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Poetry Key Terms
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word |
| mood | the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
| Connotation | the feelings or emotions surrounding a word |
| imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |
| simile | comparison using like or as |
| euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor |
| metaphor | a strong comparison by saying one thing "is" another; example "You are the thunder; I am the lightning." |
| onomatopoeia | a word that names the sound it makes; example: Pop! Fizz! |
| tone | the author's attitude toward the subject |
| irony | when a writer writes one thing but means another |
| personification | giving human or animal characteristics to an inanimate object; example "the sea growled and roared" |
| litotes | extreme understatement EX: Tests have little affect on my grade. |
| magic three | A writing technique where the author uses a list of three parallel structures EX: For my daughter's birthday, we are going to Great Wolf Lodge, getting her ear's pierced, and eating a celebratory dinner. |
| dashes for information | A writing technique that interrupts the sentences to add information. Dashes can be in the middle of the sentence - or at the end, like this. |
| idiom | a phrase that has lost its original meaning; it cannot be translated literally |
| genre | a form or type of literary work such as sci-fi, mystery, or romance |
| point of view | the relationship between the narrator and the characters and action in the story; ex. 1st or 3rd person |
| symbol | a person, place, or object that has meaning itself but suggests other meanings as well; such as the color red is a color but can also represent love, anger, or blood |
| theme | the underlying meaning of a literary work that the writer wants the reader to get out of their writing |
| figurative language | language expanded beyond its ordinary literal meaning |
| allusion | a brief reference to another literary work, song, movie, popular culture |
| alliteration | repetition of the beginning sound in a word (a little like listening to Lola) |
| assonance | the repetition of a vowel sound in the middle of a set of words |
| end line rhyme | when words rhyme at the end of each line (or in a pattern) |
| internal rhyme | when words within a line rhyme |
| stanza | a "paragraph" in poetry |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of end-line rhymes in a poem |
| meter | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables (beats) in a poem |
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