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Literary Terms
Renaissance Unit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| couplet | a pair of rhyming pairs |
| repetition | recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines or a stanza in a speech or written piece |
| oxymoron | figure of speech that fuses two contradictions |
| analogy | extended comparison of relationships |
| epitaph | inscription on a tomb or burial place |
| prose | opposite of poetry |
| theme | central idea or purpose in a literary work |
| stanza | group of lines in a poem, seen as a unit |
| ode | long, formal lyric poem with a serious theme |
| onomatopoeia | used to imitate sounds |
| imagery | descriptive language used to recreat sensory experiences |
| narration | writing that tells a story |
| sonnet | fourteen line lyric with a single theme |
| elegy | solemn and formal lyric poem about death |
| symbol | sign, word, phrase, image to represent something |
| conceit | an unusual and surprising comparison between two very different things |
| epigram | a brief statement in prose or in verse |
| epiphany | a term to describe a moment of insight; "lightbulb moment" |
| blank verse | unrhymed poetry usually written in iambic pentameter |
| free verse | poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern, or meter |
| pastoral | literary works that deal with the pleasures of a simple rural life or with escape to a simpler place and time |
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