Exam Review on Poetry Terms
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Exam: Wednesday, June 13, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 tone | the attitude a writer takes toward the audience, the subject, or a character |
| ballad | song or poem that tells a story; there are two types folk and literary |
| aside | When an actor makes a remark to the audience and the actors on stage as they have not heard it. |
| refrain | A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines. |
| soliloquy | A speech that is spoken alone a stage. |
| sonnet | A fourteen-line poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes. |
| alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds for tonal or sound effect. |
| assonance | Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them, in words that are close together in a poem. |
| onomatopoeia | Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning. |
| stanza | Group of consecutive lines in a poem that forms a single unit. |
| speaker | The voice that is talking to us in a poem. |
| dramatic irony | When the audience knows something that the actors on stage are unaware of. |
| internal rhyme | Rhymes in the middle of a line. |
| allusion | A reference to something in mythology, history, religion, or sports. |
| catalog poem | A poem that lists images for effect. |
| dialogue | Conversation between characters in a poem. |
| hyperbole | An exaggeration used for emphasis and to express strong emotion; overstatement |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| mood | a poem's atmosphere or the feeling it evokes |
| rhyme scheme | a pattern of end rhyme, usually given letter designations |
| lyric poetry | poetry which expresses the speaker's thoughts or feelings |
| ballad | a type of narrative poem or storytelling poem usually with a traditional rhyme scheme, repetition, and refrain |
| theme | the central ideal of the meaning of a piece of literature |
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