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| a symbolic work in which characters, events, or settings represent moral qualities. The characters of an allegory are often abstractions personified. The meaning below the surface in an allegorical work may be religiously, morally, politically, or personally significant. |
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| the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words. |
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| a reference in a poem to a historical or literary character, event, idea, or place outside the work. Allusion serves to tap indirectly into an association already existing in the reader’s mind. |
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| unstressed, unstressed, stressed |
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| a word that means the opposite of nearly the opposite of another word |
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| repetition of similar internal vowel sounds of final syllables. |
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| a songlike narrative poem traditionally characterized by a recurring refrain and four-line stanza rhyming abcb. |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter. Commonly used for long poems. |
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| a pause or break within a line of a verse. Can occur at almost any point in a line. |
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| vivid, grafic images that appeal strongly to the senses, as oppossed to generalized abstractions. |
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| the associations of attitudes called up by a word, as opposed to its denotation or straight literal definition. Taking words that you know what they mean and the author puts a different view on it. |
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| repetition of similar sounds in the final consonants of words |
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| two rhymed lines of a verse. |
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| stressed, unstressed, unstressed (Baltimore) |
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| the literal definition of a word; its stripped-down meaning, devoid of connotation. |
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| a poem of mourning and lamentatio. most often sustained, formal poems with a meditative, solemn mood. |
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| a rhyme which the last word of two or more lines of poetry rhyme with one another. |
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| a line of poetry that ends with a period, colon, or semicolon. |
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| the continuation of a sentence in a poem so that it spills over from one line to the next. |
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| a long narrative poem that speaks to the listener in an elevated style and embodies the central values of a civilization. The traditional epic recorded the adventures of a hero and focused on a high point in history. |
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| a segment of a verse composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
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| poetry with no strong, regular pattern of meter or rhyme |
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| a traditional Japanese poetry form of three lines of five, seven, and five syllables each. Offers serious, profound insight into a captured moment in time, often drawing associations from nature's seasons, elements and animals. |
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| A figure of speech using extreme exaggeration. Often expressed as a simile. |
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| stress on the last syllables |
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| characteristic language style of a person or group of people. Can refer to a religonal speech or dialect, or to the specialized vocabulary or jargon of a group. |
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| a literal or concrete detail that speaks to the physical senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch. |
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| a comparison between two essentially unlike things. The speaker treats one thing as it is another, without the use of like or as. |
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| an underlying regular beat in a poem. the pattern created in a line by the structure of the poem |
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| is meter with three stressed syllables |
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| meter with four stressed syllables |
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| meter with five stressed syllables |
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| meter with six stressed syllables |
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| a figure of speech in which a term closely related to to something serves as its substitute. |
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| an elaborately crafted, stately poem fit for solemn subjects |
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| the use of a word that sounds like its meaning. |
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| from the Italian for "eight rhyme," a finely crafted stanza consisting of eight iambic pentameter lines wiht the rhyme pattern abababcc |
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| the repetition of similar or identical structures within phrases or sentences. |
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| figurative language that endows something nonhuman with human qualities. |
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| a poem written witht the margins justified like prose. |
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| a four-line poetic stanza. |
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| the same line (or group of lines) repeated at intervals in a poem. |
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| echo effect produced when a writer repeats the same sounds at the end of words. |
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| a system for charting the underlying beat, or meter, of a literary work. |
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| a comparison between two essentially like things using as or like |
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| an elaborately crafted fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter. |
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| contains eight-line stanza, or octave, with an abbaabba rhyme sceme, followed by a sestet (six-line stanza) of cdcdee. the octave often raises the question or states a predicament or proposition that is answered in the sestet. |
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| generally arranged as three quatrains (four-line stanzas) and a couplet (two lines), with the typical rhyme sceme of abab/cdcd/efef/gg. |
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| generally arranged as three quatrains (four-line stanzas) and a couplet (two lines), with the typical rhyme sceme of abab/cdcd/efef/gg. |
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| uses three quatrians and a couplet like the Shakespearean sonnet, but employs a linking rhyme sceme more similar to the Petrarchan sonnet. abab/bcbc/cdcd/ee |
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| metrical foot of two stressed syallables. |
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| an accent that makes one syllable stand out from the others in a word or phrase. |
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| an object or action that has acquired a meaning beyond itself. Symbols are often used to articulate the themes of a poem. |
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| a figure of speech that uses the part to stand for the whole or the whole to stand for the part |
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| a word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word. |
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| a metrical rhythm with stress on the first syllable. |
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