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Poetry Definitions
poetry terms for Mrs. Tompkins english 10H
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words |
| Allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art |
| Apostrophe | speaker is talking to someone who isn’t there |
| Ballad | a narrative poem written in four-line stanzas |
| Blonde Beauty | Patrarchean perfect women |
| Consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels |
| Couplet | a pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem |
| Dramatic Poetry | poetry with a story |
| Elegy | sad and thoughtful poem lamenting the death of a person |
| Epic Poem | a long and highly stylized narrative poem celebrating the heroic achievements |
| End Rhyme | rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry |
| Famine Rhyme | approximate rhyme ex: after, water |
| Haiku | written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration |
| Internal Rhyme | a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse |
| Litotes | pronounced (light-toe-taste) it is an understatement |
| Lyric Poem | a short poem of songlike quality |
| Onomatopoeia | a word that imitates the sound it represents ex. pow, bam, crash |
| Mescaline Rhyme | Exact rhyme ex: cat, hat |
| Metaphor | comparison of two unlike things using the verb "to be" and not using like |
| Meter | beats on line |
| Metonymy | is substituting a word for another word closely associated with it |
| Narrative Poem | poem with a story |
| Ode | expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion |
| Oxymoron | putting two contradictory words together ex: hot ice |
| Paradox | two opposing ideas |
| Personification | giving human qualities to animals or objects |
| Petrarchan Sonnet | 14 line poem, The last six lines make up a sestet and may consist of following rhyme schemes: 1) c d d c d d 2) c d e c d e 3) c d c d c d |
| Refrain | a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song |
| Repetition | A technique in which a sound, word, phrases or line is repeated |
| Shakespearean Sonnet | consists of three quatrains (four lines each) and a concluding couplet (two lines) |
| Simile | is the comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
| Sonnet | a lyric poem consisting of fourteen lines |
| Symbol | is using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning |
| Synecdoche | is when one uses a part to represent the whole |
| Tone | the attitude a writer takes towards a subject or character |
| Trope | a figure of speech using words in non literal ways |
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