Essay Instructions
A speaker's, author's, or character's disposition toward or opinion of a subject.
Attitude
Explicitly instructive.
Didactic
A line with a pause at the end (punctuation)
End-stopped
Unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Blank Verse
to restrict or limit in meaning.
Modify
Word Choice
Diction
The use of material unrelated to the subject of work.
Digression
A two-syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable.
Iamb
The omission of a word or several words necessary for a complete construction that is still understandable.
Ellipsis
The mood of a verb that gives an order.
Imperative
The management of language for a specific effect. The strategy or rhetorical strategy of a poem is the planned placing of elements to achieve an effect.
Strategy
A figure of speech used to avoid offensive bluntness.
Euphemism
A seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbccc, used by Chaucer.
Rhyme royal
A directly expressed comparison; a figure of speech comparing two objects, usually with "like," "as,"or "than."
Simile
The structure of a sentence.
Syntax
Something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else.
Symbol
Direct address, usually to someone or something that is not present.
Apostrophe
Normally a 14-line iambic pentameter poem.
Sonnet
The use of words whose sound suggests their meaning.
Onomatopoeia
A group of words containing a subject and its verb that may or may not be a complete sentence.
Clause
the main thought expressed by a work
Theme
Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Literal
A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc.
Terza Rima
A statement that seems to be self-contradicting but, in fact, is true.
Paradox
That which goes before, especially the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers,
Antecedent