a movement emphasizing inspiration,personal feelings, and the importance of the individual

a movement emphasizing that the individual is more powerful than any institution

the use of techniques of drama to present the speech of one or more characters in verse form

tells a story and has the same literary elements, such as a character, plot, and setting, as works of prose fiction

expresses the thoughts and feeling of a single speaker

the use of a part of something to stand for the whole

language that uses images: words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the senses

a divine spirit supposed to pervade the universe and to encompass all human souls`

a person who lives in apart from society, often for religious meditation

rhyme in which either the vowels or the constants of stressed syllables are identical

the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poetic line

a verse that dos not follow a fixed metrical pattern`

the study of the patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words

groups of poetic lines

the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications

repetition of initial consonant sounds

repetition of final consonant sounds

repetition of similar vowel sounds

use of words that sounds like it means

a figure of speech that compares two apparently unlike things using the words “like” or “as”

a figure of speech that shows a similarity between two apparently unlike things without using the words “like” or “as”

a figure of speech that combines two contradictory words, as in wise fool

a figure of speech that gives human traits to something nonhuman

a list

the repetition of phrases or sentences with similar structures or meanings

a similarity between like features of two things on which a comparison may be based

a statement that seems contradictory but actually presents a truth