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| the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group |
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| a part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience |
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| unrhymed verse, esp. the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse |
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| an amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements, as in a play, in order to provide temporary relief from tension, or to intensify the dramatic action. |
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| a pair of successive lines of verse, esp. a pair that rhyme and are of the same length. |
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| a minor character who resembles or is in parallel circumstances to a central figure in the play. |
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| the words and actions of the characters of a work of literature have a different meaning for the reader than they do for the characters. |
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| retells in a continuous narrative the life and works of a heroic or mythological person or group of persons. |
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| The writer or speaker describes something through the use of unusual comparisons, for effect, interest, and to make things clearer. |
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| the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature |
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| a figure of speech which is an exaggeration. |
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| any literary reference to the five senses (sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste). |
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| a direct comparison between two or more seemingly unrelated subjects. |
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| a speech made by one person speaking his or her thoughts aloud or directly addressing a reader, audience, or character. |
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| a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms. |
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| gives non-humans and objects human traits and qualities. |
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| word play which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words within a phrase or phrases for rhetorical effect |
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| the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem or in lyrics for music. |
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| a comparison of two unlike things, typically marked by use of "like", "as" or "than". |
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| a dramatic monologue that represents a series of unspoken reflections |
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| something used for or regarded as representing something else; |
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| any event with a sad and unfortunate outcome |
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| I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud |
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| William Wordsworth – This poem explains a field of daffodils in an abstract way. |
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| Alfred Lord Tennyson – This poem describes an Eagle waiting to make a move on its prey. |
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| Hope is the thing with feathers |
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| Emily Dickinson – This poem compares hope with a bird. |
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| Langston Hughes – This poem questions what happens to a dream put off into the future. |
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| Galway Kinnell – This poem describes how the narrator loved to go out and eat blackberries in late September. |
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| Edgar Allen Poe – This poem is a story about how a Raven flies into someone’s window at night. |
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| Lorraine Hansberry – The narrator describes her memories of her childhood summers. |
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| Ernest Lawrence Thayer – This short poem tells the story of what happens at a baseball game. |
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| Basho, Chiyojo – These three haikus are about a perfect evening, a dragonfly catcher, and a tree. |
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| Edgar Allen Poe – This poem describes different types of bells and what their sounds mean. |
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