Question | Answer |
Allegory | Extended narrative in which there is a surface story and deeper meaning. |
Analogy | Comparison. |
Anaphora | Repetition at the beginning of something to emphasize an idea. |
Aphorism | Brief statement of an opinion or elemental truth. |
Apostrophe | Direct address to someone who is not present. |
Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within a group of words or lines. |
Blank Verse | Unrhymed, iambic pentameter. |
Caesura | A Pause. |
Carpe Diem | "Seize the Day" |
Connotation | Abstract Meaning |
Consonance | Repetition of 2+ consonants, with interchanging vowel. ("Pitter- Patter") |
Couplet | Pair of rhymed lines. |
Denotation | Formal definition. |
Elegy | Formal meditative poem or lament of the dead. |
Elipses | ... |
Epistrophe | Ending with the same word(s). |
Euphemism | A more socially acceptable term. |
Foil | Opposite character to bring out the character's traits. |
Foot | Combo of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up the metric unit of a line. |
Free Verse | Poetry that doesn't follow a prescribed form. |
Jargon | Pattern of speech. |
Juxtaposition | Placement of an idea next to its opposite. |
Lyric | Poem in which the speaker expressed intensely person emotion or thoughts. |
Malapropism | Comic word play in which one word is mistakenly used for a similar one. |
Metaphor | Implicit comparison, w/o "like" or "as." |
Meter | Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
Metonymy | Name of one thing is substituted for another that is closely related. |
Metric Line | A line named according to the number of feet composing it. |
Ode | Lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment. |
Paradox | FOS that creates mental ambiguity for the reader to seek clarity. |
Parallelism | Patter that creates rhyme of repetition. |
Panegyric | Literary expression of praise. |
Pun | Play on words. |
Refrain | A line repeated in a poem. |
Repetition | Repeating for emphasis. |
Rhyme | Echo or imitation of a sound. |
Rhythm | Sense of movement. |
Shift | Change. |
Soliloquy | Speech in which a character is alone and expresses his or her thoughts. |
Sonnet | 14 Lined poem. |
Stanza | Group of lines that forms a division of a poem. |
Symbol | Object that signifies something greater than itself. |
Synecdoche | FOS in which a part is substituted for a whole. (car- "wheels") |
Theme | Conveyed insight to life. |
Verse | Line of metrical language, in contrast to prose. |