The use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas. Carl Sandburg’s poem “Chicago” describes the city as “Stormy, husky, brawling, / City of the Big Shoulders.”

includes the time, location, and everything in which a story takes place, and initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story

A comparison of two things through the use of “like” or “as.” The title of Robert Burns’s poem “My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose” is a simile.

A play on words that exploits the similarity in sound between two words with distinctly different meanings.

in poetry this involves the exact arrangements of syllables into repeated patterns called feet within a line.

The repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants, at the beginning of words. For example, Robert Frost’s poem “Out, out—” contains the alliterative phrase “sweet scented stuff.”

An excessive overstatement or conscious exaggeration of fact

An implicit reference within a literary work to a historical or literary person, place, or event. Ballad

a type of poetry, distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme.

a stanza or poem consisting of four lines.

A genre of poetry consisting of nineteen lines--five tercets and a concluding quatrain. The form requires that whole lines be repeated in a specific order, and that only two rhyming sounds occur in the course of the poem.

A formal poem that laments the death of a friend or public figure, or, occasionally, a meditation on death itself.

is a form of poetry which refrains from meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern.

a work that describes the simple life of country folk, usually shepherd’s who live a timeless, painless life in a world full of beauty, music and love.

The comparison of one thing to another that does not use the terms “like” or “as.” Shakespeare is famous for his metaphors, as in Macbeth

The use of words, such as “pop,” “hiss,” and “boing,” that sound like the thing they refer to.>

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Personification	The use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas. Carl Sandburg’s poem “Chicago” describes the city as “Stormy, husky, brawling, / City of the Big Shoulders.”
Setting	includes the time, location, and everything in which a story takes place, and initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story
Simile	A comparison of two things through the use of “like” or “as.” The title of Robert Burns’s poem “My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose” is a simile.
Pun	A play on words that exploits the similarity in sound between two words with distinctly different meanings.
meter	in poetry this involves the exact arrangements of syllables into repeated patterns called feet within a line.
Alliteration	The repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants, at the beginning of words. For example, Robert Frost’s poem “Out, out—” contains the alliterative phrase “sweet scented stuff.”
Hyperbole	An excessive overstatement or conscious exaggeration of fact
Allusion	An implicit reference within a literary work to a historical or literary person, place, or event. Ballad
blank verse	a type of poetry, distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme.
quatrains	a stanza or poem consisting of four lines.
villanelle	A genre of poetry consisting of nineteen lines--five tercets and a concluding quatrain. The form requires that whole lines be repeated in a specific order, and that only two rhyming sounds occur in the course of the poem.
Elegy	A formal poem that laments the death of a friend or public figure, or, occasionally, a meditation on death itself.
free verse	is a form of poetry which refrains from meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern.
Pastoral	a work that describes the simple life of country folk, usually shepherd’s who live a timeless, painless life in a world full of beauty, music and love.
Metaphor	The comparison of one thing to another that does not use the terms “like” or “as.” Shakespeare is famous for his metaphors, as in Macbeth
Onomatopoeia	The use of words, such as “pop,” “hiss,” and “boing,” that sound like the thing they refer to.>

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