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| the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence of phrase |
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| poetry that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker |
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| a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles |
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| states comparison explicitly |
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| does not explicitly state the 2 terms of the comparison |
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| a metaphor that is extended or developed over a number of lines or with several examples |
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| a metaphor that has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid |
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| A metaphor that fails to make a logical comparison because its mixed terms are visually imaginatively incompatible |
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| a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry |
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| a figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely by a work of literature |
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| the overall emotion created by a work of literature |
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| a poem that tells a story a series of related events with a beginning, a middle, and an end. |
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| an eight-line poem, or the first eight lines of an Italian sonnet |
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| a lyric poem, usually long, on a serious subject and written in dignified language |
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| the use of a word whose sounds imitate or suggest its meaning |
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| A statement in which two parts seem contradictory |
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| a figure of speech where animals, ideas, or objects are given human characteristics |
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| a play on 2 words similar in sound but different in meaning |
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| a line or set of lines at the end of a stanza or section of a longer poem |
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| The similarity between syllable sounds at the end of two or more lines |
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| the varying speed, loudness, pitch, elevation, intensity, and expressiveness of speech in poetry |
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| a type of figurative language that makes a comparison between two unlike objects by using the words "like" or "as" |
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| a pattern where 2 words only have their final consonant sounds in common |
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| a 14 line poem, usually in iambic pentameter, with a varied rhyme scheme |
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| the narrative voice in a poem |
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| an arrangement of lines of verse in a pattern usually repeated throughout the poem |
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| writing involving a part of an object representing the whole,or the whole representing a part |
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| The writers mood or moral view |
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