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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 existing 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 as in "He Clasps the Crag with Crooked hands." |
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| a reference in a poem to a historical or literary character, event, idea, or place outside the work. |
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| two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one, as in New RoCHELLE |
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| a word with the opposite or nearly the opposite meaning of another word |
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| repetition of similar internal vowel sounds of final syllables, as in break/fade, mice/light, told/woe |
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| a songlike, narrative poem traditionally characterized by a recurring refrain and four-line stanzas rhyming abcb |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| a pause or break within a line of verse. From the Latin for "a cutting off," a caesura can occur at almost any point in the line |
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| vivid, graphic images that appeal strongly to the senses, as opposed to generalized abstractions |
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| the associations and attitudes called up by a word, as opposed to its denotation or straight, literal definition aroma vs. odor |
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| repetition of similar sound sin the final consonants of words, as in torn/burn or add/read |
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| two rhymed lines of verse |
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| one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables,as in BALtimore |
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| the literal definition of a word |
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| a poem of mourning and lamentation |
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| a rhyme in which the last words 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. |
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| a segment of verse composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. examples of metric feet: dactyl, anapest, iamb, spondee, trochee |
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| poetry with no strong, regular pattern of meter or rhyme |
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| a tradit ional japanese poetry form of three lines of five, seven, and five syllables each |
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| a figure of speech using extreme exaggeration |
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| a two-syllable foot with the stress on the last syllable, as in DeTROIT |
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| the characteristic language style of a person or a group of people |
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| a literal or concrete detail that speaks to the physical senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste or touch |
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| a comparison between two essentially unlike things without like or as |
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| an underlying regular beat in a poem |
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| a figure of speech in which a term closely related 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, such as pop, hiss, or buzz |
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| from the Italian for "eighth rhyme" a finely crafted stanza consisting of eight iambic pentameter lines with 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 with the margins justified like prose |
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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 ends 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 unlike things, using "as" of "like" or "as if" |
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| an elaborately crafted fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter |
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| contains an eight-line stanza, or octave, with an abbaabba rhyme scheme, followed by a sestet of cdcdee or cdecde. The octave often raises a question or states a predicament or proposition that is answered in the sestet |
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| generally arranged as three quatrains and a couplet with the typical rhyme scheme of abab/cdcd/efef/gg |
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| uses three quatrains and a couplet like the Shakespearean sonnet but employs a linking rhyme scheme more similar to the Petrarchan sonnet: abab/bcbc/cdcd/ee |
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| a metrical foot of two stressed syllables, as in HONG KONG |
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| a grouping of lines that traditionally marks the completion of a metrical pattern within a poem |
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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 |
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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" "wheels" means "car" and "hired hands" means "hired people" |
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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 the stress on the first syllable TROchee TRIPS from LONG to SHORT |
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