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 narrative voice of the poem.
What is the speaker?
100
the main idea or most important point in a sentence. Its position may be varied for effect.
What is the climax?
100
a genre or mode that uses irony, wit, and sometimes sarcasm to expose humanity's vices and foibles
What is satire?
100
a basic comparison of two generally unlike things that produced insight.
What is metaphor?
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
a combination of sounds that produces a harsh or discordant effect.
What is cacaphony?
200
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?
200
instructive; author attempts to educate or instruct the reader.
What is didactic?
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 (Homeric) simile?
300
unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
300
a clever little story; a short account of an interesting situation relevant to the text and used as example.
What is anecdote?
300
A complex sentence that is not syntactically complete until its very end
What is a periodic sentence?
300
serious in purpose and convention (no slang, contractions; no idioms).
What is formal?
300
a figure of speech in which one thing is represented by another that is commonly and often physically associated with it.
What is metonymy?
400
sonnet that consists of three quatrains and a couplet - abab cdcd efef gg
What is an English/Shakespearean sonnet?
400
a moment of insight, spiritual or personal; a character's sudden revelation about life or his or her own circumstances.
What is epiphany?
400
this type of sentence construction (or even paragraph construction) contains balanced grammatical structures that provide similar rhetorical value.
What is parallel structure?
400
short, to the point.
What is terse?
400
an elaborate, intellectually ingenious metaphor that shows the poet's realm of knowledge; it may be brief or extended.
What is conceit?
500
a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as it were alive and present
What is apostrophe?
500
a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted
What is an unreliable narrator?
500
the rhythm of a sentence that come through parallel elements and repetition.
What is cadence?
500
learned, polished, scholarly.
What is erudite?
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.