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Poerty terms

TermDefinition
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
 

 



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