tells an objective story

long narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters of high position in a series of adventures which form an organic whole through their relation to a acentral figure of heroic proportions and through their development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race (ie.

The Odyssey)

presented as an individual’s speech or as a dialogue between two people

gives personal feelings/emotions of the poet marked by imagination, melody, and emotion which creates in the reader a unified impression

role or voice assumed by poet in a given poem

how a poem is organized

a standard unit of poetry; way in which lines are grouped

unrhymed verse

poems without a formally recognizable meter

the overall mood and atmosphere of a poem

the imitation of natural sound by word sound

close repetition of the same vowel sound for a certain effect

close repetition of the same vowel sound for a certain effect

a matching sound or sounds

types of words used in poem that reveal clues about speaker and situation

repetition of conjunctions to effect measured thought and solemnity

uses like or as in directly joining two images or ideas

an indirect linking of two images or ideas

an extension of a metaphor which “presents us with one half of the analogy and requires us to supply the missing part”

words conveying opposite meanings

exaggeration or overstatement

giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

repeating a word or words to reate emphasis, rhythm, or coherence

mark of puncuation used to create pauses or gaps