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Poetry terms

TermDefinition
Alliteration The repetition of beginning sounds.
Allusion A figure of speech, in which one refers covertly or indirectly to an object or circumstance from an external context.
Analogy A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based.
Apostrophe A figure of speech in which the poet address an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing.
Assonance The repetition of ending sounds.
Cacophony Words that represent harsh and coarse sounds
Connotation An Idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to it's literal meaning or primary meaning.
Consonance The repetition of constant sounds of a word.
Couplet Pair of lines that rhyme and have the same meter.
Quatrain A type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines.
Closed Form A poem that exhibits regular structure, rhyme and meter.
Enjambment Continuation of a sentence beyond the line, stanza, or couplet.
Epitaph A phrase or statement written about someone who has died.
Euphemism A mild or indirect word or expression used instead of one that is considered to be to harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
Hyperbole An extreme exaggeration used to make a point
Meter The basic rhythmic structure of verse or lines in verse.
Metonym A figure of speech in which something is not called by it's name, but rather a characteristic or by something related to it.
Ode A lyrical stanza.
Oxymoron A figure of speech that juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory.
Paradox A sentence that seems to contradictory, yet still is correct( and wrong at the same time).
Parallelism two lines or sentences similar in verbal construction and gramatical structure.
Rhyme Scheme The pattern of rhymes at the end of a poem or a song.
Personification Giving non living objects human like qualities.
Simile A direct comparison using like or as.
Synecdoche A figure of speech where a term for part of something refers to the whole thing.
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