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EOC Vocabulary Eng 1
Literary Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| symbol | Anything that stands for or represents something else. |
| narrative poem | A poem that tells a story. |
| dramatic monologue | A poem in which a fictional character directly expresses his or her thoughts in a situation. |
| Rhythm | The pattern of beats or stresses in language. |
| Rhyme Scheme | A regular pattern of the rhyming words at the end of each line in a poem. Letters are used to indicate the pattern. abab.... |
| Mood | The atmosphere or feeling created in the reader by a literary work. |
| Haiku | 3 lines of verse 1st and 3rd lines have 5 syllables and the 2nd has 7. Use of striking images (2) of nature, senses. |
| Sonnets | A lyric poem of 14 lines called Shakespearean sonnet. |
| Petrarchan sonnet | Consists of 8 lines and a sestet (6 lines) |
| Verse | Lines in a poem. |
| Romantic Movement | Early 1800's movement that emphasized the importance of the emotions, the imagination, and an appreciation of nature. |
| Lyric Poem | Poems that use simple language to memorialize remarkable moments of everyday life. They have a musical quality. |
| Rhymed iambic pentameter | 10 syllable lines in which every second syllable is accented. |
| Prose | Ordinary form of written language that is not poetry , drama, or song. |
| Metaphor | Comparisons between very different objects without using like or as. |
| Extended Metaphor | Several comparisons are made in the same poem or over several lines. |
| quatrain | 4 lines of a poem together |
| couplet | 2 lines together in a poem |
| Stanza | Formal division of lines in a poem. |
| Parallel Structure | Details that are parallel in meaning and expressed in the same form. |
| Poetic Contractions | Words in which a letter is replaced by an apostrophe. |
| Inverted Word Order | Do not follow normal Subject-Verb-Complement pattern. |
| Simile | Comparisons between very different objects using like or as. |
| Personification | Gives human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea. |
| Paraphrase | Restate a writer’s words in words of your own. |
| Imagery | Language that paints a picture in the readers’ minds. |
| Insights | Deeper meanings gained from observing or analyzing. |
| Onomatopoeia | Words that sound like they are written. |
| Repetition | Repeating words or lines for emphasis. |
| Alliteration | Repetition of first consonant sounds. |
| Sound Devices | Create musical effects in poems or writing. |
| End punctuation | Periods, question marks, and exclamation marks–often indicate meaning or feeling in poems. |
| Dramatic Poetry | Poetry in which the lines are spoken by one or more characters. |
| Speaker | Voice of the poem. |
| Allusion | A reference to a well known person or work. |
| Analogy | A comparison between two or more things that are similar in some ways but otherwise unalike. |
| Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds. |
| Blank Verse | Poetry written without rhyme |
| Epic | A long narrative poem. |
| Foreshadowing | Clues that predict events that have not happened yet. |
| Meter | Rhythmical pattern determined by stresses and beats in each line. |
| Internal Rhyme | Rhyming words occur on the same line. |
| Theme | Central message or insight of a work (work may contain many themes). |
| Tone | Writer’s attitude toward his or her audience and subject. |
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