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| Answer | |
|---|---|
| Meter | basic rhythmic structure of a verse, made up of feet |
| scansion | analysis of a poem's metrical structure |
| Iambic Pentameter | most common meter in English poetry- sequence of five iambic feet each consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one (ex: DUM-da) |
| Trochaic Meter | the inverse of iambic meter DUM-da |
| Euphony | words that sound good together (musical) |
| Cacophony | sounds that grate, annoy, or create a sense of distaste |
| Onomatopoeia | intimates the sound it refers to |
| Imagery | language that appeals directly to one of the senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell, or taste |
| Synesthesia | when description of one kind of sensation produces another |
| Tone | manner in which something is said: voice the poet projects |
| rhythm | pacing, form flow to fast, and pauses, stops, and starts |
| end rhyme | most common rhyme- occurs at the end of verse line |
| internal rhyme | the end word rhymes with a word in the middle of the same line or nearby line |
| eye rhyme | words that look alike but do not sound alike blood, flood |
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds that are close together |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds within a series of words |
| dissonance | a disruption of harmonic sounds or rhythms |
| verse | rhymed or metrical poetry- a line or stanza of such poetry |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter (still rhythmic) |
| free verse | avoids pre-established rhyme, stanza pattern, or meter |
| metaphor | implied comparison of two unlike things |
| simile | explicit comparison of two unlike things |
| Irony | (verbal) saying one thing and meaning another |
| Paradox | an apparently impossible circumstance, situation or condition (like oxymoron) |
| Personification/ Pathetic Fallacy | giving a non-being the characteristics of a person |
| Pun | humorous use of words with multiple meanings or worse that sound similar with different meanings |
| Metonymy | when one thing is used in place of something closely related to it -suits = business people |
| Synecdoche | uses part for the whole -wheels = car, hands= sailors |
| hyperbole | overstatement or exaggeration for effect |
| Litotes | understatement that downplays for effect |
| symbol | a representative image, event, word, or pattern that stands for something else |
| allegory | fixed symbol that definitively represents one other thing - no room for interpretive license |
| sonnet | a form poem containing 14 lines of iambic pentameter and end rhyme |
| ode | long irregular poem lyric in nature exalted in tone - meant to praise and honor its subject |
| couplet | pair of rhymed lines |
| tercet/triplet | grouping thee rhymed lines |
| quatrain | group of four rhyming lines |
| stanza | grouping of verse lines in a poem set off by a space break |
| apostrophe | direct and explicit address either to an absent person or to an abstract or inanimate entity |
| theme | idea or claim a poem is expressing |
| allusion | reference to art, popular culture, or literature |
| Denotation | what a word means on an dictionary level |
| Connotation | what a word means on an emotional level |
| diction | word choice |
| Dramatic monologue | one side of a conversation- one voice the reader "hears" |
| Internal dramatic monologue | stream-of-consciousness version of dramatic monologue |
| End-stopped lines | lines of poetry that have a pause at the end, usually indicated by punctuation |
| Enjambment | lines of poetry that force you to read into the beginning of the next line |
| Caesura | pauses or breaks within a line of poetry -> See how the flowers II as at a parade |
| prose poem | poem whose shape is reflective of the poem's subject |
| conceit | an extended metaphor |
| asyndeton | The admission of conjunctions (and, but, etc) between parts of a sentence |
| polysyndeton |