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Literary elements
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| elegy | a sad or thoughtful poem lamenting the death of a person |
| ode (hymn) | long poems which are serious in nature and written to a set structure, often praising something |
| lyric | consists of a poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a poet; doesn't tell a story |
| diction | the distinctive tone of an author's writings |
| tone | the perspective or attitude that an author adopts with regards to a specific character |
| figures of speech vs literal speech | figure- exaggeration, doesn't mean exactly what you are saying literal- you literally mean what you are saying |
| simile | comparison using like or as |
| metaphor | comparison without using like or as |
| synecdoche | a literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part |
| apostrophe | a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and was able to reply. |
| personification | giving human characteristics to something that is not human |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration |
| paradox | refers to the use of concepts/ ideas that are contradictory to one another, yet, when placed together they hold significant value on several levels |
| imagery | painting a picture in your mind(uses senses) |
| symbol | the use of a concrete object to represent an abstract idea natural- seasons conventional- colors |
| rhythm | the beat |
| meter | involves exact arrangements of syllables into repeated patterns called feet within a line. Meters are regularized rhythms |
| foot | each repeated unit of meter |
| iam (iambic) | |
| rhyme | uh duh |
| perfect/ exact rhyme | rhyming two words in which both the consonant sounds and vowel sounds match to create a rhyme (Pain/payne time/thyme) |
| end rhyme | rhyme at the end of a verse |
| internal rhyme | rhyme within the stanza |
| alliteration | der |
| assonance | the repetition or a pattern of similar vowel sounds, but with different end consonants in a line or passage of verse or prose` |
| consonance | the repetition, at close intervals, of the final consonants of accented syllables or important words , especially at the ends of words |
| onomatopoeia | words that sound like noises |
| stanza | paragraph of poems |
| verse | line of a stanza |
| couplet | a poem with two verses |
| quatrain | a poem with four verses |
| sonnet | has 14 fourteen lines and is written in iambic pentameter. Each line has 10 syllables. It has a specific rhyme scheme and a “volta” or a specific turn. remaining six lines called sestet might |
| Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet | The rhyme scheme of Petrarchan sonnet has first eight lines called octet that rhymes as abba -abba –cdc-dcd. The remaining six lines called sestet might have a range of rhyme schemes. |
| English (Shakespearean) sonnet | A Shakespearean sonnet is generally written in an iambic pentameter, there are 10 syllables in each line.The rhyme scheme of Shakespearian sonnet is abab-cdcd-efef-gg and this is difficult to follow. |
| blank verse | Blank Verse is Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. It often resembles the rhythms of ordinary speech. |
| free verse | no rhyme scheme |
| prose poem | Work in prose that has some of the technical or literary qualities of poetry |
| ballad | a narrative poem consisting of quatrains of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter |
| caesura | involves creating a fracture of sorts within a sentence where the two separate parts are distinguishable from one another yet intrinsically linked to one another |
| closed and open form | open- allows the poet to write freely without worrying about trying to make the words fit a specific meter or rhyme scheme closed- allows the poet to establish a pattern that will help him or her create the desired meaning or sound |
| enjambment | the continuation of a sentence form one line or couplet into the next. |
| syntax | refers to the actual way in which words and sentences are placed together in the writing |
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