The representation of the same consonant sound in a sequence of words, usually at the beginning of a word or stressed syllable

A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or a idea in history or literature

The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs

The repetition of internal vowel sounds in a nearby words that do not end the same

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

A pause within a line of poetry that contributes to the rhythm of the line. It can occur anywhere within a line and need not be indicated by punctuation.

An idea or expression that has become tired and trite from overuse

Associations and implications that go beyond the word’s literal meaning and deriving from how the word has been commonly used and the associations people make with it

A common type of near rhym that consists of identical consonant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds

Two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter

A writer’s choice of words, phrases, sentences structures, and figured of language, which combined to help create meaning

The rhyme comes at the end of the lines

A poetic line that has a pause at the end. They reflect normal speech patterns and often marked by punctuation

When one line and without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning. This is also called a run-on line

Words that share the same stressed vowel sounds as well as sharing it sounds that follow the vowel

Where is that look alike but do not rhyme at all

Ways of using language that deviate from the right literal, denotative meaning of words in order to suggest additional meanings or effects

The metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured.

A foot usually consists of one stresses or one or two on stressed syllables

Refers to poems characterized by their nonconformity to established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza

Of boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true

Consists of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable

Appeals to the five senses

Uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true

Makes comparison between two unlike things WITHOUT using the words like or as

When a rhyme pattern of stresses recurs in the poem

A type of metaphor in which something closely associated with the subject is substituted for it

The feeling that that literary work conveys to a reader

A poem that tells a story

Refers to the use of a word that resembles a sound it denotes

A statement that initially appears to be contradictory but then, on closer inspection, turns out to make sense

A balance of two or more similar words, phrases, or clauses. It strebgthens connections among ideas and actions or sequences described.

Human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things

Refers to who tells us a story and how it is told

A kind of open form poetry that is printed as purpose and represents the most clear opposite of fixed form poetry

A play on words that relies on the word’s having more than one meaning or sounding like another word

Of four line stanza

Line or lines that are repeated

Describes the patterns of and rhymes

The literary art of ridiculing folly or vice in order to expose or correct it

A comparison between two things using the words like or as

This sounds are almost but not exactly alike

Refers to a group of lines set off by a space

A fixed form of lyric poetry that consists of 14 lines, usually written in iambic pentameter

The voice used by an author to tell a story or speak a poem

A person, an object, an image, a word, or an event that envokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract than it’s a literal significance

A kind of metaphor in which a part of something is used to signify the whole

Sentence structure – the ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses, and sentences

The central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work

The author’s implicate attitude toward the reads or the people, places, and events in a work as revealed by the elements of the author’s style

The opposite of hyperbole, understatement refers to a figure of speech that says less then is intended