Poetry/Figurative Language

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

word play that suggests two or more meanings for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.

Associations a word calls to mind.

The author's attitude toward the subject

A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

A group of lines in a poem

Repetition of similar vowel sounds

A person, place, thing or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.

a four-line stanza

Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme

A story's atmosphere or the feeling it evokes.

A category or type of literature characterized by a particular form, style, or content.

The literal meaning of a word.

Dictionary definition of a word

Prose writing that deals with real people, things, events, and places

Repetition of sounds at the end of words

A product of a writer's imagination, usually made up of characters, plot, setting, etc.

A pattern of end rhymes that occurs consistently throughout a stanza or poem.

A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery

Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

A phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem.