Poetry Terms
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| alliteration | repetition of the initial consonant sounds (peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers)**alliteration is a TYPE of consonance**
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| assonance | The repetition or a pattern of similar sounds, especially vowel sounds
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| blank verse | Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Shakespeare wrote most of his plays in blank verse.
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| consonance | The repetition of similar consonant sounds, especially at the ends of words, as in lost and past or confess and dismiss.
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| denotation | the literal meaning of the word
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| onomatopoeia | words that imitate the sounds they describe**boom**moo**cock a doodle do**whoosh
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| enjambment | The continuation of a complete idea (a sentence or clause) from one line or couplet of a poem to the next line or couplet without a pause.“I think that I shall never see/A poem as lovely as a tree.”
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| personification | giving human qualities to inanimate objects
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| simile | a comparison using like or as
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| stanza | a division or unit of a poem (like a paragraph or chapter)
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| free verse | poetry without a regular rhyme pattern
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| connotation | figurative meaning of the word
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| diction | the selection of words in a literary work
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| rhythm | the beat of the poem
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| syntax | the order of the words in a sentence or line(think EE cummings-eddieandbill)
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| tone | attitude of the writer
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| iambic pentameter | •Ten syllables in each line•Five pairs of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables •The rhythm in each line sounds like: ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM
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| slant rhyme | half rhyme
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| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds
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