Words | Definition | Part of Speech | Example or Sentence |
Alliteration | The commencement of two or more stressed syllables | noun | Example:The boy became bad because of the people around him. |
Assonance | Rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words | Noun | Examples:Time and light or mystery and mastery |
Ballad | A simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing | noun | Sentence:How do you write a ballad? |
Climax | A major turning point in the plot | noun | Sentence:Don’t you love the climax of a story? |
Conflict | To come into collision or disagreement | verb | Sentence:A conflict is just the problem of a story. |
Epic Poem | Poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero | noun | Sentence:I read an epic poem on a war. |
Exposition | The act of expounding, setting forth, or explaining | noun | Sentence:I created an exposition on a poem that I made up. |
Falling Action | The part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved | noun | Sentence:Can this be a falling action? -- The girl found everything she lost. |
Figurative Language | Language that contains or uses figure of speech | noun | Sentence:What is figurative language? |
Form | A shape of a thing or person | noun | Sentence:I can make a form of you. |
Free Verse | Verse that does not follow metrical pattern | Noun | Sentence:I learned about a free verse poem. |
Haiku | A major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5,7,5 syllables | noun | Sentence:I love to write haiku poems, there so easy to write. |
Humor | The faculty of expressing the amusing or comical | noun | Example:Did u get the humor in the joke? |
Hyperbole | Obvious and intentional exaggeration | noun | Example:To wait an eternity |
Idiom | An expression whose meaning is not predictable from he usually...