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| a story in which the characters, settings, and events stand for abstract or moral concepts |
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| repition of consoant sounds in words that are close to one another |
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| a reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or popular culture |
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| two unstressed sylables followed by a stressed syllable |
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| a concise, sometimes witty saying that expresses a principal, truth, or obervation about life |
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| a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addressed an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something that non-human as if it were presentand capable of reponding |
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| the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonat sounds in words that are close together |
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| a song or songlike poem that tells a story |
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| poetry in unrhymed iamic pentameter |
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| a pause or break with in a line of poetry, usually indicated by the natural rhythm of the language |
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| a subdivision in along poem, corresponding to a chapter in a book |
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| a fanciful and elaborate figure of speech that make a suprising connection between two seemingly dissimilar things |
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| all meanings, assosations, or emotion, that have become to be attached to a word |
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| the repitition of final consonant sounds after different vowel sounds |
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| two consecutive lines of potery that rhyme |
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| a stressed syllable followed by toe unstressed syllables |
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| the literal, dictionary definition of a word |
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| a writer's or speaker's cjoice of words |
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| a poem found in a play that serves to establish mood, reveal character, or advance action |
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| a poem that mourns the death of a person or laments something lost |
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| a lin eof peotry in which the meter and the meaning conclude the with the end of the line |
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| a rhyming of tow or more lines of verse |
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| a rhyming of tow or more lines of verse |
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| a long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society |
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| an adjective or other descriptive phrase that is regularly used to characterize a person, place, or thing |
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| figurative language/ figure of speech |
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| a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another, dissimilar thing, and is not meant to be understood on a literal level |
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| a group of syllables taken as a unit of poetic meter |
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| a rhymed pair of iambic pentameter lines |
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| a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create comic effect |
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| a line of poetry made up of five stressed and unstressed syllables |
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| language that appeals to the senses |
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| two or more words rhyme within one line of verse |
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| poetry that focuses on expressing emotions or thoughts, rather than telling a story |
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| a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things without using like, as, than, or resembles |
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| 17th century poetry of John Donne, Andrew Marvell- it is abstract and intellectual, and detached, ingenious, obscures imagery, philosophical mediatation, verbal wit, and rough-sounding meter |
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| generally regular pattern of stressed and unstresses syllables of poetry |
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| a figure of speech in which something closely related to a thing or suggested by it is substituted for the thing itself... i.e. the king "the crown" |
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| mood or feeling in a literary piece |
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| poems(including ballads, epics, and verse romances) that tell stories |
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| an eight line stanza or poem or the first eight lines of a Petrarchen sonnet |
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| a complex, generally long lyric poem on a serious subject |
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| the use of a word whose sound indicates or suggests its meaning |
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| an eight line stanza in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abababcc |
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| a figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory or incongruous ideas |
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| the passing on from one generation to another of songs, chants, proverbsm and other verbal compositions within and between non-literate cultures or the accumulated stck of works thus transmitted by word of mouth |
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| an apparent contridiction that is actually true |
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| a type of literature that depicts country life in idyllic, idealized terms |
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| a kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman or nonliving thing or quality is talked about as if it were human or had a life |
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| a four-line stanza or poem or group a of four lines unified by a rhyme scheme |
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| a repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines |
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| the repition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem |
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| the pattern in which the rhymed line-endings are arranged in a poem or stanza |
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| the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language |
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| a line of poetry that does not contain a pause or conclusion at the end, but rahter continues on to the next line |
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| a six line stanza or poem or the last siz lines of a Petrarchan sonnet |
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| a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using like, than, or as |
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| a fourteen line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has on eof the several rhyme schemes: Petrarchan, Shakepearean, or Spenserian |
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| sonnet with a structure of octave, which presents the problem, poses a question, or expresses an idea and sestet- resolves, answeres, or drives hom. Octave rhyme scheme- abbaabba and sestet rhyme scheme- cdecde |
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| the quatrains (expresses related ideas or examples and a couplet (poet's conclusion or message). Rhyme scheme adad cdcd efef gg |
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| three quatrians and a couple and rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee |
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| the imaginary voice or persona assumed by the author of a poem |
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| a nine-line stanza with the ryme scheme ababbcbcc |
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| a group of conscutive lines in a poem that form a single unit |
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| a person, place, thing, or event that stands for both itself and for something beyond itself |
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| a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole |
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| a triplet or tranza of three lines in which each line ends with the same rhyme |
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| an interlocking, three line stanza form with the rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc ded and so on |
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| an interlocking, three line stanza form with the rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc ded and so on |
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| the attititude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject or a character |
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| stressed followed by an unstressed syllable |
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