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poetry terms
Glossary terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | the repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together Ex: The sneaky, slippery, snake |
| Allusion | A reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or some other branch of culture |
| Context Clues | Using words surrounding unknown words to determine their meaning |
| Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that work together |
| Drawing Conclusions | Use written cues to figure out something that is not directly stated |
| Free verse | Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| Haiku | Presents a vivid picture and the poet's impression, sometimes with suggestions of spiritual insight. The traditional haiku id three lines long: the first line is five syllables, the second line is seven syllables, and the third line is five syllables |
| Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses incredible exaggeration, or overstatement, for effect Ex: I could eat a thousands hamburgers right now |
| Imagery | The use of language to evoke a picture |
| Inferring | Giving a logical guess based on the facts or evidence presented using prior knowledge to help ''read between the line''. |
| Irony | In general, it is the difference between the way something appears and what is actually true |
| Meaning | What is the poem about |
| Mood | the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggest its meaning Ex: Boom! Snash! Pow! Pssst. Ssshh! |
| Pattern | a combination of the organization of lines, rhyme schemes, stanzas, rhyme , and meter (There are an innumerable variety of patterns in poetry) |
| Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes Ex: My computer stared at me, deciding if it wanted to cooperate |
| Reading | Give the reader more than one chance to make sense of challenging text. |
| Rhyme/ Rhyme Scheme | The repetition of vowel sounds in accented syllables and all succeeding syllables. The pattern of rhymes in a poem is called a rhyme scheme |
| Rhyme | A rise and fall of the voice produce by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language |
| Setting | The time and place of the action |
| Simile | A figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things, using the word like or as Ex: my shoes were like falcons, enabling me to fly across the basketball court |
| Sonnet | a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter |
| Speaker | The imaginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem |
| Stanza | A group of lines in a poem considered as a unit. Stanzas often unction like paragraphs in prose. Each stanza states and develops a single main idea |
| Summarizing | Guide the reader to organize and restate info, usually in written form |
| Symbols | A person, place, thing or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself Ex: The eagle is a bird, but it is also the symbol for America freedom, liberty and justice |
| Theme | The central message or insight into life revealed through the poem |
| Tone | The attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience |
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