Question | Answer |
Alliteration | The repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants or consonant clusters, in a group of words |
Allusion | A reference in one work of literature to a person, place, or event in another work of literature or in history, art, or music |
Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually close together, in a group of words |
Ballad | A story told in verse and usually meant to be sung |
Connotation | The emotion or association that a word or phrase may arouse |
Denotation | The literal or "dictionary" meaning of a word |
Dramatic Poetry | Poetry in which one or more characters speak |
Free Verse | Poetry that has no fixed meter or pattern and that depends on natural speech |
Lyric Poetry | Poetry that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts or feelings |
Metaphor | A comparison between two unlike unlike things with intent of giving added meaning to one of them |
Narrative Poetry | Poetry that tells a story |
Onomatopoeia | The use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning |
Parallelism | The use of phrases, clauses, or sentences that are similar or complementary in structure or in meaning |
Personification | A figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a natural force, or an idea is given personality, or described as if it were human |
Repetition | The return of a word, phrase, stanza, form, or effect in any form of literature |
Rhyme | The repetition of sound in two or more words or phrases that usually appear close to each other in a poem |
End Rhyme | If the rhyme occurs at the ends of lines |
Internal Rhyme | If the rhyme occurs within the line |
Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of rhyme's in a poem |
Simile | A comparison made between two dissimilar things through the use of a specific word of comparison such as like, as than, or resembles |
Sonnet | A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter |