paean a tribute or praise song.
paradox an unusual statement of truth through obvious contradiction.
parallelism the use of similar grammatical structures.
pastoral a literary work stressing rural events and characters.
personification a phrase that gives human thought and feeling to an abstract idea, being, or object.
Petrarchan sonnet a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter comprised of an octave to a sestet and rhyming in some variation of abbaabbacdecde.
pun a witty remark comparing words with similar meanings or sounds.
quatrain a four-line stanza.
realism a literary re-creation of life in action, setting, atmosphere, and character.
rhyme scheme the arrangement of rhymes at the ends of a series of lines.
rhythm a natural arrangement of stresses in a line of verse.
