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poetry terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Lyric Poetry | poetry that expresses a strong feeling or emotion |
| Narrative Poem | poetry that tells a story.A ballad and an epic are examples of narrative poems. |
| Dramatic Poem | poetry that is meant be read aloud |
| Symbol | Something that represent something else |
| End weight | the emphasis of a line a poetry is not made clear until the end of the line of poetry OR the end of the poem |
| Tone | Author's attitude towards the subject of the writing/text (An author's attitude positive negative or neutral) |
| Stanza | poetic paragraph |
| Refrain | words/phrases repeated in the same order or position in many or all stanzas |
| Volta | Is the turn of a sonnet It usually occurs around the 8th line of the sonnet |
| enjambment | When a thought or sense, phrase or clause, in a line of poetry does not come to an end at the line break, but moves over to the next line |
| Imagery | creating a "mental picture" by appealing to the five senses |
| Metaphor | A comparison between two unlike things by saying on is the other |
| Simile | A comparison between two unlike things using like or as |
| Repition | repeating words ,sounds, or phrases |
| Anaphora | the repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrase, clauses, or lines |
| Epistrophe | the repetition of a word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or line |
| Alliteration | repeating the beginning SOUNDS of a word |
| Assonance | Repetition of INTERNAL VOWEL SOUNDS |
| Consonance | repetition of ENDING CONSONANT |
| Rhyme | when both assonance and consonance are present |
| Rhyme Scheme | a poet's deliberate pattern of line that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza |
| Rhythm | the "beat"of a poem |
| Personification | giving inanimate objects human abilities |
| Hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |
| Onomopoeia | sound words |
| Allusion | a reference in a story to an historical event a person from history or a work of literature, or a character in a work of literature |
| Jargon | specific phrases and words by writers in a particular situation, profession or trade |
| Idiom | an expression used by a particular group pf people with a meaning that is only known through common use |
| Diction | the poet/author's specific word choice |
| Meter | the measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem |
| Free verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter |
| Verse | a single line of peotry |
| Theme | the central meaning or dominant message the poet if trying to get across to the reader |
| Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear next to each other |
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