| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Allegory | a narrative that serves as an extended metaphor |
| alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds |
| allusion | a reference to another person, place or thing in history or literature |
| apostrophe | when a character addresses a person, idea, or abstract as if they are present. "oh sadness..." |
| archetype | a model character: seductress - Cleopatra |
| caesura | a pause in a line of verse |
| connotation | an image or idea that is inferred from another word: gold - luxury |
| dramatic monologue | a form of poem in which the audience is implied, there is no dialogue, and the poet speaks through a persona |
| Figurative language | the opposite of literal language. facilitates understanding - metaphor, comparison between two things |
| free verse | a poem that lacks a verse structure, and has no rhyme. closer to natural speach |
| hyperbole | an extravagant exaggeration |
| iambic pentameter | a form of sonnet in which there are 10 syllables per line, divided into five sets of iambs (/u). |
| Dramatic | Three types of irony: Cosmic, verbal, and _________. |
| Verbal | Three types of irony: Dramatic, Cosmic, and _________. |
| Lyric | a song-like poem written to convey the emotions and thoughts of a particular person |
| metaphor | figurative language, that says that one thing is something, which it literally, is not. |
| meter | regular rhythm in poetry |
| metonymy | when a detail or related object is used to represent the whole. Crown=Monarchy |
| modernist | _____________ poetry: 1890-1930, uses free verse, focuses on the literal meaning of words |
| motif | a recurring object or idea: good vs. evil |
| narrative | __________ poems tell stories |
| narrator | tells the story |
| ode | a formal lyric poem, serious with elevated tone. |
| Rhyme | repetition of similar sounds at the ends of words: love, dove |
| rhythm | the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements |
| sonnet | a lyric poem with 14 lines of 5-foot iambics |
| synecdoche | metaphor, one part stands for the whole: "robby got wheels" wheels=car |
| simile | a comparison using like or as |
| symbolism | using an object or theme to suggest more than it's literal meaning |
| theme | an idea that is present throughout a work |
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