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poetry terms
Term | Definition |
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alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of the word |
allusion | passing reference or indirect mention |
apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person |
assonance | the repetition of similar |
caesura | a break or pause in the middle of a verse line |
consonance | the repetition of sounds especially at the ends of words |
couplet | a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse |
enjambment | continuation from one line of verse into the next line |
hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration |
internal rhymes | a rhyme between words in the same line |
litotes | understatement for rhetorical effect |
metaphor | a figure of speech that suggest a non-literal similarity |
octave | a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse |
onomatopoeia | using words that imitate the sound they denote |
paradox | a statement that contradicts itself |
personification | attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas |
anapest | a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables |
dactyl | a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables |
spondee | a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables |
trochee | a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables |
iamb | a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables |
sestet | a group of six lines of verse |
simile | a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things |
synaesthesia | a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated |