CSET English

A literary work in which all or most of the characters, events and settings stand for ideas or generalizations about life. Allegories usually have a moral lesson.

The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words, as in these lines from Coleridge: "The fair breeze flew, the white foamflew,/The furrow followed free."

A reference to a well-known person, place, or situation from history or from art, music, or another work of literature - for example, the characters adam, Aron, and Cal in Steinbeck's East of Eden has allusions to Adam, Abel and Cain in Genesis.

A comparison of two things that are alike in some way.

A short narative about an interesting, often to make a point

The assignment of human characteristics to an animal, inanimate object or god.

A wise saying, usually short and to the point, as Hippocrates' "Life is short, art is long." Also known as a epigram or maxim.

A figure of speech is which a speaker addresses an absent person, an inanimate object, or an idea-for example, Byron's line "Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll!"

A symbol, image, plot pattern, or character type that occurs often in literature, such as the hero on a dangerous quest.

The repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds, as in the first line of Poe's "Lenore": "Ah broken is the golden bowl-the spirit flown forever!"

The dominant mood or feeling of a literary work.

A narrative song or poem.

Poetry or lines of dramatic verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

A pause or break in the meter or rhythm of a line of verse, marked in prosody by a double vertical line, as in this example from Tennyson: "Ring out the old, II ring in the new,/ Ring, happy bells, II across the snow."

The rhythmis rise and fall or oral language.