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Poetry Vocab
Term | Definition |
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anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase, usually at the beginning of a line |
alliteration | the repetition of beginning consonant sounds in a sequence of words |
apostrophe | a poem that is a direct address to an absent or otherwise unresponsive entity (someone or something dead, imaginary, abstract, or inanimate) |
assonance | the repetition of vowel - sounds |
consonance | the repetition of consonant - sounds |
couplet | two lines of verse, usually rhymed |
diction | word choice, specifically the "class" or "kind" of words chosen |
elegy | since the 17th century, usually denotes a reflective poem that laments the loss of something or someone |
enjambed line | a "run-on" line that carries over into the next to complete its meaning |
end-stopped line | a line that ends with a punctuation mark and whose meaning is complete |
irony | when the opposite of what you expect to happen happens |
free verse | poetry with no established rhyme, rhythm, meter, or beat |
imagry | the visual (or other sensory) pictures used to render a description more vivid and immediate |
synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole, e.g. "wheels" for "car" |
simile | a figure of speech that compares two distinct things by using a connective word such as "like" or "as" |
speaker | the "I" of a poem, equivalent to the "narrator" of a prose text |
stanza | a "paragraph" of a poem: a group of lines separated by extra white space from other groups of lines |
symbol | an image that stands for something larger and more complex, often something abstract, such as an idea or sets of attitudes |
conceit | extended metaphor |
metaphor | a direct comparison between two seemingly unlike things |
tone | the author's attitude toward the reader, addressee, or subject matter |