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| a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication |
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| the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group, as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable, as in each to all. |
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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 |
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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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| an association or idea suggested by a word or phrase; implication |
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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 |
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| a word that names or signifies something specific |
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| style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words |
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| a 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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| a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level |
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| a group of syllables constituting a metrical unit of a verse. |
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| verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern |
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| a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons. |
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| obvious and intentional exaggeration |
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| a metrical foot or unit of measure consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. |
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| a line of poetry made up of five iambs |
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| form; appearance; semblance |
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| language that appeals to the senses |
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| a contrast between expectations and reality- between what is said and what is meant |
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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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| poetry that focuses on expressing private emotions or thoughts |
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| states that one thing is another |
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| a metaphor that is developed over several lines writing or even through an entire poem or paragraph |
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| metaphor that compares two things without being obvious |
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| a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry |
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| any work of literature, written or oral, that tells a story |
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| an eight-line stanza or poem or the first eight lines of an italian, or petrarchan sonnet |
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| a complex, generally lengthy lyric poem on a serious subject |
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| the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning |
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| the narrator of or a character in a literary work, sometimes identified with the author. |
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| a kind of literature that depicts rustic life in idealized terms |
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| a four-line stanza or poem, or a group of four lines unified by a rhyme scheme |
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| a repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines |
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| half rhymes, slant rhymes or imperfect rhymes |
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| when the later part of the word or phrase is identical sounding to that of another |
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| occur at the end of lines |
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