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Know The lingo
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | The occurence of the same sound at the beginning if adjacent or closely connected words |
| Allusion | A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art |
| Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text |
| Ballad | A story/ narrative in poetic form |
| Consonance | The repetition of cononant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text. |
| Diction | The authors specific word choice |
| Enjambment | This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any puntuation and continues onto the next line |
| Free Verse | Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connection |
| onomatopeia | A word that sounds like what it means |
| Rythm | The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged |
| simile | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connection words , such s "like", or "as" |
| Stanza | A ubified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem. |
| Symbol | An object or action that means something more tasn its literal meaning |
| Theme | The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader |
| Tone | The attitude the poems narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character ; serious, humerous, sarcastic, ironic, concerned, etc |
| Verse | A single line of poetry |
| Anaphora | the repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines |
| Personification | giving objects human abilities |
| Epistrophe | the repetition of a word or words at the end of successive phrases phrases, clauses, or lines |
| Caesura | A strong pause or stop within a line of poetry usually occurs in the middle of the line of poetry |