Sought to portray real life as faithfully and accurately as possible. Focused on ordinary people faced with the harsh realities of everyday life. From this formed naturalism

Focused on truthfully portraying he lives of ordinary people.

Believed that a person fate is determined by the environment, heredity, or chance. Depicted characters that characters whose lives were shaped by forces they could neither understand nor control, nut endured the with strength and dignity

The reputation of three or more consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a line of poetry

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work or work of art for the purpose of illustrating complex ideas simply and clearly

The repetition of vowel sounds in a line or stanza of poetry

Word choice

An extravagant statement, the use of exaggerated for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect

Creating Pictures with words, use descriptive language that appeals to the senses

The use of words to convey the opposite of there literary meaning. A statement or situation where he meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea

A comparison without using “like” or “as”

The use of stressed and unstressed syllables in the arrangement of lines determining the line-length of each line of poetry

Words that imitate sounds

Combines two opposing or contradictory ideas

A statement that seems to be contradictory, but that actually resents a truth

Giving human-like characteristics to non-human things

Repeating words or phrases in a poem or emphasis or for rhyme

The musical quality of a poem when read aloud, created and enhanced by diction, meter, and repetition, as well as other poetic devices such as alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia, as well as rhyming within the lines

A comparison using the words “like or “as”

The voice an author uses in a poem

Anything that stands for represents something else

Lacks a regular rhythmical pattern or meter, a writer of this is a liberty to use any rhymes that are appropriate to what he or she is saying

A long, formal lyric poem with a serious theme, these often honor people, commemorative events, respond to natural scenes or consider serious human problems

A fourteen-line poem focused on a single theme, sonnets have many variations, but are often written in iambic pentameter

Two-line stanza

Three-line stanza

Four-line stanza

Five-line stanza

Six-line stanza

Seven-line stanza

Eight-line stanza