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Terms Of Poetry
Term | Definition |
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Alliteration: | The Repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. |
Allusion: | A reference to someone or something that is known from history,literature,religion,politics,sports,science, or some other branch of culture. |
Context Clues: | Using words surrounding unknown words to determine their meaning. |
Couplet: | Two consecutive lines of poetry that works together. |
Drawing Conclusions: | Use written cues to figure out something that is not directly stated. |
Free Verse: | Poetry that does not confirm to a regular meter or rhyme scheme. |
Haiku: | Presents a vivid picture and the poet's impression, sometimes with suggestions of spiritual insight; the traditional haiku is 3 lines long: the 1st line is 5 syllables, and the 3rd line is 5 syllables. |
Hyperbole: | A figure of speech that uses incredible exaggeration, or overstatement, for effect. |
Imagery: | The use of language to evoke a picture or concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience. |
Inferring: | Giving a logical guess based on the facts or evidence presented using prior knowledge to help"read between the lines". |
Irony: | In general, it is the difference between the way something appears and what is actually true. |
Meaning: | What is the poem about? |
Metaphor: | A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of like or as. |
Mood: | The feeling created in the reader by the poem or story. |
Onomatopoeia: | The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests it's meaning. |
Pattern: | A combination of the organization of lines, rhyme schemes, stanzas,rhythm, and meter. |
Personification: | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes. |
Rereading | Gives the reader more than one chance to make sense of challenging text. |
Rhyme/Rhyme Scheme: | The repetition of vowel sounds in accented syllables and all succeeding syllables; The pattern of rhymes in a poem is called a rhyme scheme. |
Rhythm: | A rise and fall of the voice produced by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language. |
Setting: | The time and place of the action. |
Simile: | A figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between 2 unlike things, using the words like or as. |
Sonnet: | A 14-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. |
Speaker: | The imaginary voice assumed by the writer the writer of a poem. |
Stanza: | A group of lines in a poem considered as a unit; Stanzas often function like paragraphs in prose; Each stanza states and develops a single main idea. |
Summarizing: | Guide the reader to organize and restate info, usually in written form. |
Symbols: | A person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself. |
Theme: | The central message or insight into life revealed through the poem. |
Tone: | The attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience. |