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9th grade poetry terms

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alliteration   The repetition of similar consonant sounds in a line of poetry  
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initial alliteration   When alliteration occurs at the beginning of words (jump for joy)  
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hidden alliteration   When alliteration occurs within words (sunshine and shadow)  
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allusion   A reference in one work of literature to a person, place, or event in another work of literature or in history, art, or music  
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analogy   An extended comparison showing the similarities between two thing  
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assonance   The repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually close together, in a group of words (free and easy; mad as a hatter)  
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ballad   A story (a narrative poem) told in verse and usually meant to be sung  
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literary ballad   a ballad in which a known writer imitates a folk ballad  
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folk ballad   A story told in verse that is by an unknown author and meant to be sung (A type of narrative poetry)  
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blank verse   Verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter, where each line usually contains ten syllables and every other syllable is stressed  
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connotation   The emotion or association that a word or phrase may arouse  
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couplet   Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme  
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denotation   The literal or “dictionary” meaning of a word  
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diction   A writer’s choice of words (particularly for clarity, effectiveness, and precision  
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dramatic poetry   Poetry in which one or more characters speak  
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figurative language   Language that is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense; saying one thing in terms of another  
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figure of speech   A term applied to a specific kind of figurative language, such as metaphor or simile  
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foot   a unit of poetic meter; the number of rhythmic beats in a line  
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free verse   Poetry that has no fixed meter or pattern and that depends on natural speech rhythms; it may rhyme or it may not; its lines may be of different lengths  
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iambic pentameter   The most common verse line in English poetry consisting of five feet of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable  
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imagery   Language that appeals to any sense or any combination of the senses  
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literary ballad   A story told in verse in which a known writer imitates a folk ballad  
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lyric poetry   Poetry that expresses a speaker’s personal thoughts or feelings  
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metaphor   A comparison between two unlike things (with the intent of giving added meaning to one of them) WITHOUT using words of comparison  
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implied metaphor   does not directly state that one thing is another; it implies the comparison  
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meter   A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry  
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iamb   one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable  
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pentameter   name for the number of 5 feet in a poem  
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monologue   A long, uninterrupted speech (in a narrative or drama) that is spoken in the presence of other characters  
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narrative poetry   Poetry that tells a story (a ballad is an example)  
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onomatopoeia   The use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning; the word is the sound; the sound is the word (cuckoo; snap; clang; rustle; tick tock; hiss)  
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parallelism   The use of phrases, clauses, or sentences that are similar or complementary in structure or in meaning  
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paraphrase   A summary or recapitulation of a piece of literature  
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personification   A figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a natural force, or an idea is given personality, or described as if it were human  
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Petrarchan Sonnet   A fourteen-line lyric poem consisting of two parts: the octave and the sestet whose rhyme scheme is a set rhyme scheme of abbaabba cdecde (or cddccd or cdcdcd) which also written using iambic pentameter Also called Italian sonnet  
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refrain   A word, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem, usually at the end of each stanza  
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repetition   The return of a word, phrase, stanza form, or effect in any form of literature (as seen in alliteration, rhyme, refrain)  
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rhyme   The repetition of sound in two or more words or phrases that usually appear close to each other in a poem  
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end rhyme   When the rhyme occurs at the ends of lines  
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exact rhyme   When the words at the ends of lines rhyme exactly  
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internal rhyme   When the rhyme occurs within a line  
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approximate (or near rhyme or partial rhyme or slant rhyme)   When the final sounds of words are similar, but not identical (EX: cook/lack; word/Lord)  
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rhyme scheme   The pattern of rhymes in a poem  
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rhythm   The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a pattern  
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Shakespearean Sonnet   A fourteen-line lyric poem consisting of three quatrains and a couplet with the following rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg  
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simile   A comparison made between two dissimilar things through the use of a specific word of comparison such as like, as, than, or resembles (Dorothy is like a golden flower)  
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sonnet   A fourteen-line lyric poem usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter with a set rhyme scheme; Two types: Shakespearean sonnet (or English sonnet); Petrarchan sonnet (or Italian sonnet)  
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speaker   The voice in a poem which may be the poet or may be a character created by the poet.  
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stanza   A group of lines forming a unit in poem  
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symbol   Any object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, an attitude, a belief, or a value  
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theme   The main idea or the basic meaning of a literary work  
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tone   The attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters, and readers  
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stanza names   couplet, tercet (or triplet), quatrain, cinquain, sestet, heptastich, octave  
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