Allusion- The act of alluding; indirect reference
Apostrophe- The direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction, especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition.
Assonance- Resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words.
Ballad-is a story in a song, usually a narrative song or poem.
Cacophony- The use of harsh or discordant sounds in literary composition, as for poetic effect.
Euphony-The agreeable sound especially in the phonetic quality of words.
Caesura- A pause in a line of verse dictated by sense or natural speech rhythm rather than by metrics.
Conceit- A favorable and especially unduly high opinion of one's own abilities or worth.
Connotation/Denotation- A favorable and especially unduly high opinion of one's own abilities or worth. The most specific or direct meaning of a word, in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Consonance- The repetition of consonants or of a consonant pattern, especially at the ends of words.
Couplet- A unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic unit.
Diction- Authors Choice and use of words in speech or writing.
Elegy- A poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person.
Didactic Literature- Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; instructive; teaching some moral lesson.
Epithet- is a descriptive word or phrase. It has various shades of meaning when applied to linguistics, religion, and biological.
Euphemism- The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive.
Foot- A unit of poetic meter consisting of stressed and unstressed syllables in any of various set combinations.
Free Verse- Verse composed of variable, usually unrhymed lines having no fixed metrical pattern.
Figurative language- speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech
Iamb- A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable or a short syllable followed by a long syllable, as in delay.
Imagery- A set of mental pictures or images.
Irony- The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
Local Color- The interest or flavor of a locality imparted by the customs and sights peculiar to it.
Lyric Poem- a short poem of songlike quality.
Metaphor- A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison.
Meter- Measuring device.
Metonymy- is the use of a single characteristic to identify a more complex entity.
Narrative Poem- a poem that tells a story and has a plot
Ode- A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanzaic structure.
Paradox- A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true
Personification- A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form.
Parallel Structure- Having similar structure in a paragraph.
Rhyme- Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse.
Rhyme Scheme- The arrangement of rhymes in a poem or stanza.
Rhythm- The patterned, recurring alternations of contrasting elements of sound or speech.
Simile- Using like or as.
Sonnet- it had come to signify a poem of fourteen lines following a strict rhyme scheme and logical structure.
Symbolism- The practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships.
Synecdoche- is a figure of speech that presents a kind of metaphor.
Synesthesia- is the involuntary physical experience of a cross-modal association.
Theme- A topic of discourse or discussion.
Tone- Manner of expression in speech or writing.
Understatement (litode)- A disclosure or statement that is less than complete.
Quatrain- A stanza or poem of four lines.
Enjambment- The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause.
Slant Rhyme- is consonance on the final consonants of the words involved.
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