-a basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of verse

-unrhymed iambic pentameter

-a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole

-an inscription written on a tomb or burial place

-a serious poem written to honor people, commemorate events, or respond to natural scenes

-a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements but actually represents a truth

-a six line stanza

-a figure of speech that substitutes something closely related for the thing actually meant

-a pointed, brief statement in prose or in verse

-a term used by Aristotle to describe some sort of emotional release experienced by the audience at the end of a successful tragedy

-an international movement in the arts during the early 20th century

-a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants

-a narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one

-a smooth, pleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds

-a poem about a trivial matter written in the style of a serious epic

-the representation through language of sense experience

-a metaphorical phrase used in Anglo-Saxon poetry

-the repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words

-two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme

-a fixed for of fourteen lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme

-a metrical line containing four feet

-the atmosphere created in a written work

-a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable

-central idea of a literary work

-a figure of speech in which something absent or dead or something non-human is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply

-a writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward the subject, the audience, or himself or herself

-a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history

-a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth

-seize the day

-a term used to describe a moment of insight in which a character recognizes some truth

-a figure of speech that fuses two contradictory or opposing idea, thus suggesting a paradox in just a few words

-a harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds

-the turning point or high point in a plot

-“god from the machine”