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PoetryTranscendental
Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| rhythmical pattern | Meter |
| poetry that lacks a regular rhythmical pattern | Free Verse |
| the arrangement of words and phrases to create well formed sentences in a language | Syntax |
| group of lines forming the basis recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse | Stanza |
| a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings | Pun |
| repetition of consonants sounds at the beginning of words/accented syllables | Alliteration |
| repetition of similar final consonants sounds at the end of words | Consonance |
| repetition of vowel sounds in conjunction with dissimilar consonant sounds | Assonance |
| the use of words that imitate sounds | Onomatopoeia |
| figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between 2 subjects, using like or as | Simile |
| figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else | Metaphor |
| figure of speech that combines two opposing or contradicting ideas | Oxymoron |
| a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics | Personification |
| evokes the infinite range of elements that make up human experience | Catalog |
| repetition of phrases or sentences with similar structures or meaning | Anaphora |
| extended comparison of relationships | Analogy |
| statement that seems contradictory but actually presents a truth | Paradox |
| literary and artistic movement of the 19 century that arose in reaction against 18 century Neoclassicm and placed a premium on imagination, emotion, nature, individuality, and exotica | Romanticism |
| an American literary and philosophical movement of the 19 century. They believed that intuition and the individual conscience "transcend" experience and thus are better guides to truth than are the senses and logical reason | Trancendentalism |
| makes use of the conventions of drama -may be monologues or dialogues or may present the speech of many characters | Dramatic Poetry |
| tells a story in a verse -ballads/songlike | Narrative Poetry |
| melodic poem that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker | Lyric Poetry |
| the use of a part of something to stand for the whole | Synecdoche |
| language that uses images/words/phrases that appeal to one or more of the senses | Imagery |
| universal spirit which all beings return after death | Oversoul |
| a person who lives a solitary life and tends to avoid other people | Recluse |
| occurs when rhyming sounds are the same, but not exact | Approximate/Slate Rhyme |
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