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Poetry Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of beginning sounds. |
| allusion | referring to something else in history or litterature |
| apostrophe | addressing (speaking to) a person/object that isn't there. (ex: Oh my love, why did you have to die?) |
| simile | comparison of two things that use LIKE or AS |
| metaphor | comparison of two things that DON'T use like or as |
| poet | author of the poem |
| speaker | voice/narrator of the poem |
| onomatopoeia | words that sound like what they are. |
| personification | giving inanimate objects humanlike qualities or having them do human actions |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration or overstatement |
| theme | the point the author is trying to make (whether it's about society, ourselves, and/or mankind) |
| repetition | repeating a line, word, or phrase. |
| symbol | an object representing something broader |
| tone/mood | attitude/feeling that the poem gives off |
| imagery | descriptions of something involving the five senses (sight, hearing, smell, feel, and taste) |
| stanza | basically a poem paragraph |
| free verse | a poem without rhyme pattern |
| cacophony | a discordant series of unpleasant sounds that helps convey disorder |
| synecdoche | referring to a part of a person/object to indicate the entire thing (ex: Get your butt in here!) |
| oxymoron | combination of two polar opposite words |
| anaphora | deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs. |
| epistrophe | repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc. |
| caesura | a pause in a line of verse dictated by sense or natural speech rhythm rather than by metrics. |
| synesthesia | description of one kind of sense impression by using words that normally describe another. |
| internal rhyme | rhyming within a line |
| euphony | a series of musically pleasant sounds |
| enjambment | when a sentence continues beyond a line without punctuation. |
| assonance | The repeated vowel sounds inside words placed together (a bruisin' looser) [Listen for the 'ooze' sound] |
| consonance | The repeated consonant (non-vowel) sounds at the ending of words placed together (ex: cool soul) [the 'L' sound at the end] |
| chiasmus | rhetorical inversion of the second of two parallel structures (ex: Never negotiate out of fear, but never fear to negotiate) |
| couplet | two-line stanza |
| tercet | three-line stanza |
| quatrain | four-line stanza |
| quintet | five-line stanza |
| sestet | six-line stanza |
| septet | seven-line stanza |
| octave | eight-line stanza |
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