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| A natural pause or break in poetry |
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| Unified group of lines in poetry |
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| Repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words |
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| repetition of vowel sounds |
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| Repetition of consonant sounds |
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| A song that tells a story. A narrative poem consisting of quatrains of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter. |
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| Unrhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even-numbered syllables bearing the accents. |
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| passage of literature or poetry in which the writer disrupts the narrative and writes a lengthy passage describing, representing, or "translating" another type of art such as a painting, a piece of architecture or sculpture, or music |
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| Poetry based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses rather than the artificial constraints of metrical feet |
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| A lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to certain definite patterns. Usually about love |
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| long, often elaborate stanzaic poem of varying line lengths and sometimes intricate rhyme schemes dealing with a serious subject matter and treating it reverently |
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| recognizable pulse, or "recurrence," which gives a distinct beat to a line and also gives it a shape |
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| recognizable though varying pattern of stressed syllables alternating with syllables of less stress. Compositions written in meter are said to be in verse |
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| a lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed syllable |
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| opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction |
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| an artificial, or improbable, character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or untangle a plot |
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| final chapter at the end of a story that often serves to reveal the fates of the characters |
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| a character that contrasts second character that highlights certain qualities of that first character |
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| opening to a story that establishes the setting and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information |
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| Pride leads to the downfall of the character |
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| brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art |
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| a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning |
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| when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed |
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| substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener |
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| exaggeration or overstatement |
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| comparison of two UNLIKE things |
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| substituting a word for another word closely associated with it |
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| giving human qualities to animals or objects |
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| attribution of human traits to nature or inanimate objects |
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| comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
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| using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning |
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| when one uses a part to represent the whole |
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| The choice of a particular word as opposed to others |
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| Brief, Clever, usually memorable statement |
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| vehement censure in greek/roman poetry |
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| syntactiv reversal of order |
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| Seemingly true, leads to contradiction |
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| Understatement for effect |
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| Short amusing story, always presented as truth |
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| Something difficult solved in plot through trivial means |
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| novel written in a series of documents |
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| without character thoughts/no bias |
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| one or more character thoughts |
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| Continuous flow of sense; loose interior monologue |
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| Written in form of letter |
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| The perspective of the narrative voice |
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| one character speaking from personal perspective |
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| written through sense of one character |
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| Ridicules society, intent of shaming |
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| Secondary plot strand from main, often connects time, place and thematic significance |
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| a rhetorical pause at the end of a line |
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| no syntactical break from line to line |
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| a pair of successive lines in verse |
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| A stanza or poem of 4 lines |
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| The last 6 lines of a sonnet in the Italian form considered as a unit |
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| A phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song |
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| inharmonious or harsh sounds |
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| repeating of a word in a line or poem |
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| Identity in sound of some part |
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| Similar sounds in two words at end |
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| Rhyme at the end of a line |
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| rhyme involving two syllables |
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| rhyme that occurs in a single line of verse |
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| dramatic shift from question to answer |
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| Dramatic Dialogue/Monologue |
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| offers great insight into feelings of speaker |
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| expresses personal emotion or feelings |
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