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Literary Terms

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symbol   Anything that stands for or represents something else.  
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narrative poem   A poem that tells a story.  
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dramatic monologue   A poem in which a fictional character directly expresses his or her thoughts in a situation.  
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Rhythm   The pattern of beats or stresses in language.  
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Rhyme Scheme   A regular pattern of the rhyming words at the end of each line in a poem. Letters are used to indicate the pattern. abab....  
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Mood   The atmosphere or feeling created in the reader by a literary work.  
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Haiku   3 lines of verse 1st and 3rd lines have 5 syllables and the 2nd has 7. Use of striking images (2) of nature, senses.  
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Sonnets   A lyric poem of 14 lines called Shakespearean sonnet.  
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Petrarchan sonnet   Consists of 8 lines and a sestet (6 lines)  
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Verse   Lines in a poem.  
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Romantic Movement   Early 1800's movement that emphasized the importance of the emotions, the imagination, and an appreciation of nature.  
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Lyric Poem   Poems that use simple language to memorialize remarkable moments of everyday life. They have a musical quality.  
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Rhymed iambic pentameter   10 syllable lines in which every second syllable is accented.  
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Prose   Ordinary form of written language that is not poetry , drama, or song.  
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Metaphor   Comparisons between very different objects without using like or as.  
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Extended Metaphor   Several comparisons are made in the same poem or over several lines.  
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quatrain   4 lines of a poem together  
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couplet   2 lines together in a poem  
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Stanza   Formal division of lines in a poem.  
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Parallel Structure   Details that are parallel in meaning and expressed in the same form.  
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Poetic Contractions   Words in which a letter is replaced by an apostrophe.  
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Inverted Word Order   Do not follow normal Subject-Verb-Complement pattern.  
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Simile   Comparisons between very different objects using like or as.  
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Personification   Gives human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea.  
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Paraphrase   Restate a writer’s words in words of your own.  
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Imagery   Language that paints a picture in the readers’ minds.  
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Insights   Deeper meanings gained from observing or analyzing.  
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Onomatopoeia   Words that sound like they are written.  
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Repetition   Repeating words or lines for emphasis.  
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Alliteration   Repetition of first consonant sounds.  
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Sound Devices   Create musical effects in poems or writing.  
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End punctuation   Periods, question marks, and exclamation marks–often indicate meaning or feeling in poems.  
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Dramatic Poetry   Poetry in which the lines are spoken by one or more characters.  
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Speaker   Voice of the poem.  
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Allusion   A reference to a well known person or work.  
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Analogy   A comparison between two or more things that are similar in some ways but otherwise unalike.  
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Assonance   Repetition of vowel sounds.  
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Blank Verse   Poetry written without rhyme  
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Epic   A long narrative poem.  
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Foreshadowing   Clues that predict events that have not happened yet.  
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Meter   Rhythmical pattern determined by stresses and beats in each line.  
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Internal Rhyme   Rhyming words occur on the same line.  
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Theme   Central message or insight of a work (work may contain many themes).  
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Tone   Writer’s attitude toward his or her audience and subject.  
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