Poetry Terms
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Strausbaugh on December 1, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 symbol | something that stands for itself at a literal level but which also suggests something (or several things) at the same time |
| allusion | a reference to a person, place, event, or idea outside the poem |
| hyperbole | extreme exaggeration for effect |
| simile | comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
| metaphor | an comparison used to enhance the meaning of what is being compared; may be direct (X is Y) or implied ("He wanted to win her heart" comparing love to a battle) |
| personification | attributing human characteristics to something not human |
| figurative language | writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid. |
| alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse |
| onomatopoeia | using words that imitate the sound they denote |
| repetition | the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a sound device |
| end rhyme | rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry |
| internal rhyme | a rhyme between words in the same line |
| slant rhyme | rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme |
| rhyme scheme | a pattern of rhyming lines in a poem or verse of a poem often indicated with matching letters to show which line rhymes. |
| mood | the feeling of a story, poem, or text |
| tone | the attitude of the author toward the subject or the audience |
| speaker | the voice or narrator of the poem |
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