Poertry Term

highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker

poem that tells a story

poetry that uses techniques of drama

fourteen-line lyric peom, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter

long narrative or narrative poem about the deeds of gods or heros

three-line verse form. first and third lines contain five syllables and the second line contains seven

consists of five unrhymed lines with pattern of 5,7,5,7,7 syllables

lyric poem written in three-line stanzas, ending in a four-line stanzas

poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines

poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter

use of words that imitate sounds

putting two contradictory words together

repition of initial consonant sounds

use of any element of language, -sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence- more than once

pattern of beats, or stesses, in spoken or written language

repitition of sounds at the ends of wordsface

repitition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables

repitition of similar consonant at the end of accented syllables

pair of rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter

rhymical pattern of a poem

foot with one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

foot with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

foot with two unstressed syllables followed by one strong stress

foot with one strong stress followed by two unstressed syllables

foot with two strong stresses

one foot

two feet

three feet

verse written with four-foot lines

verse written with five-foot lines

verse written with six-foot lines

verse written with seven-foot lines

figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were somthing else

figure of speech in which like or as is used to make a comparison between two basically unlike ideas

type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

exaggeration or overstatement

anything that stands for or represents something else

understate the obvious

discriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader

reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work or work of art

comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship

two opposing ideas

one uses a part to represent the whole

substituting a word for another word closely associated with it

inversion of the normal syntactic order of words

soothing pleasant sounds

harsh, discordant sounds

central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work

word choice

dictionary meaning, independent of other associations that the word may have

set of ideas associated with it in addition to its explict meaning

imiginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem

writer's attitude toward his or her audience for the main character

feeling created in a reader by a literary work or passage