These are some terms that you should know for discussion of the texts
in this class:
| sonnet | English / Shakespearean sonnet | quatrain | couplet | lyric |
| metaphor | Italian / Petrarchan sonnet | octave | sestet | rhythm |
| rhyme scheme | Petrarchan Conceit | simile | chiasmus | irony |
| imagery | symbol / symbolism | oxymoron | paradox | theme |
| point of view: | selective omniscient | omniscient | objective | |
| plot: | denouement | exposition | climax | conflict |
| character | foreshadowing | setting | tone | mood |
| slant rhyme | villanelle | apostrophe | ode | elegy |
| Negritude | reverse minstrel show | autobiography | folk tale | myth |
