Topics: Art › Symbolism
Type: Classification Essays
Sample donated: Dan Chambers
Last updated: December 5, 2019
Alliteration
occurence of same letter/sound at the beginning of words
Allusion
indirect reference , A reference to another work of literature, person, or event
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Aside
character’s dialoge spoken, but not heard by other actors
Assonance
internal rhyme, makes use of repeated vowel sounds
Ballad
ancient form of story telling
Couplet
A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. Stanzas two lines
Diction
A writer’s or speaker’s choice of words
Free verse
Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Foreboding
(n.) a warning or feeling that something bad will happen; (adj.) marked by fear, ominous
Haiku
3 unrhymed lines (5, 7, 5) usually focusing on nature
Iambic pentameter
A classification of a poem’s meter when most (though certainly not all) of the feet are iambs.
Iambic pentameter is the most natural meter for English poetry.
Imagery
Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)
Inference
A logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience.
Metaphor (implied)
not explicitly stated or obvious that compares two things by using adjectives that commonly describe one thing, but are used to describe another comparing two
Meter
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
Monologue
A long speech in a play or story, delivered by a single person (see soliloquy).
Onomatopoeia
A word that imitates the sound it represents.
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Pun
Play on words with a humerous effect
End ryhme
rhyme that occurs at end of line
internal ryhme
Ryhming words are found within a line of poetry.
Approximate ryhme
final sounds are similar, not exact aka slant ryhme
rhythm
The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem
simile
A comparison using like or as
solilquy
A long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage
sonnet
: a lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to certain definite patterns.
It usually expresses a single, complete idea or thought with a reversal, twist, or change of direction in the concluding lines.
speaker
A term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing
symbolism
A device in literature where an object represents an idea.
theme
Central idea of a work of literature
tone
A writer’s attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels.