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

an extended metaphor that creates a complex and surprising comparison between two unlike things to explore a deeper meaning

What is methaphysical conceit 

200
the author's choice of words based on their exact or connotative meaning for effect.
What is diction?
200
a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.


What is internal rhyme?

200

a style of writing that adheres to strict grammar, iambic pentameter and has 14 lines but holds the theme in the last 2.

sonnet

200
an elaborate simile that compares an ordinary event or situation with the more complex idea in the text that is often recognized by the use of "just as, so then."
What is an epic or Homeric simile?
300
the repetition of vowel sounds: “which din dims the light.”
What is assonance?
300
what a word suggests beyond its denotative (precise or dictionary) meaning, including social or emotional connections.
What is connotation?
300

when an object, place or person, or mark is used to represent an abstract idea beyond the literal meaning

What is symbolism?

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

a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance.

What is allusion?

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

analyzing the multiple layers of meanin. it involves moving beyond a a superficial understanding to uncover a deeper meaning 

What is complexity?

400

recurring universal patter or model in human experience that manifesr as a symbol, character type or plot structure in stories 

What is archetype?

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

writing that sound like a story  but its written with alot of poetic leterary element and devices 

What is prose

500

Contrast between expectation and reality (verbal, dramatic, situational)

What is Irony?

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