any of composition in lines of more or less regular rhythm

from the Greek word(flow). a flow of words and signifying the basic pattern in language that is established by stressed syllables, unstressed syllables and pauses.

(most common use)any fairly short poem, uttered by a single speaker who expresses a state of mind or a process of perception, thought, feeling. many solitude. originally poem sung to the music of a lyre. lyrics. one of the oldest literary expression in English. uttered in the first person but I don’t need to be the poet.

the attitude of the author toward the reader, audience or subject matter of a literary work. serious mocking ... is equated with voice, in the sense of a creative authorial voice that pervades and underlies literary work.

two or more words that contain an identical or similar vowel sound, usually accented, with following consonant sounds. ->end, internal

the speaker in a literary work, often a first-person narrator. although the persona serves as the voice of the author, the two should not be conflated, for the persona may not accurately reflect the author’s personal opinions, feelings or perspective on a subject

the more or less regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. is determined by the foot and by the number of feet per line

the basic unit of poetic meter, consisting of any of various fixed patterns of one to three stressed and unstressed syllables

a metrical foot in poetry that consists of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. the most common metrical foot in English poetry.

a contradiction or incongruity between appearance(expectation) and reality. this disparity may be manifested in a variety of ways

a statement that seems self-contradictory or nonsensical on the surface but that, upon closer examination, may be seen to contain an underlying truth

french(striding over). poetic statement that spans more than one line. line exibiting enjambment do not end with grammatical breaks, and their sense is not complete without the following line. such lines are distinguished from end-stopped lines(is complete in itself)

a word or sequence of words that refers to any sensory experience(visual auditory tactile)

a collective set of images in a poem

avant-garde, Anglo-american movement that emphasized concise, direct expression and the presentation of clear, precise images

a Japanese poetic form that represents the poet’s emotional or spiritual response to a natural object,scene, or season of the year. in 17 syllables that are ordered into 3 lines.

repeated consonant sounds (often initial consonant sounds or at the beginning of stressed syllables). to create powerful musical effects and to highlight key words, concepts, relationships

from Greek(manifestation, showing forth) a term used to describe the insight or revelation gained when one suddenly understands the essence of an object, gesture, statement, moment, or mentality

a literary device involving unusual use of language. to associate or compare distinct things. typically departs from the usual order of words or from their literal meaning to create an image in the reader’s mind

language that uses figure of speech

a figure of speech in which human characteristics are bestowed upon anything nonhuman, from an abstract idea to a physical force to an inanimate object to a living organism

a kind of figure of speech. bold overstatement. the extravagant expression of fact or of possibility. be used either serious or ironic or comic effect

from Italian(little song). a lyric poem that consists of 14 lines(usually printed as a single stanza). address a range of issues or themes, but love(original subject of the sonnet) is perhaps still the most common

is divided into three quatrains and a couplet (rhyming abab cdcd efef gg)

a stanza containing four lines

two successive lines of rhyming verse

most common meter. five iambic feet per line

a statement that one thing is something else, which in a literal sense, it is not. by asserting that a thing is something else. creates a close association between the two entities and usually underscores some important similarity between them. (dead, extended)

a comparison of two things, indicated by some connective, usually ‘like, as, than’ or a verb such as ‘resembles’. usually compare two things that initially seem unlike but are shown to have a significant resemblance.

a metrical foot in poetry that consists of two stressed syllables. rare.

a play on words that capitalizes on a similarity of spelling or pronunciation between words that have different meanings. employ one word that has multiple meanings. used to comic effect