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Cards In This Set
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Ballad
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Song/songlike poem that tells a story
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Folk ballad
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Composed by anonymous singers and passed down orally from generation to generation before being written down.
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Literary ballad
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Composed and written down by poets, usually in folk ballad style
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Incremental repetition
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Device widely used in ballads where line(s) are repeated with slight variation from stanza to stanza
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Quatrain
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Four line stanza or poem or group of four lines unified by rhyme scheme
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Romance
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Medieval verse narrative chronicling adventures of brave knight or hero who must undertake quest and overcome great danger for love of noble lady or high ideal
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Allegory
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Story in which characters, setting, and events stand for abstract or moral concepts
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Meter
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Generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
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Figure of speech
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Word/phrase that describes one thing in terms of another, dissimilar thing, and is not meant to be understood literally
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Alliteration
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Repetition of consonant sounds in words close to one another
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Antithesis
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Contrast of ideas expressed in grammatically balanced statement
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Aphorism
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Concise, sometimes witty saying that expresses principle, truth, or observation about life.
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Archetype
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Pattern that appear in literature across cultures and is repeated through the ages. can be character, plot, image, or setting.
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Aside
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Private words that a character in a play speaks to audience or another character that are not supposed to be heard by others onstage
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Assonance
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Repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words close together
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