Poetic Terminology

3. a central or recurring image or action in a literary work that is shared by other works.
7. a brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement.
9. a phrase or line recurring at intervals.
11. word choice, specifically the "class" or "kind" of words chosen.
12. an extended metaphor in which the characters, places, and objects in a narrative carry figurative meaning.
13. direct address to an absent or otherwise unresponsive entity (someone or something dead, imaginary, abstract, or inanimate).
14. a figure of speech composed of a striking exaggeration.

1. a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole.
2. Italian word for “turn” of thought or argument.
4. implies a distance between what is said and what is meant.
5. a figure of speech in which something is represented by another thing that is commonly and often physically associated with it.
6. as a figure of speech, it is a seemingly self-contradictory phrase or concept that illuminates a truth.
8. a deliberate understatement for effect; the opposite of hyperbole.
10. an image that stands for something larger and more complex, often something abstract, such as an idea or a set of attitudes.