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Poetic Terms
Vocabulary terms for poetry
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| • Allusion | something that refers to something else, usually something well known. |
| • Figurative Language | A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. |
| • Figure of Speech | special types of figurative language like personification, hyperbole, simile and metaphor. |
| • Hyperbole | A figure of speech involving exaggeration. |
| • Imagery | The pattern of related comparative aspects of language, particularly of images, in a literary work. |
| • Litotes | understatement that is often ironic. |
| • Metaphor | A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. |
| • Personification | The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities. |
| • Simile | A comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" |
| • Symbol | An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. |
| • Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. |
| • Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose |
| • Meter | The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems |
| • Onomatopoeia | The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe |
| • RPersonificationhyme | The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. |
| • Rhyme scheme | the pattern of the rhyme in a poem. |
| • Rhythm | The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse |
| • Foot | A unit of meter consisting of two or three syllables. |
| • Gothic Literature | style is characterized by remote settings, violent or macabre acts, tormented characters, and often, the presence of supernatural elements. |
| • Ballad | A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. |
| • Cinquain | a five-line poem--appearing in one of three patterns |
| • Couplet | A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. |
| • Free Verse | Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. |
| • Haiku | a Japanese form of poetry that has three lines of unrhymed poetry (line 1 - 5 syllables, line 2 - 7 syllable, line 3 - 5 syllables) |
| • Lyric Poetry | A type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and the expression of feeling. |
| • Sonnet | A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter |
| • Stanza | A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form--either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter, or with variations from one stanza to another. |
| Explication | an explanation of a poem, analyzing its meaning and poetic devices |
| Personification | The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities |
| Tone | The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work |
| Irony | A contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature. |
| Connotation | The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning. |
| recitation | memorizing and saying a poem aloud to an audience |
| Harlem Renaissance | movement of African American art, literature, and culture occurring from 1918-37; centered in Harlem in New York City |
| dialect | particular form of language that is specific to a region or social group |
| lyrics | words that make up a song |
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