Poetry/Figures of Speech
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| cadence | rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words |
| formal poetry | Poems that follow a set meter and form. |
| iambic trimeter | a line of poetry with 3 iambic feet, each containing one syllable followed by one stressed syllable. |
| iambic pentameter | a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable |
| meter | rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time |
| sonnet | a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme |
| stanza | a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem |
| verse | a piece of poetry |
| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| allusion | a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize |
| anaphora | the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences |
| apostrophe | a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction |
| assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words |
| chiasmus | a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed ("Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary.") |
| euphemism | an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive |
| hyperbole | use of exaggerated terms for emphasis or heightened effeect |
| irony | incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs |
| litote | a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite (describing a particularly horrific scene by saying, "It was not a pretty picture.") |
| metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it |
| paradox | (logic) a self-contradiction |
| pun | a humorous play on words |
| synecdoche | using a part of something to represent the whole thing |
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