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poem that tells a story 4 line stanzas 2nd and 4th line rhyme colloquials terms irony and double meanings written conversation, narration, or both tells a story, normally about a significant person or event |
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subject general topic, content, and ideas |
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occasion time, place, context, or current situation of the piece what it cam from or what got it started |
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audience group of people to whom it is addressed |
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purpose why was it written |
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speaker voice that tells the story not usually the author |
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dictionary definition of the word |
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| overtone associated with a word (emotions, memories, ideas) |
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words or phrases that create ictures of images in a person's mind |
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comparison between seemingly unlike things without like/as |
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| comparison between seemingly unline things using like/as |
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figurative language that attributes human traits to creatures, ideas, or objects |
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| something used to stand for something else in the context of a literary piece |
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unit used to measure a poem, group of 2-3 unstressed and stressed syllables |
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monometer dimeter trimeter tetrameter pentameter hexameter |
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meter iambic trochee anapest dactyl |
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| repetition of similar consonant sounds |
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| repetition of similar vowel sounds |
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not divided into stanzas has rhythm may or may not have rhyme |
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divided into stanzas, usually of the same length regular rhythm and often a rhyme scheme |
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14 lines iambic pentameter love gaudy and showy words 4 lines-abab, cdcd, efef |
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14 lines iambic pentameter lovesick formal rigid 8 lines-abba 6 lines-variation of cde |
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literary device that relies on words to imitate the sounds they name buzz, ring |
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| reference to history, literature, or art |
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use words that contradict real meaning |
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opposition i am reallly looking forward to dying. |
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exaggeration i just died from laughter |
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belittling truth he's a little tired (he's in a coma) |
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| discrepancy between what is and what is expected |
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| discrepancy between what the audience knows and what speaker knows |
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| 2 words look alike but don't sound alike |
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| rhyme that occurs inside a line |
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