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Poetry Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words |
| allusions | a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumable commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art |
| ambiguity | double meanings |
| anthesis | direct contrast of structurally parallel word groupings sink-swim, best-worst |
| apostrophe | speaker addresses remarks to a dead person, an absent person or a non-human object |
| assonance | repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds - “A land laid waste with all its young men slain” |
| consonance | repetition of the same or similar final consonant sounds on accented syllables or in important words – ticktock, singsong, |
| details | facts included or omitted to create effects or evoke responses |
| diction | choice of words – denotative and connotative meanings |
| hyerbole | exaggerated statements -- Your eyes are as bright as the sun! |
| Imagery | sensory details: visual, auditory, smell, touch, taste |
| Internal rhyme | repetition of sounds within the same line |
| irony | opposite of the expected: verbal, situational, dramatic |
| metaphor | direct comparison of principal term identified by secondary term - war is a razor |
| Metonymy | object is used to represent something to which it is closely related: scepter & crown royalty |
| Onomatopoeia | use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning |
| oxymoron | contradiction of terms – jumbo shrimp, honest thief, sweet sorrow |
| paradox | appears contradictory or opposed to common sense, but contains a degree of truth or validity |
| personification | author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions |
| pun | a play on words -- Eve was nigh Adam; Adam was naive |
| rhyme | repetition of vowel sounds in accented syllables and all succeeding syllables |
| simile | comparison using like or as |
| symbol | generally, anything that represents or stands for something else |
| syntax | arrangement of words within sentences OR of sentences within paragraph |
| Synecdoche | a part represents the whole: hands = person, all hands on deck |
| understatement | ironic minimalizing of fact: understatement presents something as less significant than it is |
| tenor | the subject, or the thing about which the writer is trying to make a point. |
| vehicle | thing to which the writer is comparing her subject |
| direct metaphor | the tenor and vehicle are both stated |
| implied metaphor | tenor or the vehicle (or in some rare cases both) are left out |
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