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LEAP Poetry Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the begenning of words |
| Allusion | A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well known historical or literary event, person or work |
| Antithesis | A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences or ideas. |
| Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone (usually, but not always absent), some abstract quality or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present |
| Assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds |
| Blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Caesura | a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause |
| Consonance | the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words in which the ending consoans are the same but the vowels that precede them are diferent |
| couplet | A two line stanza, usually with end-rhymes the same |
| Device of sound | The techniques of deploying the sounds of words, especially in poetry. Among devices of sound are rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia |
| Diction | The use of words in a literary work |
| End-stopped | A line with a pause at the end. Lines that end with a period, a comma, a colon, a semicolon, and exclamation point, or a question mark are end-stopped lines |
| Extended metaphor | An implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem |
| Eye rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from the spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from the pronounciation |
| Figurative Language | Writing that uses figure of speech such as metaphor, irony, and similie |
| Free Verse | poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical. |
| Heroic couplet | Two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines whymed aa, bb, cc with the though usually completed in the two line unit |
| Hyperbole | a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exageration. |
| Imagery | the images of a literary work; the sensory details of a work. |
| Irony | the contrast between the actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning |
| Internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line rather than at the end |
| lyric Poem | Any short poem that represents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings. |
| Metaphor | A figurative use of language in which a comparision is expressed without the use of a comparative term like as, like or than |
| Meter | the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line o poetry |
| Narrative poem | A non-dramatic poem which tells a story or represents a narrative, whether simple or complex, long or short. |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words whose sound suggest their meaning |
| Oxymoron | A form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression |
| Paradox | a situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on the inspection turns out to be true or at least make sense. |
| Paraphrase | A restatement of an ideas in such a way as to retain the meaning while changing the diction and form. |
| Personification | A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics |
| Pun | A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but have sharply diverse meanings. |
| Quatrain | A four-line stanza with any combination of rhymes |
| Refrain | A group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza |
| Rhyme | close similarity or identity of sound between accented syllables occupying corresponding positions in two or more line of verse |
| Rhythm | The recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Sarcasm | A type of irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it |
| Satire | Writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disaproval of an object by ridicule |
| Similie | a directly expressed comparison; figure of speech comparing two objects; uses like, as or than |
| Stanza | usually a repeated groupung of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme |
| Structure | the arrangement of materials within work; the relationship of the parts of a work to the whole |
| Symbol | Something that is simultaneously itself and a sign fro something else |
| Syntax | the ordering of words into patterns or sentences |
| Theme | The main thought expressed by a work |
| Tone | The manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude |
| Understatement | The opposite of hyperbole. |
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