Poetry Terms

writer's or speaker's attitude toward his subject, his audience, or himself; the emotional coloring, or emotional meaning of a work

The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage

Word choice, including the vocabulary used, the appropriateness of the words, and the vividness of the language

What is the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word?

What a word suggests beyond its basic definition; a word's overtones of meaning.

A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history

Repetition of the initial consonant sound

a word that imitates the sound it represents

repetition of consonants other than at the beginning of words