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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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