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Poetry
A metrical writing chosen and arranged to create or evoke a specific emotional response through meaning, sound and rhythm.
Terminology
Alliteration – repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together in a poem “Open here I flung the shutter, when with
many a flirt and flutter, /In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore.”
Allusion- reference to a statement, a person, place or event in history, literature, etc.
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Analogy- a comparison made between two things to show how they are alike in some respects
Assonance- repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds.
Ballad – a song that tells a story
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Blank verse - poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Connotation- the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests
Couplet- two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
I am his Highness’ dog at Kew;
Pray me, Sir, whose dog are you?”
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Denotation – the definition of a word Diction- A writer or speaker’s choice of
words Epic – a long story told in an elevated
language which relates the deeds of a “larger-than-life” hero who embodies the values of a particular society
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Free verse – poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Haiku – Japanese verse form consisting of three lines and usually seventeen syllables (5 first line, 7 second, 5 third)
Hyperbole – figure of speech using exaggeration to express an emotion. An overstatement. His shoes were the size of ocean liners.
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Idiom – expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different from the original meaning of each word Raining cats and dogs
Imagery - language that appeals to any of the senses
Inversion – reversal of the normal word order of a sentence
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Lyric poetry – poetry that does not tell a story but is aimed only at expressing a speaker’s emotions or thoughts.
Metaphor – a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things. Does not use LIKE or AS “My love is a red rose” Implied – does not directly say that something is
something else but uses words to suggest the nature of the comparison
“O, my love bursts into bloom” Extended - a metaphor that is developed over
several lines
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Meter – generally regular pattern of stress and unstressed syllables Iambic (*/) That time of year thou mayst in me behold
Trochaic (/*) Tell me not in mournful numbers
Anapestic (**/) And the sound of a voice that is still
Dactylic (/**) This is the forest primeval, the…
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Onomatopoeia – the expression of a sound through words “Bang”
Personification - giving human-like qualities to non human things “This poetry gets bored of being alone”
Refrain – repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines
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Rhyme – repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together as in poems End - rhyme occurs at the end of a line of
poetry Internal – rhyme occurs within a line of
poetry Rhythm – musical quality in language
produced by repetition
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Simile – figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using words similar to like, resemble, as, etc. “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”
Sonnet – a 14 line lyric poem that is usually in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes
Stanza – a group of consecutive lines in poetry that form a single unit
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Symbol – a person, place, thing or event that stands for itself and something beyond itself as well A Scale, An eagle, etc.
Theme – a central idea of a work of literature
Tone – an attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject or a character