Elements of Poetry
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 line | sequence of words pronted separately on a page |
| stanza | grouping of lines set off by a space |
| quatrain | four-line stanza |
| tone | writer's attitude toward the subject; the mood of the poem ex. playful, sad, seriosu, angry, affectionate, bitter |
| speaker persona | voice used by author of the poem (not neccesarily the poet herself) |
| allusion | brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature |
| symbol | person, object, or image that evokes meaning beyond simply what it is |
| theme | idea; main message about life |
| imagery | language that addresses one of the five senses |
| metaphor | comparison of two things without using like or as |
| simile | comparison of two things using like or as |
| alliteration | repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginnings (and sometimes the middle) of the words near each other; based on sounds ex. luscious lemon, descending dewdrops |
| rhyme | repition of identical and concluding syllables at the end of lines |
| rhyme scheme | pattern of end rhymes; can mark the rhymes using latters |
| meter | rhymthmic pattern of stresses that appears in a poem |
| iambic pentameter | will be in ten-syllable line; five pairs of unstressed and then stressed syllablees appear often in Shakesphere's works; |
| prose | sounds like the way that people normally speak |
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