nonmetrical verse arranged in lines that may be more or less rhythmical, but has no fixed metrical pattern or expectation
What is free verse?
100
the repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words
What is alliteration?
100
a figure of speech in which something (object, person, situation, or action) means more than what it is. a symbol may be read literally and metaphorically
What is a symbol?
100
image, pattern, thematic idea in a work of art or literature that is developed and repeated
What is motif?
200
word order and/or sentence length
What is syntax?
200
a line of poetry in which the sense and grammatical construction continues on to the next line without pause or punctuation
What is enjambment?
200
two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme
What is a couplet?
200
a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements
What is paradox?
200
a character whose personality and attitude contrast sharply with those of another
What is a foil?
300
image that represents a smell
What is olfactory imagery?
300
unstressed unstressed stressed
What is anapest?
300
a metrical line containing three feet
What is trimeter?
300
some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience (the use of something closely related for the thing actually meant)
What is metonymy?
300
third person point of view with access to a complete knowledge of one character in the story
What is limited omniscient?
400
poetry having as a primary purpose to teach or preach
What is didactic poetry?
400
unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
400
a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as it were alive and present
What is apostrophe?
400
when the outcome of a work is unexpected, or events are opposite from the expected
What is situational irony?
400
the writer's or speaker's attitude toward his subject, his audience, or himself
What is tone?
500
a strident, discordant combination of sounds
What is cacophony?
500
sonnet that consists of three quatrains and a couplet - abab cdcd efef gg
What is an English/Shakespearean sonnet?
500
a poem about dawn, a morning love song, or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn
What is an aubade?
500
an extended witty, paradoxical, or startling metaphor
What is conceit?
500
a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted