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POETRY TERMS-FWN-SRS
POETRY TERMS- SENIORS
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| personification | a figure of speech that gives human traits to something nonhuman |
| speaker | the voice of a poem that communicates to the reader |
| simile | a figure of speech that compares two apparently unlike things using like or as |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that compares two apparently unlike things WITHOUT using like or as |
| meter | the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poetic line |
| rhyme scheme | a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem formed at the ends of the lines--to describe it one uses a letter of the alphabet to represent each rhyming sound |
| alliteration | the repetition of beginning consonant sounds (like silly Sally or dusk of impending death) |
| internal rhyme | the rhyme that occurs when rhyming words fall within the same line of a poem |
| assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds within non-rhyming words like low and ghost |
| consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds in words within a line, like fall and faithful |
| imagery | descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five senses--sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell. |
| approximate or slant rhyme | a rhyme that occurs when end rhymes are similar, but not exact, as in prove and glove |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sound, like boom or swish. |
| apostrophe | when the speaker addresses an absent person as if present or addresses a a personified quality or object |
| symbol | a concrete object that represents an abstract ideal |
| caesura | a pause or sudden stop in a line of poetry |
| enjambment | the running over of a sentence or thought from one line to another |
| Free verse | poetry that does not have regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| Lyric | poetry that expresses observations and feelings of a single speaker |
| narrative | poetry that tells a story |