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| when the same letter or sound is at the beginning of closely connetcted words. |
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| a statement that refers to something without directly mentioning it |
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| when two or more words close to eachother repeat the same vowel sound but have different consenants |
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| a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas |
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| a break between words near the middle of the line |
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| two lines of verse in the same meter joined by rhyme |
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| the distinctive tone of an author's writing |
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| poems with lines ending with words that sound the same |
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| a long poem narrating adventures of a heroic figure |
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| extreme exaggeration used to make a point |
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| poetry that does not rhyme or meter |
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| visually descriptive figurative language |
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| expression of one's meaning by using words that mean the opposite |
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| when the opposite of what you expect to happen, happens |
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| when the audience knows something the character does not |
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| a form of poetry that expresses personal feelings |
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| comparison between two things |
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| a reoccuring pattern of stressed syllables in lines of set length |
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| a lyric poem addressed to someone or something |
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| repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a poem |
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a literary device that uses long and short patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables
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| the use of humor, irony, exaggeration to expose peoples' stupidity or vices |
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| comparison between two different things using like or as |
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| a poem of 14 lines using any formal rhyme scheme |
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| a group of lines talking about the same thing |
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| a main idea or underlying meaning of literary work |
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| the attitude towards a subject from the narrator to the audience |
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| likeness to the truth, everything has to be realistic |
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| a turn in thought or emotion |
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| a statement that is overused |
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| words, things, or ideas which a word often keeps company but which it does not denote. Figurative |
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| a pair of successive rhyming lines, usually the same length |
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| what a word points to, names or refers to |
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| what a word points to, names or refers to |
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| the choice and use of words in writing |
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| a self-contradictory phrase or sentence |
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portraying an idealized version of country life
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| the aspect of a character that is percieved by others |
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| the attribution of a human characteristic to something nonhuman |
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| literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm |
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| written language in it's ordinary form |
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| written language in it's ordinary form |
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| stop oneself from doing something |
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| resources used by poets to convey and reinforce the meaning or experience of poetry through the skillful use of sound |
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| a thing that represents something else |
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| the presentation of something being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is |
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