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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginnings of nearby words |
| allusion | a brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature |
| ballad | a song transmitted orally from generation to generation, that tells a story and that eventually is written down |
| carpe diem | "seize the day" - a common literary theme that emphasizes the shortness of life, and suggests that one should make the most of present pleasures |
| cliches | ideas or expressions that have become trite and tired from overuse |
| colloquially | in a conversational manner that may include using slang expressions not usually used by the culture |
| connotations | associations and implications that go beyond a word's literal meanings and are based on context |
| cosmic irony | writer that uses God, destiny, or fate to dash the hopes and expectations of a character |
| dramatic irony | difference between what a character believes or says and what the reader or audience knows to be true |
| English(Shakespearean)sonnet | rhyming "abab cdcd efef gg" |
| epic | a long narrative poem on a serious subject describing heroic deeds and important events |
| extended metaphor | all parts of the poem consist of a series of related metaphors |
| figure of speech | a way of saying one thing in terms of something else |
| haiku | Japanese poetry that presents an intense emotion or a vivid image of nature; 5,7,5 |
| imabic | a foot of poetry going from one unstressed to one stressed syllable |
| image | a word, phrase, of figure of speech that addresses the five senses |
| implied metaphor | a comparison in which the terms being compared are not specifically explained |
| irony | uses situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true |
| Italian sonnet | presents a situation, attitude, or problem that resolves; rhymes "abbaabba cdcdcd ee" |
| jargon | a category of language defined by a trade or profession |
| limerick | a light, humorous style of poetry; "aabba" |
| lyric | expresses personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker mostly about love or death |
| metaphor | comparison between two unlike things without using like or as |
| narrative poem | poem that tells a story |
| onomatopoeia | use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes |
| overstatement/hyperbole | exaggeration used for an effect |
| oxymoron | a condensed from of paradox in which two contradictory words are used together |
| paradox | appears to be self-contradictory, but that on closer inspection turns out to make sense |
| paraphrase | a restatement of the central idea of a poem in your own language |
| parody | a humorous imitation of another's work |
| personification | comparing human characteristics to nonhuman things |
| picture poem | where the poem becomes a picture of what the poem is describing |
| pun | play on words the rely on a word having more than one meaning or sounding like another word |
| rhyme | two or more words or phrases that repeat the same sounds |
| satire | ridiculing a folly in order to expose or correct it |
| simile | comparison of two things using words such as like and as |
| situational irony | a twist on what is expected to happen and what actually happens due to forces beyond human comprehension |
| sonnet | form of lyric poetry consisting of 14 lines |
| stanza | grouping of lines that has a set pattern of meter and rhyme |
| symbol | something that represents something else |
| theme | a central idea or meaning |
| tone | author's attitude toward the subject |
| understatement | figure of speech which less is said than is intended |
| verbal irony | figure of speech that occurs when a person says one thing but means the opposite |
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