Poetry terminology
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| ALLITERATION | The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. | ||||
| ANTONYM | Words that are opposite in meaning | ||||
| ASSONANCE | The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or line of poetry | ||||
| CONNOTATION | The personal or emotional association called up by a word that go beyond its dictionary meaning. | ||||
| DENOTATION | The dictionary meaning of a word | ||||
| FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE | A form of language use in which writers and speakers mean something other than the literal meaning of the word | ||||
| FORM | The arrangement, manner, or method used to convey the content, such as free verse, limmerick, or haiku. | ||||
| FREE VERSE: | Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme | ||||
| HOMONYM | Two or more distinct words with the same pronunciation and spelling but two different meanings | ||||
| HOMOPHONE | Two or more words with the same pronunciation but with different meaning and spellings. | ||||
| HYPERBOLE | An exaggeration of the truth. | ||||
| IMAGE | A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or an idea. | ||||
| IMAGERY | Figurative language used to create particular mental images. | ||||
| METAPHOR | An association of two completely different objects as being the same thing. | ||||
| METER | The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems. | ||||
| RHYME | The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. | ||||
| RHYTHM | The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse. | ||||
| SETTING | The time and place of a literary work that established its context. | ||||
| SIMILE | A figure of speech invoking a comparison between unlike things using "like," "as," or "as though." | ||||
| STRUCTURE | The design or form or a literary work. | ||||
| SYMBOL | An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. | ||||
| SYNONYM | A word or words that have the same or nearly the same meaning. | ||||
| TONE | The implied attitude of a writer (or speaker) toward the subject and characters of a work. |
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Created by:
Apellegrini7
on 2010-11-07