Poetry Terms
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ClassicKay on September 15, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Scansion | Analysis of rhythm and rhyme |
| Rhyme | The harmonious similarity of sounds which may occur at the end (end rhyme) or internally ( internal rhyme) in the lines. |
| Rhythm | The recurring beat, cadence or pulse of a poem or language which is achieved by alternating accent and stress on each syllable of a word. |
| Foot | Division or metric unit of rhythm: which, cannot choose (2 feet) |
| monometer | a line containing one foot |
| dimeter | a line containing two feet |
| trimeter | a line containing three feet |
| tetrameter | a line containing four feet |
| pentameter | A line containing five feet |
| hexameter | A line containing six feet |
| alliteration | repetition of a sound of letter in an initial position of various words or of a consonant sound or vowel sound within the words themselves. |
| onomatopoeia | When the sound echoes the sense or essence of the meaning; the imitation of natural sounds in words. |
| Hyperbole | Exaggerated or inflated language. |
| Personification | Giving inanimate objects human feelings. |
| Simile | An image that makes a comparison, using the words "like" or "as". A simile is basically a suggestion of a comparison. |
| Metaphor | A stronger, more direct image or figure of speech. It dispenses with the "like" or "as" and instead of making a comparison, directly states that something is literally another. |
| Symbol | A concrete image or figure of speech which represents something else; sometimes what is being represented is something or an idea which is abstract, as a tree may be a symbol for life. |
| Couplet | Two consecutive lines that are linked by rhyme and/or theme. |
| Sonnet | a 14 line poem of specific rhyme scheme (Spencerian, Shakespearean, Petrarchan); the first part (octove) is general exposition, the second (sestet) is a specific, ironic turn of subject matter. |
| Image | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense |
| Mood | The feeling created by the writer in the poem. |
| Tone | The author's attitude towards his subject in the poem. |
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