| A | B |
|---|
| metaphor | on thing is spokn as something else/comparison |
| conceit | unusual comparison between two very different things |
| vehicle | In a metaphor - actual thing referred to |
| tenor | In a metaphor - idea used to interperet vehicle |
| similie | a comparison using like or as |
| symbol | stands for or represents something else |
| allusion | a reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art |
| personification | taking something nonhuman and giving it human traits |
| apostrophe | a speaker directly addresses an absent person |
| deification | act or instance of making something godly |
| heroic couplet | Iambic pentameter, two rhyming lines, two lines are complete sentences |
| iambic | unstressed, stressed |
| pentameter | 5 iambic feet |
| tetrameter | 4 iambic feet |
| trimeter | 3 iambic feet |
| enjambment | no puncuntuation at end of line in poetry |
| caesura | a pause or break in the middle of a line in poetry |
| end-stopped line | the end of a line coincides with a pause or with the end of a thought |
| alliteration | repetition of consonance in same part of word |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| consonance | repetition of consonance sunds |
| sibilance | repetition of hissing sounds (s, sh, z, x, ch,c) |
| paradox | statemen contrary to common belief |
| oxymoron | combines two opposing ideas |
| oratory | public speaking that is formal, persuasive, and emotionally appealing |
| rhetorical question | A question that does not require an answer |
| parallelism | repetition of grammatical structures |
| repetition | repeated use of any element of language |
