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Lit Terms
Poetry Terms for University High School
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alliteration | repeating of first consonant sound in multiple words |
| allusion | stylistic, indirect/passing mention |
| ballad | story by song |
| bildungsroman | coming-of-age story |
| blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter (like Shakespeare's poems) |
| caricature | a representation, exaggerated for comic effect |
| conflict | fight, actual or figurative, between protagonist and antagonist |
| connotation | emotional associations with a word (as opposed to denotation) |
| dialect | usage of a language characteristic of a specific group of people |
| dramatic irony | a contrast between the main character's and the audience's knowledge |
| foreshadowing | subtle hinting about later events in the story |
| haiku | a small poem, of 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively, intended to capture a moment, often in nature |
| iambic | the meter used sometimes in old poetry; "iamb" refers to a pattern "short-long" (syncopated meter) |
| inference | an assumption based on circumstantial evidence and earlier conclusions (as opposed to a hypothesis) |
| irony | the incongruity between a speaker/writer's words and the general understanding of the situation |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity |
| naive narrator | a narrator too innocent to fully understand the story |
| octave | an eight-line poem |
| paradox | a statement or situation that contradicts itself |
| personification | representing an object or idea as having some human qualities (as opposed to anthropomorphism, which is making objects "human") |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
| pun | a humorous play on words (example not included, for it is too punny for a flashcard) |
| quatrain | a four-line stanza or a four-line poem |
| scansion | An analysis of a poem, often by marking stressed/unstressed syllables |
| simile | a figure of speech connecting two different things, almost always using "like" or "as" |
| social criticism | writing to criticise or for social improvement (like Machiavelli's "The Prince") |
| sonnet | a verse form using 14 lines, each with ten syllables in iambic form (iambic pentameter), with a fixed rhyme scheme |
| symbol | something tangible associated with something intangible, so that an object represents an idea, for example |
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