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| description in which persons, places, or things are employed in a continuous system of equvalents |
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| repitition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of successive words (initial) or inside the words (internal) |
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| a reference to a mythological, literary or historical person, place, or thing |
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| attributing non-human life to an inanimate thing or natural object |
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| involves a direct contrast of structurally parallel words groupings, generally for the purpose of contrast |
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| when the poet addresses by name some inanimate object, abstract quality, deity, or dead/absent individual. |
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| the repitition of the same vowel sound, initially or internally |
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| unrhymed poetry, usually in iambic pentameter |
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| a definite pause within a line of poetry |
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| the repition of a consonant sound within a series of words |
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| two lines, usually rhymed |
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| words that rhyme at the end of lines in poetry |
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| a natural stop at the end of a line in poetry, usually indicated by a period, question mark or exclamation point |
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| the continuation of a sentence or idea from one line of poetry to the next, usually with no punctuation |
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| sounds of words that please the mind and ear, working together with meaning |
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| words that look alike but are pronounced differently |
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| language that deviates from ordinary or standard usage in order to achieve some special meaning or effect (similies and metaphors are common examples) |
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| a metric unit, usually two syllables |
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| poetry that is boud by no conventional patterns |
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| exaggeration for effect, usually outrageous and extravagant |
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| vivid descriptions that produce evocative mental pictures (can be visual or auditory) |
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| words that rhyme in the middle of lines of poetry |
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| a direct comparison without the use of like or as |
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| a specified rhythmic pattern in poetry, usually measured by how many syllables per line |
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| the use of words in which the sounds seem to resemble the sounds they describe |
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| a form of paradoz that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression. THis combination usually serves the purpose of shocking the reader into awareness |
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| a statement that contradicts itself. It may almost seem absurd. Although the statement may seem to be at odds with ordinary experience, it usually turns out to have a oherent meaning and reveals a truth that is normally hidden |
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| inanimate objects or abstract ideas are given human qualities |
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| a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but haev sharply diverse meanings. Puns can have serious as well as humorous uses |
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| the pattern of rhymes created by several lines of poetry, identified with successive letters of the alphabet |
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| the metrical flow of sound in poetry with regulated patterns of accented (stressed) and unaccented (unstressed) syllables |
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| a type of irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it. It's purpose is to injure or hurt |
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| a comparison of two thigns using the words like or as |
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| slant rhyme/ near rhyme/ off rhyme/ partial rhyme |
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| the final consonate of a line of poetry sounds the same, but the vowel sounds different |
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| a 14 line poem in iambic pentameter |
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| a division of a poem into parts, indicated by leaving a blank space between the lines (similar to paragraphs in writing) |
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| a word or object that stands for another word or object |
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