Poetry Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word |
| Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests beyond the dictionary definition |
| Imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| Metaphor | an implied comparison used to describe two essentially unlike things |
| Simile | a comparison used to describe two essentially unlike things expressed using the words, like or as |
| Apostrophe | address of someone/thing who is absent, dead, or nonhuman as if that person/thing were present, alive, and could reply |
| Synecdoche | the use of a part for a whole |
| Metonymy | the use of something closely related for the thing actually meant |
| Symbol | something that means more than what it is |
| Allegory | a narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface |
| Hyperbole | an exaggeration |
| Paradox | an apparent contradiction that is somehow true |
| Irony | some type of discrepancy between what is said and what is meant |
| Allusion | reference to something in history or previous literature |
| Tone | writer's or speaker's attitude toward his subject, his audience or himself |
| Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| Alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| Consonance | repetition of final consonant sounds |
| Slant rhyme | words with any kind of sound similarity |
| Rhythm | the natural rise and fall of language |
| Meter | repetitive rhythm |
| Verse | metrical language |
| Prose | non-metrical language |
| Onomatopoeia | use of words to express specific sounds |
| Structure | arrangement of a poem's ideas, images, and thoughts |
| Stanza | unit of verse made up of lines |
| Free verse | non-metrical verse arranged in lines; may be rhythmic, but no fixed metrical pattern |
| Caesura | a pause introduced into the reading of a line by a mark of punctuation |
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