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| a brief reference to a commonly known historical/literary figure, event, or object; this indirect device works on the knowledge & memory of the reader, tapping associations and emotional resonance |
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| rhetorical device of repeating the same word or words at the start of two or more lines of poetry |
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| repetition of vowel sounds - when it occurs at the end of lines, assonance rhym doesn't have the same consonate sounds, thus it is not full rhyme |
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| a pause in a line of poetry created not by the meter, but by the natural speaking rhythm, sometimes coinciding with punctuation |
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| the choice of individual words and the pattern of words |
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| a line of poetry in which the sense and grammatical construction continue on to the next line. The lack of completion creates pressure to move rapidly to the closure promised in the next line. |
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| figure of speech in which one says more than one means, overstating and exagerating - used for humor or to heighten another effect |
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| the repeated pattern of stressed & unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
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| the atmosphere suggested by the setting & dicition of the piece --> conjures up an emotional response on the reader's part |
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| principles of versification, especially meter, line length, rhyme scheme, & stanza form |
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| technique presenting the continuous flow of images, ideas, thoughts, and feelings of a character as they run through his/her mind |
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| the figurative use of a narrower term for a wider one or vice versa; the part tsignifies the whoole or the whole (signifies)the part |
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| the author's attitude toward the audience or the subject |
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| This term includes all the elements of poetic composition, including accent, rhythm, meter, rhyme, verse form, stanza form, assonance, onomatopoeia, & alliteration |
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| (rhetorical device): an absent or imaginary person or an abstraction is directly adressed as though present |
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| 1+ words repeated at intervals in a poem --usually at the end of a stanza. It may have slight variations *sometimes of great significance |
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