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jenkins poetry
poetic devices
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| alliteration | The repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. Alliteration is a poetic sound device. |
| allusion | a reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, or science. |
| figure of speech | a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true (simile, metaphors, personification) |
| free verse | poetry without a regular meter or a rhyme scheme |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| metaphor | an imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing. |
| extended metaphor | a metaphor that is developed, or extended, through several lines of writing or even throughout an entire poem. |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds echo their sense. (onomatopoeia is a poetic sound device) |
| personification | A figure of speech in which a nonhuman or nonliving thing or quality is talked about as if it were human or alive. |
| poetry | a kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to emotion and imagination |
| elegy | a poem that mourns the passing of something that is important to the writer. |
| narrative poem | a poem that tells a story, it has a plot, characters, and setting |
| epic poem | long narrative poem telling about a hero's deeds |
| ballad | a narrative poem written to show the reader dramatic events |
| lyric poem | major form of poetry that expresses feelings |
| sonnet | a lyric poem of 14 lines and follows a strict form |
| ode | a type of lyric poem that celebrates something and is lighthearted. |
| refrain | a group of words repeated at intervals in a poem, song, or speech. |
| rhyme | repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words close together in a poem |
| rhythm | a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns |
| simile | a comparison between two unlike things using the words like or as |
| stanza | in a poem a group of consecutive lines that forms a single unit |
| symbol | a person, a place, a thing, or an event that has its own meaning and stands for something beyond itself as well. |
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