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Poerty terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Lyric poertry | Expresses a strong feeling or emotion |
| Narrative Poerty | Poetry that tells .A strong and a balled are examples of narrative poems. |
| Dramatic Poetry | Poetry that is meant to be read aloud |
| Symbol | Something that represents something eles |
| End weight | The emphase is not made clear until th end of the line of poetry or the end the poem |
| Tone | Authors attuide towards the subjects of the writing/ text (An author attiude can be postive,negative or neutral |
| Stanza | Poetic paragraph |
| Refrain | Words or phase repeated in the same order or position in many or all stazans |
| Volta | Is the turn in a sonnet. It usually occurs around the 8th line of a sonnet. |
| Enjambment | When a thought or senes in a line of poetry does not come to an end at the line breal,but move over to the next line |
| Imagery | Creating a mental picture by appealing to the 5 sense |
| Metaphor | A comparison of two unlikey things by saying on is the other |
| Simile | A comparison of two unalike things using "like" or "as" |
| Repetition | Reapting sounds,words, or phases |
| Anaphora | Reapting of a word or words at the begginnig of sucessive, phase, or lines |
| Epistrophe | The reptition of a word or words at the end of sucessive, phase, or lines |
| Alliteration | Reapting the beginning sound of a word |
| Assonance | Reaptition of internal vowel sounds |
| Consonance | Reptition of ending consontant sounds |
| Rhyme | When both assonance and consonance are present |
| Rhyme Scheme | A poem deblibrte pattern of lines that with other lines |
| Rhythm | The beat of a poem |
| Personifcation | Giving inanaimate objects human ablities |
| Hyperbole | Extreme exaggration |
| Onomatpopoeia | sound words |
| Allusion | A reference in a story to an historical event, a person from history, a work of lifeature , or a character in a work of literature |
| Jargon | Specific phrases and words by particluar situation proession |
| Idiom | An expression used by particular witha meaning that is only know through common use |
| Diction | the poem//author specfic words choose |
| Meter | the mearused arrangement of sounds r beats at a in a poem |
| Free Verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter |
| Verse | A single line of poerty of poerty |
| Theme | The central meaning or dominatant message the poet is trying yo ger arcoss to the reader |
| Oxymoron | A figure of speech i which apparently contradictory term appear nect to each other |