Poetry Terms
General Lit Terms
Syntax
Style
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 main idea or most important point in a sentence. Its position may be varied for effect.
What is climax?
100
ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach.
What is satirical?
100
a basic comparison of two generally unlike things that produced insight.
What is metaphor?
200

the act of stationg or predicting a furute event in writing or hinting at something that is to come

What is foreshadow?

200
the author's choice of words based on their exact or connotative meaning for effect.
What is diction?
200

 Repetition at the beginning of clauses (e.g., "I have a dream...").

What is anaphora?

200
the interwoven connection of one text to the other. often use to draw a connection between stories or to reference another stories.  

What is intertextuality?

200

a literary device that develops a comparison between two unlike things (a "tenor" and a "vehicle") over multiple sentences, lines, or even an entire work

What is an extended metaphor 

300

The indirect reference to something else, someone else or a historic event use to add more vivid details to any reference

What is allusion?

300

recurring universal patterns or models in human experiences that manifest as symbols, tropes or character types

What is archetypes?

300

presents stories or media without a traditional, chronological plot, instead using techniques like flashbacks, parallel timelines, or fragmented events to create complex experiences that focus on themes, emotions, or ideas

What is non-narrative structure ?

300
serious in purpose and convention (no slang, contractions; no idioms).
What is formal?
300
a figure of speech in which some significant aspect of an experience is used to represent the whole experience.
What is metonymy?
400
the speaker addresses something or someone that cannot answer, something nonliving or inanimate.
What is apostrophe?
400
a clever little story; a short account of an interesting situation relevant to the text and used as example.
What is an anecdote?
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

when the words in the middle and the end rhyme  ot create a more musical flow for the enjoyment of the readers 

What is internal rhyme?

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

the act of discussing or criticizing an idea about society, culture. political,or economic issue. with the goal to inform or evoke a thought

What is social commentary?

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

focusing instead on examining, interpreting, and evaluating a topic to answer "how" and "why" questions

What is analytical ?

500

 A part represents the whole

What is Synecdoche ?

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