Poetry terms
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goofball929 on October 10, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words |
| Assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds in a line of poetry or prose |
| consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds |
| connotation | the emotional associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning |
| denotation | the dictionary meaning of a word |
| free verse | poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme |
| figurative language | a form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other that the literal meaning of their words. Examples include simile and metaphor and personification. |
| metaphor | A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as |
| personification | the endowment of inantimate objects or abstract concepts with living/human qualities |
| imagery | descriptions that appeal to any one or combination of the five senses |
| rhyme | The repetition of sounds in words usually, but not exclusively, at the end of lines of poetry |
| simile | A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as or as though. |
| symbol | An object of action in a literary work that means more that itself, that stands for something beyond itself, usually something abstract |
| rhythm | the beat of words which gives poetry a musical quality |
| lyric poem | A type of poem characterized by brevity, compression and the expression of feeling |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words to imitate the sounds they discribe |
| tone | the attitude of the writer or speaker toward the subject of audience |
| allusion | a brief reference to a historical of literary figure, event, or object. |
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