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| a passing or casual reference |
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| the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter |
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| a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter, as in for the nonce. |
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| any light, simple song, especially one of sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody |
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| unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse |
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| the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning |
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| a simultaneous combination of tones conventionally accepted as being in a state of repose |
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| a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length. |
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| a foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short in quantitative meter, or one stressed followed by two unstressed in accentual meter, as in gently and humanly |
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| a word that names or signifies something specific: “Wind” is the denotation for air in natural motion. “Poodle” is the denotation for a certain breed of dog. |
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| style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words |
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| mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. |
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| noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style |
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| speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech |
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| a group of two or more syllables in which one syllable has the major stress, forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm |
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| verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern |
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| major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables |
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| an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.” |
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| a foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter |
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| a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable |
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| a figure of speech, such as a simile or metaphor |
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| the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively |
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| the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning |
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| a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet. |
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| a short poem of songlike quality |
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| it is a comparison to two things with out using "like" or "as" that "directly states something is another such as " All the world's a stage" it uses the word is to directly state that the world is a stage. |
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| a metaphor that continues into the sentences that follow |
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| a metaphor that suqqests a comparision rather than stating it directly |
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| the rhythmic element as measured by division into parts of equal time value |
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| a poem that tells a story and has a plot |
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| a tone on the eighth degree from a given tone. |
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| a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion |
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| the formation of a word, as cuckoo or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent. |
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| the narrator of or a character in a literary work, sometimes identified with the author. |
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| the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure |
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| a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes. |
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| a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza; chorus. |
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| A term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes. |
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| a perfect rhyme, such as goat and boat. |
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| a rhyme of the last word (or the last syllable) of two or more lines of verse. |
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| rhyme that occurs in a single line of verse |
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| two words that have only their final consonant sounds and no preceding vowel or consonant sounds in common (such as stopped and wept, or parable and shell |
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| A partial or imperfect rhyme, often using assonance or consonance only, as in dry and died or grown and moon |
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| rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours. |
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| the pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences, as rhyme royal, ababbcc. |
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| movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like |
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| end of the line continues onto the next without punctuation |
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| the last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit. |
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| a poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, but in different order, the envoy using the six words again, three in the middle of the lines and three at the end. |
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