"The Grammar of Poetry" Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Poetry | Pictures and music. |
| Trope | A specific figure of speech. |
| Rhyme Scheme | A combination of letters which represent the rhyming pattern of a poem. |
| Stanza | A paragraph of poetry. |
| Epiphany | To "show" or "reveal". |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which one object is being called something, which it is not, because of a similarity between the two. This comparison is made or, rather, implied without ant preposistion (as, like, than) to express the comparison. |
| Hyperbole | A figure of speech in which an exaggeration is made in order to add force or intensity to a statement. |
| Pun | A humorous use of words that sound alike or nearly alike, but have different meanings. |
| Blank verse | Poetry that does not rhyme. |
| Full rhyme | A pair of words that end with exact-sounding vowels and consonants. |
| Slant rhyme | A pair of words which end with approximate-sounding vowels or consonants. |
| Simile | A comparison of two dissimilar things using the words like, as, or than. |
| Synecdoche | A trope in which some striking part of an object stands for the whole or the whole for the part. |
| Personification | A figure of speech in which a thing or idea is being represented as though it had human qualities or abilities. |
| Rhetorical question | A figure of speech in which a question is asked for some other purpose than obtaining the imformation required. |
| Onomatopeia | A figure of speech in which words are used that sound like what they mean. |
| Alliteration | The repetition of identical consonant sounds at the beginning of words in the same line. |
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