Poetry Study Guide
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 paradox | apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true/adds shock value |
| overstatement | simply exaggeration, but exaggeration in the service of truth |
| understatement | saying less than what one really means |
| allusion | a reference to something in history or previous literature, used to say something more |
| tone | writer's attitude toward subject matter, writer, speaker, or reader |
| repetition | individual vowels, consonant sounds, words, phrases, lines, groups of lines |
| alliteration | repetition of initial (first) consonant sounds |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| consonance | repetition of final consonant sound |
| refrain | the repetition of a word, phrase, or group of lines |
| rhyme | repetition of accented vowel sound and any succeeding vowel sound |
| masculine | rhyme is only one syllable |
| feminine | rhyme involves two or more |
| internal | rhyme within a line |
| end rhyme | rhyme at end of line |
| approximate | sound is similar, not exact |
| foot | consists of one accented syllable and one unaccented syllable (at least). |
| rhythm | refers to any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound |
| prose | has no pattern like verse does |
| caesuras | another resource for varying the rhythm of lines |
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