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Poetry Vocab

TermDefinition
Metrical Poetry a strict rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line (a sonnet for example may have 10 syllables per line)
Free Verse Poetry a loose kind of rhythm in which the sounds of long phrases are balanced with sounds of short phrases
Sonnet a poem that follows a strict meter and line format
Rhyme repetition of the accented vowel sound and all subsequent sounds in a word
Exact rhyme perfect rhyme (plaster/faster)
End rhymes rhymes that occur at the end of the line
Internal rhyme rhymes that occur within lines
Rhyme Scheme a pattern of end rhymes with the patterns represented by letters of the alphabet. Lines designated with the same letter rhyme with each other (ABAB)
Alliteration repetition of consonant sounds in words appearing close together
Assonance repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry (cook looked kooky(
Consonance repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or ending of words (black hawk walk)
Onomatopoeia use of words to sound like what they mean / use of words to imitate sound (boom, splash, snap)
Image a representation of anything we can see, hear taste touch, or smell
Imagery language that appeals to our five senses
Figurative Language language based on some sort of comparison that is not literally true
Figure of speech language shaped by the play of imagination in which one thing is compared to something that seems to be entirely different
Simile figure of speech that uses the words "like, as than resembles" to compare things that seem to have little or nothing in common
Metaphor figure of speech with a direct comparison between two unlike things - there are no words of comparison
Direct Metaphor something IS something else
Implied Metaphor comparisons are suggested but not explicitly stated
Extended Metaphor metaphor that is extended over several lines of a poem
Personification figure of speech giving human qualities to a nonhuman thing or to an abstract idea
Symbol figure of speech wherein an ordinary object, event, animal, or person stands for itself and something beyond itself
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