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9th Gr. Poetry Term
SOL PoetryTerms 9th Grade
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alliteration | The repetition of the beginning sounds of words, as in Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, long-lived, short shrift, and the fickle finger of fate |
allusion | A reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned |
assonance | Also called vowel rhyme. The repetition of vowel sounds within nonrhyming words, as in penitent and reticence |
blank verse | unrhymed verse usually written in iambic pentameter |
consonance | the repetition of consonants or of a consonant pattern, especially at the ends of words, as in blank and think or strong and string. |
couplet | a rhymed pair of lines. |
diction | style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words |
end rhyme | rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry. |
epic | a long narrative poem written in a formal style, in which heroes of great historical/legendary importance perform valorous deeds. The setting is vast in scope, covering great nations, the world, or the universe, and the action is important to the history |
figurative language | speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning (connotation). Employs figures of speech such as personification, hyperbole, simile, and metaphor. |
literal language | conforming to, or upholding the exact or primary meaning of a word or words (denotation). |
free verse | verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern. |
iambic pentameter | The most common meter in English poetry. It consists of a line ten syllables long that is accented on every second beat, the first unstressed and the second stressed. |
imagery | the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively |
internal rhyme | a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse or within two or more lines of a verse. |
metaphor | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in "a sea of troubles" or "All the world's a stage" (Shakespeare). |
meter | the measured arrangement of words in poetry, as by accentual rhythm, syllabic quantity, or the number of syllables in a line. |
onomatopoeia | The use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. |
oxymoron | A rhetorical device in which two seemingly contradictory words are used together for effect. |
personification | A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality |
repetition | repeated utterance; reiteration. |
rhyme | A word that corresponds with another in terminal sound, as behold and cold. |
rhythm | the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements; "the rhythm of Frost's poetry" |
simile | a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in she is like a rose. |
slant rhyme | when the sounds are not quite identical. |
speaker | the voice that talks to the reader, similar to the narrator in fiction. The speaker is not necessarily the poet. |
sonnet | a poem, expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes: the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines (the octav |
stanza | composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines throughout the poem. |
symbolism | a person, a place, or an object used for or regarded as representing something else |
theme | the main idea in a work of literature. It is a perception about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader. |
tone | the attitude of the writer takes toward a subject. |