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Poetry Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Speaker | the voice or the person speaking |
| alliteration | repetition of initial consonance sounds in words close together |
| apostrophe | a speaker talks directly to an inanimate object, or person who is absent or dead |
| diction | word choice |
| hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| onomatopoeia | words that sound similar to their meaning |
| theme | the message or central idea expressed in a single universal sentence |
| symbol | something that stands for itself as well as something else |
| allusion | a reference to something that everyone should know |
| elegy | a poem that mourns the loss of someone or something |
| elision | leaving out a letter |
| end rhyme | rhymes at the end of a line |
| explicate | to explain |
| foreshadowing | to predict something will happen in the future |
| free verse | no meter and/or no rhyme |
| genre | type of literature |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| internal rhyme or leonine rhyme | rhymes within a line of poetry |
| irony | the opposite of what is expected |
| lyric poem | expresses emotions and feelings |
| metaphysical poetry | makes you think, often uses conceits |
| narrative poem | tells a story |
| paraphrase | to put in your own words |
| pastoral poetry | older poems had sheep/shepherds, ideal conditions, rural setting |
| personification | to give human attributes to an object |
| scan | to mark the meter of a poem |
| scansion | process of marking the meter |
| sestet | six lines of poetry |
| octave | eight lines of poetry |
| simile | compares using like or as |
| sonnet | a 14 line poem |
| spondee | stress, stress |
| stanza | a group of lines in poetry |
| syntax | punctuation, types of sentences, length of sentences, and style |
| iambic | unstressed, stressed |
| tone | the attitude or feeling |
| volta | turn |
| virgule | stressed syllable |
| Italian sonnet | octave, sestet |
| English sonnet or Shakespearean sonnet | three quatrains and a couplet with ababcdcdefef gg |
| Spenserian sonnet | fourteen line poem with linking quatrains abab bcbc cdcd ee |
| sonnet cycle or sonnet sequence | a group of sonnets |
| quatrain | four lines |
| couplet | two lines--open, closed, heroic |
| rhyme scheme | marking the end rhyme pattern |
| slant rhyme | half rhyme, almost rhymes |
| symbol | stands for itself and something else |
| speaker | the voice in the poem |
| theme | the meaning in one universal sentence |
| dramatic monologue | a narrative poem with a silent listener, a lot is revealed about the narrator |
| anapest | unstressed, unstressed, stressed |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| compound rhyme | two syllable rhyme |
| concrete poem | picture poem |
| connotation | the feeling a word gives |
| dramatic irony | the audience knows, but the characters don't |
| enjambment | a run-on line of poetry--carries on to the next line |
| eye or visual rhyme | looks like it should rhyme (horse, worse) |
| refractory or forced rhyme | the lines are forced to rhyme |
| historical rhyme | at one time it did rhyme |
| juxtaposition | to put two things against each other |
| meter | the stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry |
| perfect, straight rhyme | true rhyme |
| rhetorical question | a question that expects no answer |
| pun | a play on words |
| prosody | the study of rhythm |
| rime riche | homophones (stair, stare) |
| poetry | anything that is not prose |
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rknebel
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