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Poetry Study Guide

10/24/25

TermDefinition
Line a fundamental unit in poetry.
Stanza a grouping of lines that forms the main unit in a poem.
Rhyme the correspondence of sounds in words or lines of verse.
Rhyme Scheme the pattern of rhymes falling at the ends of a poem’s lines.
Alliteration the repetition of consonant sounds, particularly at the beginnings of words.
Imagery language in a poem representing a sensory experience, including visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, and gustatory.
Symbolism an object or action that stands for something beyond itself.
Irony a rhetorical device involving contradictions of expectation or knowledge and divided into three primary types: verbal, situational, and dramatic.
Connotation the implied or suggested meaning (FEELING) associated with a word or phrase.
Detonation the dictionary meaning of a word.
Repetition the poetic technique of repeating the same word or phrase multiple times within a poem or work.
Simile comparison of two unlike things using like or as
Metaphor comparison of two unlike things NOT using like or as
Hyperbole an exaggeration
Personification giving human characteristics to NONHUMAN things
Idiom A figure of speech in which the literal meaning does not match the figurative meaning.
Oxymoron two words that are opposite in meaning used together.
Onomatopoeia the use of language that sounds like the thing or action it describes.
Allusion a reference to a person, event, or literary work outside the poem.
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