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Poetic Terms - Sara
Poetic Terms & Examples
Term & Definition | Example |
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imagery-A vivid descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the 5 senses. | The eerie silence was shattered by her scream. |
onomatopoeia-the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named | sniff, boom, pow |
setting-The time and place of the poem's action | "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood..." (a forest, a cementery, a house) |
The time and place of the poem's action-A person who communicates vocally in a language; One who speaks, the voice of a poem. | Martin Luther King Jr.- Was a motivational speaker. |
alliteration-repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words | on scrolls of silver snowy sentences |
allusion-A passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either direct or by implication. | Chocolate was her Achilie's heel. |
personification-inhuman objects that have human qualities | The tree whispered silently while the wind harassed the air. |
assonance- Repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences . | And round about the keel with faces pale,dark faces pale against that rosy flame. (Pale) (Flame) |
consonance-Correspondence of sounds; repetition of consonant sounds | Mammals named Sam are clammy. (m is repeated) |
caesura-A pause in the poem that depicts a punctuation usually next to an enjambment. marked with // | The gruel of muds and weeds in a mauled lane Smelled sweet like blood. // birds have died or flown, (blood. // birds) |
couplet-a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length | The wind blew very strong / as we scurried along! |
end rhyme-rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry | Whose woods these are I think I know / His house is in the village though. |
internal rhyme-A line that consists of more than 2 rhymes on the same line | The cat ate the bat, and just sat. |
enjambment-The continuation of a sentence on the next stanza or couplet. | The holy time is quiet as a Nun,/ Breathless with adoration; the broad sun/ Is sinking down in its tranquility. (the sentence continues beyond the line breaks) |
stanza-lines or paragraphs that consist of a verse of a poem | "I love to write Day and night What would my heart do But cry, sigh and be blue If I could not write (5 lines in 1 stanza)" |
hyperbole-obvious and intentional exaggeration | I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. |
tone-a poems attitude that is implied by the writing. The tone of a peom can be the same through out and it can also change inbetween one peom | "The Happy Grass"a poem by brian patten, has a tone of hope towards the prospects of peace that the grass represents |
symbolism-an idea,place, or action that stands for something | flying stands for freedom |
antithesis-A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else | Milk and Juice, PC and Mac, Pokemon and Digimon. Traditional Drawing and Digital Drawing are some of the things that are opposite from each other |
point of view- The attitude or outlook of a narrator or character in a piece of literature, a movie, or another art form. | 1st Person - I love my new shoes. 2nd Person- You come here with that. 3rd Person- He was prepared for class. |
Simile-To compare two or more things using the word like or as | Kevin is as beast as a full grown husky. |
rhythm-The pattern or flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables | Whose woods these are I think I know (unstressed, stressed, unstressed, stressed, unstressed, stressed, unstressed, stressed.) |
meter- The measured arrangement of words in poetry, as by accentual rhythm, syllabic quantity, or the number of syllables in a line. | Water, water every where and all the boards did shrink; Water, water every where nor any drop to drink. |
metaphor-A term or phrase that in not literal to relate to something | Life is a Mountian, filled with switchbacks and road slides |
mood-How the poem makes the reader or listener feel. | When I read "We Real Cool" I felt like I was outside a pool hall (sneaking a peek at the "bad boys." |
theme- the abstract concept explored in a literary work | The message of we real cool is to stay in school or it's a slippery slope to trouble,. |