A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.

The captain is to his ship as the leader is to his tribe.

A fish is to swimming as a bird is to flying.

Meter that is composed of feet that are short-short-long or unaccented-unaccented-accented, usually used in light or whimsical poetry, such as a limerick.

The following lines from Dr. Seuss' Yertle the Turtle are examples, showing both a complete line of anapestic tetrameter and a line with the first beat omitted:

"And today the Great Yertle,
That marvelous he
Is King of the Mud.
That is all he can see."

We can notate the scansion of this as follows:

A wise saying, usually short and written.

Lost time is never found again. — Benjamin Franklin 
Greed is a permanent slavery. — Ali

A turn from the general audience to address a specific group of person (or a personified abstraction) who is present or absent.

For example, in a recent performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Hamlet turned to the audience and spoke directly to one woman and his father's death.

A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another.

For example, white stripes

Unrhymed verse, often occurring in iambic pentameter and resembles normal speech

Excerpt from Macbeth
by
William Shakespeare

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, 
To the last syllable of recorded time; 
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools 
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! 
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player 
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage 
And then is heard no more: it is a tale 
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, 
Signifying nothing.

An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power.

Example - "dead as a doormat" and "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."

Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels.

For example - "stroke of luck"

Specialized language used in a particular field or content area.

For example - educational jargon includes differentiated instruction, cooperative learning and authentic assessment.

Also known as a run-on line in poetry, enjambment occurs when one line ends and continues onto the net line to complete meaning.

For example - 

My life has been the poem I would have writ

but I could not both live and utter it.

A type of pun, or play on words, that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind.

For example, "Don't put the horse before the cart."

The use of sound words to suggest meaning.

Example - buzz, click, vroom

A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms.

Example, deafening silence

A contradictory statement that makes sense.

Example - Hegel's paradox "Man learns from history that man learns nothing from history."

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During the mid-19th century (1800's), several writers and intellectuals worked together to write, translate works,and publish and became known as transcendentalists.  Their philosophy focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism.  They valued individualism, freedom, experimentation and spirituality.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, hendry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wndell Holmes

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