Poetry: Unit 3 Literary Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 prose | literarure that is written in sentences and paragraphs |
| line | the basic unit of poetry |
| stanza | a group of lines forming a unit in a poem or song |
| speaker | the voice that communicates with the reader of a poem, similar to the narriator in a work of prose |
| simile | a figure of speech that uses the word like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that make s a comparison between two seemingly unlike things |
| personification | a figure of speech in which an animal, object, force of nature, or idea is given human characteristics |
| imagery | descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taset, and smell |
| rhyme | the repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds and any succeeding sounds in two or more words |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern that end rhymes form in a stanza or poem |
| rhythm | the pattern of beats created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables, especially in poetry |
| meter | a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a line of poetry a predictable rhyme |
| foot | the basic unit in the measurement of rhythm in poetry |
| alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds, generally at the beginning of words |
| consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds, typically within or at the end of words and do not rhyme and precede different vowel sounds |
| assonance | the repetition of same of similar vowel sounds in words that are close together |
| onomatopoeia | the use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes |
| repetition | the recurrence of sounds, words, phrasees, lines, or stanzas in a poem, speech, or other piece of writing |
| couplet | two concutive lines of rhymed verse that work together as a unit to make a point or to express an idea |
| sestet | a six-line poem or stanza |
| enjambment | the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of a poem to the next, without a paust between the lines |
| octave | a eight-line stanza |
| quatrain | a four-line stanza |
| free verse | poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, rhyme length, or stanza arrangement |
| haiku | a traditional Japanese form of poetry that has three lines and seventeen syllables |
| tanka | unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of five lines |
| sonnet | a lyric poem of fourteen lines, typically written in iambic pentameter and usually following strict patterns of stanza division and rhyme |
| diction | writer's choice of words |
| symbolism | any person, animal, place, object, or event that sxists on a literal level within a work but also represents something on a figurative level |
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