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| The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. |
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| A character or force against which another character struggles. |
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| The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose, as in "I rose and told him of my woe." |
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| A line of poetry in unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
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| The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. The climax represents the point of greatest tension in the work. |
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| A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, and metrical pattern. |
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| A struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually resolved by the end of the work. The conflict may occur within a character as well as between characters. |
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| The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning. |
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| A customary feature of a literary work, such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy, the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable, or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle. Literary conventions are defining features of particular literary genres, such as novel, short story, ballad, sonnet, and play. |
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| A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. |
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| The dictionary meaning of a word. Writers typically play off a word's denotative meaning against its connotations, or suggested and implied associational implications. |
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| The selection of words in a literary work. A work's diction forms one of its centrally important literary elements, as writers use words to convey action, reveal character, imply attitudes, identify themes, and suggest values. |
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| A lyric poem that laments the dead. |
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| A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. An enjambed line differs from an end-stopped line in which the grammatical and logical sense is completed within the line. |
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| A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero. Epics typically chronicle the origins of a civilization and embody its central values. |
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| A brief witty poem, often satirical. |
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| A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. Examples include hyperbole or exaggeration, litotes or understatement, simile and metaphor, which employ comparison, and synecdoche and metonymy, in which a part of a thing stands for the whole. |
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| A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. For example, an iamb or iambic foot is represented by ˘', that is, an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one. |
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| Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. The verse is "free" in not being bound by earlier poetic conventions requiring poems to adhere to an explicit and identifiable meter and rhyme scheme in a form such as the sonnet or ballad. Modern and contemporary poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries often employ free verse. |
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| A figure of speech involving exaggeration. |
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| An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, as in to-DAY. |
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| A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or an idea. Imagery refers to the pattern of related details in a work. In some works one image predominates either by recurring throughout the work or by appearing at a critical point in the plot. Often writers use multiple images throughout a work to suggest states of feeling and to convey implications of thought and action. |
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| The pattern of related comparative aspects of language, particularly of images, in a literary work. |
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| A contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature. In verbal irony, characters say the opposite of what they mean. In irony of circumstance or situation, the opposite of what is expected occurs. In dramatic irony, a character speaks in ignorance of a situation or event known to the audience or to the other characters. |
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| A type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and the expression of feeling. |
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| A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. |
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| The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems. |
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| A poem that tells a story. |
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| The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work, to be distinguished from the actual living author. |
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| An eight-line unit, which may constitute a stanza; or a section of a poem, as in the octave of a sonnet. |
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| A long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form. Usually an ode is a serious poem on an exalted subject. |
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| The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. Words such as buzz and crack are onomatopoetic. |
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| A type of structure or form in poetry characterized by freedom from regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, metrical pattern, and overall poetic structure. |
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| The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities. |
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| The angle of vision from which a story is narrated. |
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| A four-line stanza in a poem, the first four lines and the second four lines in a Petrarchan sonnet. A Shakespearean sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a couplet. |
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| The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse. |
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| A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. |
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| A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem; the last six lines of an Italian sonnet. |
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| A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though. |
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| A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter. The Shakespearean or English sonnet is arranged as three quatrains and a final couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg. The Petrarchan or Italian sonnet divides into two parts: an eight-line octave and a six-line sestet, rhyming abba abba cde cde or abba abba cd cd cd. |
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| A metricalfoot represented by two stressed syllables, such as KNICK-KNACK. |
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| A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form--either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter, or with variations from one stanza to another. |
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| A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole. |
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| The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue. The organization of words and phrases and clauses in sentences of prose, verse, and dialogue. |
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| The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization. |
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| The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work. |
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| An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one, as in FOOT-ball. |
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| A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means; the opposite of exaggeration. |
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Give the meter of Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow. |
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What term describes the sounds in this line of Hopkins' "In the Valley of the Elwy."
Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood. |
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What figure of speech is most apparent in these lines from Hughes' "Harlem.
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun? |
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| What terms describe the characters of Othello and Iago in Shakespeare's Othello? |
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| Protagonist and antagonist |
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| Hamlet's decision to trick Claudius into confessing his crime marks which point in the play's plot? |
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| What form of poetry comprises 3 quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet? |
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| The word "Utah" is an example of which metrical foot? |
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| The phrase "Lend me a hand" is an example of what type of figurative language. |
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| What is the term for a poem that mourns for loss? |
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| An author who is obviously showing disdain for his/her characters is creating a ________ . |
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| What is the form of poetry comprised of an octave followed by a sestet? |
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| What type of figurative language does Burns use when he writes, "My love is a red, red rose"? |
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| Pope's "Rape of the Lock," an epic poem about a drawing room card game, is an example what what genre of writing? |
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These lines from Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" are an example of which poetic movement?
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough. |
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| Modern and contemporary poems often use which type of form? |
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| The line "The yellow leaves flaunted their color gaily in the breeze" is an example of what type of figurative language? |
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| The statement "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" is an example of which type of figurative language? |
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| The chorus in a Greek tragedy is an example of a ____________ . |
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| The words "trash" and "garbage" share the same meaning, but different ____________ . |
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| Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are examples of which form of poetry? |
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| What is the effect of an enjambed line of poetry? |
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| Increases speed of reading because there are no pauses built in to the text. |
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| A poem that tells a story is called a ___________ . |
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The following lines of Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 are an example of a __________ .
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare. |
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What is the meter of the following line from Shakespeare's Sonnet 130?
"As any she belied with false compare." |
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| Name the meter of a line of poetry with 6 feet. |
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