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14 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Speaker
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The voice that is talking to you in this poem.
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Extended Metaphor
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Metaphors that are often extended over several lines of a poem and taken as far as they can logically go.
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Dialect
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Way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people.
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Connotation
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All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests.
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Denotation
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same literal meaning
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Subjective Statement
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personal, feelings and judgements.
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Objective Statement
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statements that can be proved to be true.
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Tone
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The attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character.
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Aphorism
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a wise saying for another popular didatic.
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Indirect characterization
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-describing how the character looks and dresses, letting you hear the character speak, letting you listen to the character's inner thoughts and feelings, revealing what other people think or say about the character, showing the character's actions.
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Direct characterization
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Telling you directly what the character is like (generous, deceitul, timid, and so on...)
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Dramatic monologue
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a character gives a dramatic speech to a group of factors on a stage.
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free verse
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using no regular meter or rhyme scheme.
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Blank verse
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Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
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