- Langston Huges: harlem renaissance writer and poet
- active: [blank] voice places the subject in front of the predicate
- allegory: symbolic representation
- alliteration: repitition of consonant sounds found at the beginining of words
- allusion: a reference to a statement, person, place, event, mythology, ect
- appositive: word that renames another noun or pronoun with a noun or pronoun
- approximate rhyme: when two words have some sound in common but do not rhyme exactly
- assonance: the repition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds
- blank verse: poety written in unthymed iambic pentameter
- comma: if you begin a sentence with a subordinate clause, always seperate the clause and the independent clase with a [blank]
- conotation: the emotion a word conveys
- consonance: the repition of consonant sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds
- denotation: dictionary deffinition
- diction: word choice
- extended metaphor: a metaphor that develops over several lines
- first: "i" is [blank] person point of view
- free: langston huges enjoyed writing in [blank] versse
- free verse: poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme
- gerund: a word that ends in ing and serves as a noun
- hyperbole: an exaggeration
- iamb: a stressed symbol followed by an unstresses symbol
- imagery: language that appeals to the 5 senses
- infinitive: to plus a verb
- internal rhyme: rhyme that occurs in the middle of the line
- italics: titles of a book should be in [blank] in order to follow proper MLA format
- metaphor: a comparison of two unlike things not using like or as
- mood: atmosphere in writing
- onomonopia: use of a word whose sound imitates or suggest its meaning
- oxymoron: contridicting words
- participle: a word that looks like a verb but serves as an adjective
- passive: [blank] voice places the subject behind the predicate
- personification: giving human qualities to non-human things
- rhyme scheme: a regular pattern of rhyme in a poem
- rhymed couplet: two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
- second: "you" is [blank] point of view
- simile: a comparison of two unlike things using like or as
- sonnet: a 14 line poem
- stanza: group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit
- symbol: a peron place or thing that stands for something more than itself
- theme: the central idea
- thesis: topic sentences should refer to this
- third: type of point of view you should use in a formal essay
- tone: attitude in writing