english final

a person who speaks

The selection of words in a literary work

license or liberty taken by a poet, prose writer, or other artist in deviating from rule, conventional form, logic, or fact, in order to produce a desired effect

The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning

The dictionary meaning of a word

The pattern of related comparative aspects of language, particularly of images, in a literary work

A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole

A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words

A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though

A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as

The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities

An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself

a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression

a metaphor that is extended through a stanza or entire poem, often by multiple comparisons of unlike objects or ideas

The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work

use of words for auditory effect,can convey meaning or mood or unify a work

The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words

differing consonant sounds are followed by identical stressed vowel sounds, and the following sounds, if any, are identical

rhyme occurs within lines

the rhyming words occur at the ends of the lines

A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem

The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words

The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose

the repetition of identical consonant sounds and differing vowel sounds in words in proximity

a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem

The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe

The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse

The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems

one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable

Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme

A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter

the relationship or organization of the component parts of a work of art or literature

A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form

a sonnet form used by Shakespeare and having the rhyme schemeabab, cdcd, efef, gg

a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd.

A poem that tells a story

A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero

a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture

a written composition by a single poet, who deliberately chooses the sorts of themes found in folk ballads and imitates their form

single character speaking at a critical moment, usually addressed to some other character who remains silent

A type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and the expression of feeling

The manner or style of expressing oneself in language or the arts

A figure of speech involving exaggeration