Unit 5: Analyze Literature

Motivation is a force that moves a character to think, feel, or behave in a certain way.

Imagery is the figurative or descriptive language used to create word pictures, or images.

Rhythm is the pattern of beats, or stresses, in a line of verse or prose, which can be regular or irregular.

Meter is a regular rhythmic pattern in poetry.

A dramatic monologue is a poem that presents the speech of a single character in a dramatic situation.

An allusion is a figure of speech in which a reference is made to a person, event, object, or work from history or literature.

A stanza is a group of lines in a poem.

A symbol is anything that stands for or represents both itself and something else.

Sensory details are words and phrases that describe how things look, sound, smell, taste, or feel.

Parallelism is a rhetorical technique in which a writer emphasizes the equal value or weight of two or more ideas by expressing them in the same grammatical form.

The speaker is the character who speaks in, or narrates, a poem—the voice assumed by the writer.

A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem, usually written in iambic pentameter.

An allegory is a work in which characters, events, or settings symbolize, or represent, something else.

Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds. Although alliteration usually refers to sounds at the beginning of words, it also can be used to refer to sounds within words.

Repetition is the writer’s intentional reuse of a sound, word, phrase, or sentence.