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| Poetry that blends criticism with humor to convey a message, usually through the use of irony and a tone of detached amusement, withering contempt, and implied superiority. |
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| Latin for 'mask'. A fictitious character created by an author to be the speaker of a literary work. |
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| A mode of expression in which the speaker or writer says the opposite of what is really meant. Such as saying 'great story' to a boring story. |
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| A person, place, or thing in a narrative that suggests meaning beyond its literal sense. |
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| Also called a slant rime. A kind of rime in which the linked words share similar consonant sounds but have different vowel sounds, as in reason and rasin, mink and monk. |
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| Word choice or vocabulary. (author chooses as sppropriate for a particular work) |
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| A brief, somtimes indirect reference in a text to person, place, or thing. |
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| A statement that one thing is something else, which in a literal sense, it is not. |
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| A self-contradictory statement that seems to be true. |
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| A comparison of two things, indicated by some connective, usually like, as, or than, or a verb such as resembles. |
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| A word or series of words that refers to any sensory experiences. |
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| The mood or manner of expression in a literary work which conveys an attitude toward the work's subject, which may be playful, scarastic, ironic, sad, solomn, or any other possibly attitude. |
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| A poem intended to teach a moral lesson or impart a body of knowledge. |
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| Verse that has no scheme, no regular meter, rime, or stanzaic pattern. (free verse) |
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| A short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker. |
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| A generic term that describes poetry that is written in a pattern of meter, rime, lines, or stanzas. |
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| An association or additional meaning that a word, image, or phrase may carry apart from it's literal denotation or dictionary definition. |
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| The literal, dictionary meaning of a word. |
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| The repititon of a consonant sound in a line of verse or prose. |
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| The repitition of two or more vowel sounds in successive words, whcih creates a kind of rime. |
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