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Poetry Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| lyric | once referred to poetry meant to be sung to music, but now describes any short, concentrated poem expressing personal feelings |
| narrative | poetry that tells a story |
| epic | lengthy narrative poems |
| ode | usually a long, complex lyric expressing profound emotion, more elaborate than other lyrics |
| elegy | a long, ceremonious lyric poem of mourning |
| light verse | poetry which entertains with humor or wit, sometimes with an underlying serious intent |
| dramatic monologue | a poem in which an imagined speaker addresses a silent listener, usually not the reader |
| allusion | a brief reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object |
| hyperbole | exaggeration for effect or humor |
| metaphor | direct or implied comparison between two dissimilar objects |
| direct metaphor | a direct comparison, such as "Juliet is the sun" |
| indirect metaphor | an implied comparison such as "he sharked down his food" |
| extended metaphor | a metaphor often the entire poem |
| conceit | an exaggerated comparison popularized in the seventeenth century by the metaphysical poets, of whom George Herbert and John Donne are the primary representatives |
| metonymy | a related device, in which an object or characteristic associated with the subject is used in place of the subject, as in "the pen is mightier than the sword" |
| personification | giving human characteristics to something non-human |
| simile | a comparison between seemingly dissimilar objects using like or as |
| symbol | something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance; especially: a visible sign of something invisible |
| synecdoche | a figure of speech by which a part stands for whole (as fifty sails for fifty ships), the whole for a part (as society for high society), the species for the genus (as cutthroat for assassin), or the name of the material for the thing made |
| synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another |
| pun | words or expressions which contain two or more meanings simultaneously, helpful in a genre which requires language to condense meanings in a compact space |
| paradox | occurs when language appears to contradict itself |
| irony | contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality |
| objective correlative | T.S. Eliot's term for a pattern of objects, actions, or events, or a situation that can serve effectively to awaken in the reader an emotional response without being a direct statement of that subjective emotion |
| alliteration | the repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginnings of words close together |
| assonance | repetition of the same vowel sound in words close to each other |
| consonance | repetition of the same consonant sound in words close together |
| end rhyme | rhyme occurring at the ends of lines |
| internal rhyme | rhyme between a word within a line and another either at the end of the same line or within another line |
| slant-rhyme | words which do not rhyme exactly, but end with similar sounds |
| onomatopoeia | the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss) |
| repetition | repeating word, phrase, or other element for emphasis |
| anaphora | repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect |
| antithesis | the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences |
| polysyndeton | repetition of conjunctions in close succession |
| parallelism | repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure or that state a similar idea |
| end-stopped lines | a line of poetry marked by a logical or rhetorical pause at the end |
| enjambment | the running over of a sentence from line or stanza into another so that closely related words fall in different lines |
| refrain | a regularly recurring phrase or verse especially at the end of each stanza or division of a poem or song |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme |
| scanning or scansion | analyzing the metrical patterns of a poem |
| meter | a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry |
| foot | units of accented and unaccented syllables, arranged in units called feet |
| iamb (iambic) | an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
| trochee (trochaic) | a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable |
| anapest (anapestic) | two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable |
| dactyl (dactylic) | one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables |
| spondee (spondaic) | two stressed syllables |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| syllabic verse | poetry in which the number of syllables per line is fixed (haiku is an example) |
| free verse | poetry free of a strict rhythmical structure or set rhyme scheme |
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