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Literary Terms
Stanza: A group of lines of verse usually set away from other groups by a space. The stanzas of a poem often have the same internal pattern of rhymes
Symbol: Something representing something else; a material object representing something, like an emblem, token, or sign.
Sonnet: A 14-line verse form poem usually having one of several rhyme patterns.
Assonance: Rhyme where the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants as in penitent and reticence.
Couplet: A pair of lines of verse, esp. a pair that rhyme and are of the same length.
Onomatopoeia: The use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
Allusion: a reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text.
Tone: Any sounds quality, pitch, strength, source, etc. eg. shrill tones.
Euphony: The agreeableness of a sound; pleasing effect to the ear, especially a pleasant sounding or harmonious combination of words.
Simile: A figure of speech where two unlike things are compared, as in “she is like a rose.”
Alliteration: The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words as in "on scrolls of silver snowy sentences" (Hart Crane).
Metaphor: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, as in "a sea of troubles" or "All the world's a stage" (Shakespeare).
Imagery: : The use of vivid language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.
Analogy: A similarity between some of the features of two things, on which a comparison can be made eg. the analogy between the heart and a pump.
Personification: Representation of a thing as the form of a person.
