| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Sentimentality | unmerited or contrived tender feeling; that quality in a work that elicits or seeks to elicits tears through an oversimplification or falsification of reality |
| Simile | figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike (like, as, than, similar to, resembers, |
| Metaphor | comparison between two unlike things (l + f are both named, L named and F unnamed, L implied and F named) |
| Apostrophe | figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or nonhuman is address as if it were alive and present and could reply |
| Paradox | statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible items |
| Allusion | reference to something in literature or history |
| Scansion | The process of measuring metrical verse, that is, of marking accented and unaccented syllables, finding the feet, etc |
| Didacticism | Poetry meant to teach or preach |
| Tone | writer or speakers attitude toward the subject, the audience, himself - the emotional coloring or meaning of the work |
| Symbol | something that means more than what it is; an object, person, situation, or action that in addition to literal meaning suggests other meanings as well |
| Verbal irony | which what is aid is the opposite of what is meant |
| rhetorical poetry | poetry that uses artificially elequent languge - too high flown and unfaithful to the full complexity of human experience |
| imagery | the representation through language of sense experience |
| personification | figure of speech in which human attributes are given in an animal, object, or concept |
| allegory | narrative that has a second meaning beneath, often relating each literal term to a fixed abstract idea |
| connotation | the other meanings of a word |
| rhythm | any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound |
| meter | regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse |
| overstatement | exaggeration used in the service of truth |
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