English 11 poetry terms
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Created by:
orcaet on July 19, 2012
Subjects:
English Literature and Language Arts
Classes:
Thompson's English 11 American Literature, Mr. Thompson's Summer School English 9
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Rhyme | the repetition of sounds at the ends of words |
| Rhyme Scheme | a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |
| Meter | a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry; it is determined by the number of unstressed and stressed syllables in a line |
| Metaphor | a comparison of unlike things that does not use like or as |
| Simile | a comparison of unlike things that uses like, as, and sometimes than |
| Figurative Language | writing or speech not meant to be interpreted literally; used to create vivid images and comparisons |
| Stanza | A group of lines in a poem: A poetry paragraph |
| Quatrain | A four-lined stanza |
| Personification | giving a non-human thing human qualities or characteristics |
| Couplet | A two-lined stanza that usually rhymes |
| Cinquain | A five-lined stanza |
| Symbol | something that has meaning in itself and represents something else |
| Mood | the overall feeling of a story or how the story makes the reader feel |
| Iamb | a unit of meter that is also called a foot. It consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. |
| Iambic Tetrameter | A type of meter that has four Iambs per line (8 total syllables) |
| Alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| Iambic Pentameter | a type of meter that has five iambs per line. (remember that an iamb contains two syllables and so Iambic Pentameter will have 10 syllables per line.) |
| Tone | Author's opinion or attitude towards something in a work of literature |
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