Asselta Terms 1-19

Allegory

A tale in verso or pros in which the characters represent abstract ideas or morale qualities

Alliteration

Repetition of initial consonants sounds

Analogy

A comparison between two objects for the purpose of showing similarities

Anapest

A poetic foot of two unstressed followed by a stressed

Antagonist

character that encourages the conflict

Antithesis

The balance of two contrasting thoughts, words, or phrases

Apostrophy

A poetic device in which the writer directly addresses a person, place, or thing as if it were present

Aside

A speech in plays which is intended for the audience, not for other characters on stage

Assonace

Repition of vowel sounds

Autobiographies

Story of your life as you write it

Biography

Story of your life written by someone else

Ballad

A poem that tells a story in 4 line stanzas, 2nd and 4th lines rhyme

Folk Ballad

Earliest Ballads and we don’t know the authors

Blank verse

Poetic lines in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Cae-sura

forward slash, break or pause in a line of poetry

Canto

A section or division of a poem

Climax

Decisive point; point of most intensity where you find out what will happen always at the end of the story

Consonance

Repetition of consonant sounds

Literary Ballad

Imitation of Folk Ballad but we know the author