poetry
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bekahLOVESnicole on December 15, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 alliteration | the repetition of initial and stressed sounds at the beginning of words |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in stressed words or syllables |
| blank verse | unrhymed lines, each with a pattern of five unstressed words rotating with five stressed ones |
| consonance | repetition of identical consonant sounds that are preceded by different vowel sounds |
| figurative language | language used for descriptive effect, often to imply ideas indirectly |
| simile | using like or as to compare two seemingly unalike things |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that compares or equated two or more things |
| Formal definition of poetry | captures intense experiences and creative preceptions of the world in a musical language |
| informal definition of poetry | a way of feeling life |
| personification | a figure of speech that gives human characteristics to non human things |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech in which great exageration is used for emphasis or humerous effect |
| imagery | the "word pictures" and author uses to help evoke an emotional response in readers |
| mood | the feeling or atmosphere that an author creates in a literary work |
| onomatopia | the use of words having sounds that suggest their meaning or which imitate the sounds associated with them |
| rhyme | ithe repetition of word ending sounds; specifically accented vowel sounds plus any succeding sounds (style, mile) |
| rhythm | the arrangement of stressed and unstresssed sounds, in speech and writting |
| symbol | an object, person, place, or experience that represents something else; usually something abstract |
| theme | the main idea of a story or plot |
| tone | a reflection of a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work |
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