A | B |
Caesura | // Pause in a line of poetry |
Canto | Subdivision of epic poem |
Classicism | From Greek and Rome, Focus on harmony, restraint, rules |
Romantacism | Focus on emotional impact |
Conceit | Far fetched metaphor or simile, comparing two dissimaliar things |
Concrete Poem | Talking about an apple in the shape of an apple |
Consonance | Same consonants with different vowels |
Alliteration | Same beginning sounds, Stressed syllables |
Denouement | Follows the climax, Leads to the resolution |
Epic | Major work or poem, Important theme like gods and heroes |
Epigraph | Brief quote at the beginning of a literary work |
Epithet | Before or after a character's name to describe |
Euphemism | Substituting a less direct word |
Exposition | Essential information of what happened before the start of something |
Falling Action | After the climax |
Farce | Comedy based on humorous situation like robber hiding in police station |
Foil | Character in sharp contrast to another character |
Foot | Unit of rhyme, Two or more syllables |
Iamb | Unstress + Stressed Syllables |
Anapest | 2 Unstressed + Stressed Syllables |
Foreshadow | Hint of what is to come |
Haiku | 17 syllables 5, 7, 5 |
Imagry | Appeal to one or more senses |
Inference | Conclusion based on facts or circumstances, Judgement based on reasoning |