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Poetry Study
figurative language
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Onomatopoeia | Sounds (ex. click, clack, tic, toc) |
| Rhyme | Corasponds of sounds, the end of the words sound similar |
| Alliteration: | Repetetive vowels/consanants in words (ex. Aaron ate an alligator) |
| Consonance | Last sound alliteration. (ex. The WIND WINDS WESTWARD) |
| Assonance | Repetetive vowel sounds (ex. the west wind winds westward) |
| Euphony | Soft, smooth, harmonious sounds |
| Cacophony | Rough, harsh sounds |
| Rhythm | Regular recurrence of sound; flow of poem |
| Feet | Foot= number of syllables with a set number of stresses |
| Meter | Regular, systematic rhythm |
| Parallelism | Parallel structures repeating. |
| Continuous Form | Not broken into stanzas |
| Stanzaic form | Broken into stanzas |
| Tercet | 3 line stanza |
| Quatrain | 4 line stanza |
| Quintain | 5 line stanza |
| Sestet | 6 line stanza |
| Septet, heptet | 7 line stanza |
| Octet, octave | 8 line stanza |
| Refrain | A repeated set of lines |
| Fixed Form | Standardized forms with specific rules |
| Italian/Petrarchan sonnet | 14 line iambic pentameter 1st 8 lines: define problem/qu. last 6 lines: resolve problem/qu. |
| English/Shakespearean sonnet | 3 quatrains - different merges. Couplet - catchy ending. |
| Limerick | Funny, humerous: A(3)AB(2)BA(3) |
| Haiku | Nature/personal feelings. 3 lines. Last line is a punch line. |
| Cinquain | 5 lines , the last line is the punch line. |
| Acrostic | Each line/verse starts with a letter of the alphabet. |
| Concrete Poem: | The shape echoes the poem's meaning. |
| Blank verse | Unrythmed iambic pentameter. |
| Free Verse | Verse without rhyme or meter. |
| Connotation | A suggested meaning or association of a word |
| Denotation | Literal meaning of a word |
| Imagery | Using words that appeal to your senses |
| Figurative language | language that uses comparisons |
| Simile | Comparison using "like" or "as" |
| Personification | Giving human characteristics to non-human things |
| Metaphor | Implied comparisons (not using like or as) |
| Overstatement/Hyperbole | An extreme exaggeration to show the truth |
| Symbol | Represents something beyond itself |
| Allegory | A story/poem where everything is a symbol |
| Apostrophe | Dressing an object so its alive. Something that can't reply. |
| Litotes | Ironically describing something when negatively referring to the opposite. (not bad when excellent) |
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