Poetry Terms
General Lit Terms
Syntax
Narration
Figurative Language
100
the narrative voice of the poem.
What is the speaker?
100
the emotional quality of a passage or the perceived attitude of a speaker towards a thing or idea in the text.
What is tone?
100

The clauses in compound sentences are linked by this grammatical element.

What is coordination?

100

This is the one who tells the story.

What is narrator?

100
a basic comparison of two generally unlike things that produced insight.
What is metaphor?
200
a combination of sounds that produces a harsh or discordant effect.
What is cacophony?
200
the author's choice of words based on their exact or connotative meaning for effect.
What is diction?
200

Complex sentences use this kind of linkage to reflect the lesser importance of the dependent clause.

subordination

200

This narrator has a much broader view and, usually, an objective perspective on characters and events. 

What is omniscient third-person?

200

A figure of thought in which a point is stated by deliberate circumlocution. (e.g. "passed away" for "died")

What is periphrasis?

300
the repetition of vowel sounds: “which din dims the light.”
What is assonance?
300

This is the opposite of enjambment, a mark of punctuation indicating a distinct pause at the end of a line.  

What is end-stopped line? 
300
the pace or speed of a sentence (or group of sentences) that comes through a variety of means, such as length of words, number of words, omission of words or punctuation, etc.
What is narrative pace?
300

This is a kind of character that is three-dimensional and subject to change and growth. 

What is round?

300

a figure of speech in which some significant aspect of an experience is used to represent the whole experience.

What is metonymy (or synedoche)?

400
the speaker addresses something or someone that cannot answer, something nonliving or inanimate.
What is apostrophe?
400

This is a pause in the midst of a verse line; the pause is indicated by a mark of punctuation, such as a comma, a question mark, a period, or a dash: "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."

What is caesura?

400
what we call a sentence where the most important idea comes first and the rest of the sentence unfolds easily after that (revealing information not critical to the climax).
What is a loose sentence?
400

This third kind of role occurs to contrast with the protagonist. 

What is foil?

400
an elaborate, intellectually ingenious metaphor that shows the poet's realm of knowledge; it may be brief or extended.
What is a metaphysical conceit (or simply conceit, for short)?
500
represented by a two syllable foot that contains one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iambic meter?
500
a moment of insight, spiritual or personal; a character's sudden revelation about life or his or her own circumstances.
What is epiphany?
500
this type of sentence construction (or even paragraph construction) contains balanced grammatical structures that provide similar rhetorical value.
What is parallel sentence or parallel structure?
500

The audience hears this brief remark, or sometimes another character on stage can hear it. 

What is an aside?

500
a short quotation or verse that precedes a poem (or any text) to set the tone, provide a setting, or give other context for the poem.
What is an epigram?
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