English IV Poetry Unit
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Approximate Rhyme | also called half rhyme, slant rhyme, or imperfect rhyme; words contain similar sounds but do not rhyme perfectly |
| Ballad | a poem that recounts a story in the form of a song |
| Blank Verse | un-rhymed but otherwise regular verse, usually iambic pentameter |
| Caesura | a pause or break in a line of poetry; the break is dictated not by meter, but by natural speaking rhythm |
| Canto | a section, often numbered, of a long poem |
| Conceit | An elaborate, usually intellectually ingenious poetic comparison or image, such as an analogy or metaphor in which, say a beloved is compared to a ship, planet, etc. The comparison may be brief or extended |
| Connotation | the feeling or attitude associated with a word, related to but quite distinct from its literal meaning |
| Denotation | the literal, dictionary definition of a word (as opposed to connotation) |
| Elegy | traditional poetic form treating the death of a person in a formal, philosophical way (mournful, melancholy poem) |
| End Rhyme | rhyme that occurs at the end of lines in poetry |
| Enjambment | French for "striding over,"...a poetic statement that spans more than one line (as opposed to end stopped line) |
| Epic | long narrative poem dealing with national heroes having a world wide or cosmic setting, and written in a deliberately ceremonial style |
| Heroic Couplet | iambic pentameter lines in rhymed pairs |
| Internal Rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry |
| Juxtaposition | placement of two items (scenes, descriptions, events, etc.) side by side for effect, emphasis, or contrast |
| Lyric | brief poem strongly marked by imagination, melody, and emotion and creating a single, unified impression |
| Meter | generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry |
| Ode | a long lyric poem, formal in style and complex in form, often written for a special occasion; originally a Greek form |
| Poetry | communication of thought and feeling through careful arrangement of rhythm, sound, and the concentrated, concrete use of language |
| Couplet | pair of successive lines of verse that rhyme |
| Quatrain | verse stanza of four lines |
| Sestet | six-line stanza |
| Octave | eight-line stanza |
| Free Verse | poetry with rhythm and other poetic devices, but without meter or regular rhyme scheme |
| Stanza | a grouped set of lines in a poem, usually physically separated from other such clusters by a blank line; stanzas often have a recurrent form |
| Refrain | repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines in poetry |
| Rhyme Scheme | pattern of end rhyme in a stanza, which is either conventional or repeated in another stanza |
| Sonnet | 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter |
| Assonance | repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in proximate words (ex. Fate and Cave) |
| Consonance | repetition of a final consonant sound or sounds following different vowel sounds in proximate words (ex. Made and Wood) |
| Euphony | language which strikes the ear as smooth, pleasant, musical |
| Cacophony | language which is perceived as harsh, rough, and unmusical |
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