Poetry Terms
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KristinaBales on January 6, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse |
| Rhyme Scheme | the pattern of rhyme in a poem |
| Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds |
| Consonance | the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words |
| Meter | the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that can establish the rhythm of a poem |
| Stanza | a group of lines in a poem or song that constitute a division (in prose: paragraph) |
| Couplet | a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse that rhyme |
| Quatrain | a stanza of four lines |
| Free Verse | consists of lines of poetry that do not have a regular rhythm and do not rhyme |
| Sonnet | a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme |
| Imagery | The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, thing, place, or experience |
| Metaphor | comparison not using like or as |
| Personification | a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics |
| Allusion | a reference to another work of literature, person, or event |
| Paradox | an apparently contradictory statement that is perhaps true |
| Symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else |
| Apostrophe | a poem speaks to something that cannot respond. |
| Inversion | the reversal of the normal order of words |
| Parallelism | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structure |
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