English I: Poetry Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Assonance | Repeated vowel sounds |
| Consonance | Repeated consonant sounds |
| Alliteration | Repeated sounds are the first sound of the word. |
| Onomatopoeia | Words that make the sound they refer to |
| Meter | Pattern of stressed syllables and unstressed syllables in a line. |
| Image | A mental representation |
| Line break | When the line of a poem ceases to extend, and a new line starts. |
| Couplet | Two lines together that rhyme |
| Caesura | Pause in the middle of a line |
| Enjambment | When a thought stops in the middle of a line |
| Stanza | Each paragraph |
| Free verse | A verse that doesn't follow a fixed metrical pattern |
| Blank verse | Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter |
| Diction | Style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words |
| Connotation | Associated or secondary meaning of a word/expression. |
| Rhyme | A word agreeing with another word in terminal sound. |
| Symbol | Something used for or regarded as representing something else |
| Simile | A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared; sometimes by using the words "like" or "as". |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable. |
| Lyric | A type of poem that is characterized by expressing spontaneous, direct feeling of a poet's own thoughts. |
| Narrative | A type of poem that tells a story or account of events or experiences, whether they are true or not. |
| Ballad | A simple narrative poem composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing. |
| Sonnet | A poem that expresses a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment. Made of 14 lines and usually in iambic pentameter with rhymes arranged according to one of a certain scheme. |
| Personification | The resemblance of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract things, especially a rhetorical figure. |
| Hyperbole | Obvious and intentional exaggeration, not meaning to be taken seriously. |
| Understatement | Representing in a weak or restrained way that is not borne out by the facts. |
| Allusion | An accidental mention of something, either directly or by hint. |
| Tone | Any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, or source. |
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