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This is the repetition of sentence or line beginnings.
What is anaphora?
This the literal dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
This is the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling or any of the five senses.
What is imagery?
This is an address or invocation of something inanimate, something that is unable to respond.
What is apostrophe?
This is a synonym for tone. It expresses the author's feelings toward a subject.
What is attitude?
This is a narrative in which everything has a symbolic meaning, including characters, events, and even the setting.
What is allegory?
This is a poetic lament for the dead - or a poem about death.
What is elegy?
The specific word choice used by an author in order to create a certain tone.
What is diction?
This is a reference to something outside the text, another piece of literature, a song, a historical event, or a person.
What is an allusion?
This is the implied or suggested meaning of a word.
What is connotation?
This is ordinary, vernacular, informal language.
What is colloquial?
This is the continuation of one line of poetry to the next. It is the opposite of an end-stopped line.
What is enjambment?
Two lines of iambic pentameter that together create a single idea or connection. A two lined stanza.
What is a couplet?
This is a brief story told by a character in a piece of literature.
What is an anecdote?
Similar to a soliloquy, it is a speech in poem form, usually spoken to an unnamed or unknown audience.
What is a dramatic monologue?
This is a figure of speech in which the order of terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second.
What is chiasmus?
This is a metrical foot in poetry that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iambic?
This is the repetition of consonant sounds with a change in the intervening vowels.
What is consonance?
This is the elimination of conjunctions in order to create fast paced, rapid prose.
What is asyndeton?
This is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
What is meter?
This is a metrical foot in poetry that consists of two stressed syllables followed by one unstressed syllable.
What is dactylic?
A figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by the use of conscious understatement.
What is litote?
This is a mid line pause in a line of poetry.
What is caesura?
This most closely resembles spoken English. It consists of lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
This is a comparison of two unlikely things, drawn out through the course of a poem. It is also known as an extended metaphor. The metaphysical poets used these extensively.
What is a conceit?