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Term | Definition |
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Alliteration | Two words in the same line with the same starting sound. |
Metaphor | A directly stated comparison. |
Onomatopoeia | The attempt to spell out a sound. |
Narrative poetry | That which tells a story with characters, a plot, etc. |
Imagery | Pictures drawn in the reader's mind by the words of the poet. |
Personification | Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects. |
Simile | A comparison using like or as. |
Repetition | Using a key word several times throughout a poem. |
Stanza | A paragraph in poetry, surrounded above and below by skipped lines. |
Couplet | Two rhyming lines in a row, usually stating an important thematic idea. |
Speaker | The voice of the poem, usually NOT the poet. |
Tone | He feelings the speaker has about the subject. |
Mood | The feelings of the reader of a poem. |
Diction | The choice of words of the speaker. |
Irony | When the outcome is the opposite of what was expected. |
Allusion | A reference to something the poet thinks everyone already knows. |
Connotation | The extra meaning associated with a word more than just its definition. |
Theme | The generalization about life understood from experiencing any work of art. |
Hyperbole | Exaggeration for humorous or thematic effect. |
Symbol | An object which carries more meaning than simply its dictionary definition. |