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Poetry Terms
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Poetry | literature written in lines and stanzas |
| Speaker | the voice or "persona" that talks to the reader |
| Stanza | a group of lines that form a unit |
| Theme | the underlying subject or message of a poem |
| Mood | a feeling created by the poem |
| Irony | something unexpected or twisted |
| Diction | the writer's choice of words |
| Form | a type of poetry |
| Dramatic Poetry | poetry in which one or more characters speak |
| Dramatic Monologue | one character speaking |
| Dramatic Dialogue | 2+ characters speaking |
| Free Verse | unrhymed verse with no rhythm pattern |
| Lyric Poetry | poetry in which the speaker expresses inner thoughts about a subject |
| Sonnet | 14-line poem |
| Ode | a poem expressing admiration or praise for something |
| Narrative Poetry | poetry which tells a story with a clear plotline |
| Ballad | a song-like story poem, often passed on from generations by word of mouth |
| Parody | a humorous poem which changes words but copies many elements from another poem |
| Sound device | any technique which affects how a poem sounds |
| alliteration | a repeating consonant sound |
| assonance | repetition of a vowel sound |
| onomatopoeia | a word that imitates a sound (EX: bang, pop, whoosh) |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds |
| dialect | non-standard spelling or grammar used to suggest a speaker from a specific place or group |
| parallelism | the technique of beginning different phrases or lines or sentences with the same words but different endings |
| pun | humorous use of words based on the way they sound |
| refrain | one or more lines repeated at the ends of different stanzas or between stanzas |
| repetition | using the same word or group of words more than once for emphasis or rhythm |
| rhyme | repetition of the final sounds of words or syllables |
| end rhyme | rhyme at the ends of lines of poetry |
| masculine end rhyme | final stressed syllables (home, dome) |
| feminine end rhyme | ending in unstressed syllables (wearing) |
| internal rhyme | rhyme within a single line of poetry |
| approximate | similar sound without exact rhyme |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of a poem's rhyme as charted with alphabet letters |
| figurative language | using language to express ideas outside of reality |
| allusion | indirect reference to other works |
| apostrophe | when the speaker addresses someone or something that can't speak |
| imagery | the creation of pictures, smells, sounds, feels, etc. in the reader's mind |
| metaphor | a comparison that suggests one thing is another |
| oxymoron | a combination of opposite ideas to create a paradoxical truth |
| personification | a technique which adds life to inanimate objects by suggesting human traits |
| simile | a comparison using like or as |
| symbol | a concrete object which represents an abstract idea |
| meter/rhyme | the rhythmic pattern of syllables |
| monometer | one stress per line |
| dimeter | two stresses per line |
| trimeter | three stresses per line |
| tetrameter | four stresses per line |
| pentameter | five stresses per line |
| hexameter | six stresses per line |
| heptameter | seven stresses per line |
| foot | a grouping of syllables that contain only one stressed syllable |
| iamb | one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable |
| trochee | one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable |
| anapest | two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable |
| dactyl | one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables |
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vrosborough
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