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Poetry Terms
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | The repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity. |
| Allusion | Unacknowledged reference and quotations that authors assume their readers will recognize. |
| Anaphora | Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work or the section of a work. |
| Apostrophe | Speaker in a poem addresses a person not present or an animal, inanimate object, or concept as though it is a person. |
| Assonance | The repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words in close proximity. |
| Blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
| Consonance | is the counterpart of assonance; the partial or total identity of consonants in words whose main vowels differ. |
| Couplet | two successive rhyming lines. |
| Iambic pentameter | Iamb (iambic): an unstressed stressed foot.The most natural and common kind of meter in English |
| Internal rhyme | An exact rhyme (rather than rhyming vowel sounds, as with assonance) within a line of poetry. |
| Metaphor | A comparison between two unlike things, this describes one thing as if it were something else. |
| Meter | The number of feet within a line of traditional verse. |
| Onomatopoeia | A blending of consonant and vowel sounds designed to imitate or suggest the activity being described. |
| Personification | Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things or abstractions. |
| Slant rhyme | A near rhyme in which the concluding consonant sounds are identical but not the vowels. |
| Rhyme scheme | The pattern of rhyme, usually indicated by assigning a letter of the alphabet to each rhyme at the end of a line of poetry. |
| Sonnet | A closed form consisting of fourteen lines of rhyming iambic pentameter. |
| Stanza | A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose; the meters and rhymes are usually repeating or systematic. |
| Syntax | Word order and sentence structure. |
| Double rhyme or trochaic rhyme | rhyming words of two syllables in which the first syllable is accented (flower, shower) |
| Triple rhyme or dactylic rhyme | Rhyming words of three or more syllables in which any syllable but the last is accented. |
| Octave | The first eight lines of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet, unified by rhythm, rhyme, and topic. |
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