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| an audible pause that breaks up a line of verse |
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| poem usually set to music, often a story told in a song |
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| repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences |
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| word or grouping of words that imitates the sound it's describing |
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| literary device giving the spectator an item of information that at least one of the characters in the narrative is unaware of |
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| irony that is produced intentionally by speakers |
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| applied use of symbols, or iconic representations that carry particular conventional meanings |
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| a term denoting a part of something is used to refer to the whole thing, or vice versa |
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| uses the words "like" or "as" to compare 2 ideas |
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| repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words |
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| a pair of lines of verse; usually consists of 2 lines that rhyme and have the same meter |
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| commonly used for epic and narrative poetry; refers to poems constructed from a sequence of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines |
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| was originally used for a type of poetic metre, but is also used for a poem of mourning,which is a form of lyric poetry |
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| a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation |
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| In verse, many meters use it as the basic unit in their description of the underlying rhythm of a poem; consists of a certain number of syllables forming part of a line of verse; described by the character and number of syllables it contains |
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