Poetic Terms:

1) Allusion--an indirect reference to another work of art, a person, or an event

2) Apostrophe--a direct address to someone or something

3) Couplet--two consecutive lines of poetry rhyming

4) Explication--a method of explaining; a theme of explication involves the explanation of a meaning or meanings in a word of literature.

5) Eye Rime--two lines of poetry that appear to rhyme, but when spoken do not

6) Imagery--the use of words or groups of words tht refer to the senses and sensory experiences.

7) Methaphor--an implicit comparison of a feeling or object with another unlike it. (He is a snake in the grass.)

8) Paraphrase--a restatement in our own words of what we understand a poem or a passage from another form of literature to say.

9) Personification--a figure of speech in which nonhuman objects are given human characteristics. (The car died on the hill.)

10) Pastoral--favorable treatment of rural life

11) Poetry--a form of writing in which the author writes in lines using either a metrical pattern or free verse.

12) Simile--a comparison of a feeling or object with another unlike it, using the term "like" or "as". (He eats like a horse.)

13) Theme--the message, or main idea, of a literary work.

14) Tone--the expression of a writer's attitude toward a subject in a literary work and the creation of a mood that work.

Literature II Additional Terms

1) Assonance—similar vowel sounds repeated in successive words

2) Alliteration—similar consonant sounds repeated in successive words

3) Slant Rhyme—same vowel sounds, but different ending consonant sounds

4) Dissonance—deliberate use of inharmonious syllables, words or phrases in order to create a harsh-toned effect

5) Free verse—no formal meter or rhyme pattern

6) Figurative language—allegory, apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, litotes, metonymy, personification, simile, synecdoche

7) Rhythm—the beat or pattern of stresses