APE Key Terms #4

The analysis of verse to show its meter.

poem form of three-line stanzas aba bcb cdc

A direct comparison of two things, using words like or as to draw a connection.

The organization or arrangement of the various elements in a work.

The repetition of the same or similar sounds, most often at the ends of lines.

A drama in which a character is brought to a disastrous end.

Characterization based on assumptions

The inferred central idea or concern of a work; a statement the poem makes about its subject.

Literature which attempts, through attention to details, to describe nature and life exactly

A monologue in which the character is alone and speaking only to themselves.

A repeated stanza or line in a poem or song.

The speaker; the “person” telling the story or poem.

A form of verbal irony in which apparent praise is actually harshly critical.

The attitude a literary work takes toward its subject

A poetic stanza of four lines.

The modulation of stressed and unstressed elements in a the flow of speech.

A poem form which includes three quatrains and a couplet. (ababcdcdefefgg)

Metrical form where a foot consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.

Concrete poetry; poetry that is shaped to look like an object.

The way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences.

The development of action in a work.

Literature which holds up human failings to ridicule and censure.

An individual who appears in a number of stories (cruel stepmother, witch)

A verse form consisting of nineteen lines divided into six stanzas.

A person, place, event, or pattern that figuratively represents something else.

When a part is used to signify a whole.