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| a comparison of two unlike things that uses the words like or as |
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| when overstatement of exaggeration is used to cause dramatic effect |
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| the expressive qualities that distinguishes an authors work |
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| a direct comparison between two unlike things |
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| when animals or inhuman things are given human characteristics |
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| a poem's organization of words, images, ideas, and lines |
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| the "paragraphs" of poetry |
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| descriptive language used to represent objects, feelings, and thoughts |
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| the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
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| the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that can establish the rhythm in a poem |
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| the basic unit of measuring meter |
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| when two words in the same line rhyme |
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| occurs at the end of lines |
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| occurs when the sounds of words are similar but not identical |
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| the pattern of end rhyme in a poem |
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| the analysis of the meter in a line of poetry aka the dividing of verse (lines of poetry) into feet by indicating accents and counting syllables to determine the meter of a poem |
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| when a poet takes a sentence and runs it from line to line or stanza to stanza |
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| the elements of poetry that appeal to the ear |
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| the repetition of an initial sound (usually consonants) in two of more words of a phrase, line of poetry, or sentence; ex: "bloody, blameful blade" |
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| the repetition of similar of identical vowel sounds in nearby words or stressed syllables |
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| the repetition of consonant sounds in two or more successive words or stressed syllables that contain different vowel sounds;;;; ex: had/hid, wonder/wander |
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| the word choice and phrasing in a literary work |
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| the use of words that imitate the sound of what they describe |
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| used to create unity and mood to enhance the meaning in a poem |
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| language used for descriptive effect, often indirectly |
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| the close association of an image or sensation perceived by one of the senses with that received by another |
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| character's actions, speech, thoughts, physical appearance, what other characters say about them |
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| when the audience is told what the character is like |
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| requires the reader to infer a character's attributes based on dialogue and action |
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| indirect characterization |
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| the suggestions and associations which have surrounded a words as contrasted with its bare, literal meaning (denotation);;;;;ex: Gold-metallic element (denotation)----Gold-riches, luxury (__________) |
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| an expression in which words are used in unusual ways to create vivid or dramatic effects |
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