Lalley - English II - Poetry Terminology
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. |
| Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose |
| Blank Verse | A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Caesura | A strong pause within a line of verse. |
| Connotation | The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning. |
| Couplet | A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem |
| Denotation | The dictionary meaning of a word. |
| Diction | The selection of words in a work |
| Enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. |
| Figurative language | A form of language in which writers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words |
| Free verse | Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. |
| Hyperbole | A figure of speech involving exaggeration. |
| Image/Imagery | A concrete representation of a sense of impression, a feeling or idea |
| Meter | The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems |
| Metonymy | A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea. |
| Octave | An 8 line unit, which may constitute a stanza; or a poem section, as in the octave of a sonnet |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. |
| Personification | Giving inanimate objects or abstract concepts living qualities |
| Quatrain | A 4 line stanza in a poem. the first 4 lines and the second 4 lines in a petrachan sonnet |
| Rhythm | The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse |
| Sestet | A 6 line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem; the last 6 lines of an Italian sonnet. |
| Sonnet | A 14 line poem in iambic pentameter. |
| Symbol | An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. |
| Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole |
| Understatement | A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means; the opposite of exaggeration. |
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