Analysing literature
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- Simile
- Figure of speech that compares two dissimilar things using the key words LIKE or AS
- Narrative poem
- Tells a story in verse (poetic form)
- Personification
- Figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
- Triplet
- A three line stanza
- Personae
- A fictional self created by an author - a self through whom the narrative of a poem or story is told
- XYZ poem
- A poem in which each line begins with a consecutive letter of the alphabet
- Alliteration
- The repetition of initial consonant sounds
- Tanka
- This five-lined poem with a syllable pattern of 5,7,5,7,7
- Ballad
- Poetry that tells a story to music, usually a slow song, often dealing with adventure or romance
- Imagery
- Descriptive language used to recreate sensory experiences
- Cinquain
- A five-lined poem with a syllable pattern of 2,4,6,8,2 or uses a grammatical pattern
- Ode
- A poem that praises something
- Couplet
- A pair of rhyming lines
- Lyric poem
- Expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker
- End-stopped line
- Poetry that concludes with a break in the meter and meaning at the end of a line (has punctuation)
- Onomatopoeia
- The use of words to imitate sounds
- Metaphor
- Figure of speech in which one thing is spoken as if it were something else
- Haiku
- A three-lined poem using a syllable pattern of 5,7,5 or a total of 17 syllables
- Rhyme scheme
- A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem or stanza
- Blank verse
- Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines
- Quatrain
- A four line stanza
- Free verse
- Poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter
- Run-on line
- A line that does not contain a pause or a stop at the end (no punctuation)
- Repetition
- The use, more than once, of any element of language - a sound, word, phrase, etc.
- Assonance
- The repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables containing dissimilar consonant sounds