English II Poetry Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 tone | emotional spin a poet puts on his words; the edge or attitude in the voice of the poem |
| octave | an eight line stanza |
| villanelle | a poetic form with 19 lines, consisting of 5 tercets and a quatrain |
| ars poetica | a poem that explores or presents the poet's views of what poetry is or how one should write it |
| caesura | a pause or break in the middle of a line |
| meter | rythmic measure of a line or verse |
| narrative poem | poem that tells a story |
| foot | unit of measure in a metrical line |
| haiku | japanese poetic form consisting of 3 short lines in which the first and last have 5 syllables and the middle has 7 |
| image | mental picture |
| couplet | a pair of rhymed lines |
| lament/elegy | poem for someone who has died |
| theme | a poem's attitude towards its subject |
| stanza | group of lines gathered together as a unit |
| quatrain | 4-line stanza |
| sensory language | language that appeals to the 5 senses |
| slant rhyme | also called approximate rhyme: rhyme that neither looks nor sounds exact |
| prosody | the study of sound and rhythm in poetry |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| cadence | rising and falling of spoken language |
| iambic pentameter | a line containing 5 feet in which an unstressed syllable is always followed by a stress |
| free verse | unmetrical verse: lines that are not measured or counted for the number of accents or syllables; lines that are free of meter |
| metonymy | figure of speech in which a thing is represented by something closely associated with it like "the White House" to represent the president of the US |
| epigram | a short pithy comic or satirical poem |
| cinquain | a 5-line stanza |
| anaphora | rhetorical device in which several successive lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences begin with the same word or phrase |
| alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds |
| denotation | dictionary definition of the words |
| connotation | suggested meaning of the words |
| enjambment | a line whose sense and rythmic movement continues to the next line |
| figurative language | language that uses figures of speech such as simile and metaphor to compare one thing to another |
| found poem | text discovered in some nonpoetic setting (such as ads), removed from its contexts and presented as a poem |
| voice | speaker of the poem: not necessarily the poet |
| stichic | poetry in a single block of lines, not divided into stanzas |
| onomatopoeia | the use of a words that imitates the sound of what the word means like splat, sizzle, and buzz |
| simile | a comparison that uses a linking word (such as: like or as) to make the likeness clear. similar to metaphor, but a metaphor does not use linking words |
| tercet | any stanza of 3 lines |
| symbol | an image that radiates meanings which may be hard to express in other words but can be felt |
| emblematic verse | also called calligramme or concrete poem: a poem in which the words or letters form a typographical picture, either imitating how something looks or suggesting what the subject does |
| epic | a long narrative poem that tells a story central to the myths and beliefs of a people (Homer's "The Odyssey") |
| synechdoche | figure of speech in which a part of something indicates the whole (think "nech" as part of the body) such as "talking head" for television commentator ir "mouthpiece" for lawyer |
| sonnet | 14 line poem (about) usually rhymed, usually iambic pentameter, often presenting an argument and perhaps a romantic plea |
| oxymoron | an expression that combines opposite and contradictory qualities, seemingly nonsensical but capturing some psychological or emotional extreme of ambivalence |
| epitaph | (think what's written on one's grave) verses that commemorate a person or group of people who have died |
| scansion | the marking of a poem to note stressed/unstressed syllables, feet, and pauses |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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