters preceding the vowels should be different) (fun, run) |
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| sounds that are similar but not exactly identical (also called inexact or eye rhyme) (moon, groan) |
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rymed words come at the end of two or more lines(a very very old house i KNOW
And ever so many people GO) |
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| Rymed words occur within the same line of poetry (Once i was dreary and also weak and weary) |
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| Occurs when ONE SYLLABLE of a word rhymes with another word (light, bright) |
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| Occurs when atleast TWO SYLLABLES of a word rhyme with another word (aslo called double rhyme) (awful, lawful) |
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| Occurs when three syllables of a word rhyme with another word (glorius, victorius) |
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the patter or sequence in which the rhyme occurs. The first sound is represented by a, the second by b, etc. When the first sound is repeated, it is also designated as a EXAMPLE:
The res rose whispers of passion, a
and the white rose breaths of love, b
oh, the red rose is a falcon, a
and the white rose is a dove. b |
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| the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllabes in a line of poetry. |
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| the repetition of the initial sound or letter in two or more words of a line or verse.(the fair breez flew, the wite foam flew) |
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| the repetition ofthe same or similar vowels sounds in two or more words (the dog fox rolls on his lolling tongue) |
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| the repition of consonant sounds in a line of verse |
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| the use of a word to represent or imitate natural sounds (hiss, buzz) |
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| the repition of one or more phrases or lines at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza |
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| a poem that tells a story |
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| a poem meant to reveal the speakers thoughts or feelings |
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| Folk, traditional, or popular ballad |
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| an anonymous narrative poem, meant to be sung which has been transmitted orally from generation to generation. |
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| a narrative poem by a known author written in consious imitation of the characteristics of the folk ballad |
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| a 14 line lyric poem, usually in iambic pentameter, which employs a definite rhyme scheme |
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| italian or petrarchan sonnet |
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| sonnet composed of an octave (8lines) and a sestet (6 lines) with a rhyme scheme of abba abba, ode, ode (or some variation in the sestet) |
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| English or shakespearean sonnet |
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| sonnet composed of three Quatrains (set of 4 lines) and a couplet (2lines) with a rhyme scheme of abab odod efef gg |
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| English or shakespearean sonnet |
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| sonnet composed of three Quatrains (set of 4 lines) and a couplet (2lines) with a rhyme scheme of abab odod efef gg |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| poetry employing no definite meter and no rhyme |
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| a group of lines of poetry treated as a unit |
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| a seemingly self-contradictory statement which, upon examination, is true |
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| a self contradictory phrase (death-in-life) |
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| the use of pleasant harmonius sounds |
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| use of harsh, unharmonious sounds |
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| a rythmic unit in a line of poetry |
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| to study the meter of a poem by marking off its accented and unaccented syllables and then noting the number and kind of "feet" present |
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| the possibility of 2 or more meanings of a word or phrase, orten used consciously in poetry (sleight-of-foot tricks) where foot means a metrical unit as well as a part of the body |
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