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Elements of poetry
Elements of poetry ESD
| word | definition |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repitition of constant sounds, especially at the begining of words. Example: " Fetched frersh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood." Hopkins , "in the valley of elwy." |
| connotatioln | the associations called up by a word that goes beyond it's dictionary meaning. |
| Denotation | the dictionary meaning of a word |
| Figurative Language | a form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their word. Examples include hyperbole, understatement. simile, metaphor, and synecdoche. |
| Free verse | Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. The verse is "free" in not being bound by earlier poetic conventions requiring poems to adhere to an explicit and identifiable meter and rhyme scheme in a form such as the sonnet or balled. |
| Hyperbole | a figure of speech involving exaggeration.0 |
| Imagery | language that appeals to the senses: sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch. |
| Irony | a contrast or discrepancy is between what is said or what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature. In verbal irony characters say the opposite of what they mean. |
| Metaphor | a comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative words such as like or as. An example is " My love is a red red rose. |
| Personification | the endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or ; living qualities.An example : " The yellow leaves flaunted their color gaily in a blaze. |
| Rhyme | The final match of consonent sound in tewio or more words. |
| Simile | A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though. An example: "My love is like a red, red rose." |
| Stanza | One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines. |
| Symbol | an object or action in literary work that means more than itself, that stands beyond itself. |
| Tone | An implied attitude of a writer towoard the subject |
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