Senior Eng. Term Review

the writer’s use of language to reflect his or her unique personality and attitude toward the topic, form, and audience

An imaginary compound used in place of an ordinary noun.

Analysis of Meter

A regular rhythmic pattern in poetry, determined by the number of beats in each line

Speech by a single character

A poem composed of 14 lines in iambic pentameter is a sonnet

A pause between the two halves of a line

Rhythmical Units

A sestet is seven lines

Group of lines in a poem

The pattern of beats, or stresses, in a line of verse

A repeated line or group of lines

When one thing is spoken as if it were another

An expression in which something of importance is emphasized by being spoken of as though it were not important.

Intentional reuse of a sound, word, or phrase

Deliberate exaggeration made for effect

Conversation involving two or more characters

Highly musical type of poetry that expresses the emotions of speaker

Repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end w/ different consonant sounds.

Tells a story

Type of lyric poem that mourns the dead

Relies heavily on dramatic elements

Two Lines

An English sonnet is also called a Petrarchan Sonnet

Elaborate and fanciful analogies or metaphors

Eight lines

A slant rhyme are rhyming words that sound similar but not identical.

Tells tales of gods and heroes, contains intricate plots and many characters.

An Italian Sonnet

A traditional form of narrative poetry that may be recited or sung

Repetition of consonant sounds

The pattern of end rhymes, or rhyming words at the end of lines/verse

Four Lines

a work in which characters, events, or settings symbolize something else is an allegory