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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds |
| Repetition | repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis |
| Imagery | words or phrases that use a collection of images to appeal to one or more of the five senses in order to create a mental picture |
| Paradox | a self-contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities |
| Anaphora | the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences |
| Oxymoron | a figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms (ex: jumbo shrimp, deafening silence, business ethics) |
| Personification | giving human qualities to animals or objects |
| Extended Metaphor | a metaphor which extends over several lines or an entire poem |
| Hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor |
| Ode | a poem usually addressed to a particular person, object or event that has stimulated deep and noble feelings in the poet |
| Elegy | a mournful poem |
| Blank Verse | unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter |
| Free Verse | poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| Stanza | A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit; a division of a poem that is often referred to as a "paragraph of poetry" |
| Couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
| Tercet | a three line stanza (usually these line rhyme) |
| Quatrain | a four line stanza |
| Cinquain | a five line stanza |
| Enjambed | the running over of a sentence or thought into the next couplet or line without a pause at the end of the line; a run-on line |
| End-stopped | a line of poetry that ends with a natural pause often indicated by a mark of punctuation (period, comma, semicolon, colon, exclamation point, etc) |
| Caesura | a strong pause within a line of verse (denoted with "||" |
| Line Break | the most important point in a line of poetry: the breath or pause at the end of each row of words. Used along with or instead of punctuation marks, a line break is a deliberate choice by the poet and its use can affect a poem's sound, meaning, and appearance |
| Explication | the act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text. Explication usually involves close reading and special attention to figurative language. |
| Masculine Rhyme | rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable (ex: MAN and FAN) |
| Feminine Rhyme | a rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed (ex: "WA-ken" and "for-SA-ken" and "au-DI-tion" and "ren-DI-tion") Feminine rhyme is sometimes called double rhyme. |
| Slant/Half Rhyme | words that do repeat some sounds but do not have exact chiming sounds ("find" and "sign"). |
| Perfect Rhyme | rhymes involving sound that are exactly the same (ex: love, dove) |
| Eye Rhyme | words creating visual alikeness without sounding at all alike (as in "cough" and "though") |
| Terminal Rhyme | perfect rhyme where the grammatical end of a line or thought coincides with the perfect rhyme |
| Internal Rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end |
| Rhyme Scheme | the pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences (ex: abab cdcd) |
| Assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds among words in close proximity |
| Dissonance | a harsh, disagreeable combination of sounds |
| Consonance | repetition of consonant sounds among words in close proximity, as in boost/best; it can also be seen within several compound words, such as fulfill and ping-pong |
| Meter | a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry |
| Foot | the basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry, formed by a combination of two or three syllables, either stressed or unstressed. |
| Syllable | a unit of speech heard as a single sound; one "beat" of a word or phrase. |
| Stressed | an emphasized or accented syllable |
| Unstressed | a weak or unaccented syllable |
| Rhythm | a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of other sound patterns |
| Elision | the omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry |
| Scansion | the analysis of a poem's meter. This is usually done by marking the stressed and unstressed syllables in each line and then based on the pattern of the stresses dividing the line into feet. You can scan a line of poetry or perform scansion on it. |
| Monometer | a line of poetry containing one metrical foot |
| Dimeter | a line of poetry containing two metrical feet |
| Trimeter | a line of poetry containing three metrical feet |
| Tetrameter | a line of poetry containing four metrical feet |
| Pentameter | a line of poetry containing five metrical feet |
| Hexameter | a line of poetry containing six metrical feet |
| Septameter | a line of poetry containing seven metrical feet |
| Iamb (Iambic) | a metrical foot consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. (ex: tra-PEZE) |
| Trochee (Trochaic) | a meterical unit of verse consisting of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed (ex: TRO-chee, PUMP-kin) |
| Spondee (Spondaic) | a metrical foot consisting of two stressed syllables (ex: SPON-DEE, PAN-CAKE, RAIL-ROAD) |
| Pyrrhic (Pyrrhic) | a metrical foot consisting of two unstressed syllables (ex: of-the, in-an) |
| Anapest (Anapestic) | a meterical foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable (ex: an-a-PEST, se-ven-TEEN) |
| Dactyl (Dactylic) | a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables (ex: MAR-ma-lade) |
| Juxtaposition | placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast |
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