Poetry Terms
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Vennava on February 4, 2011
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BJHS Creative Writing, PotatoBlossom, Sheltered World Lit, MVHS World Lit
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Speaker | the narrator of a poem |
| Occasion | an aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing |
| Audience | the intended reader of a piece |
| Purpose | one's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing |
| Subject | tells who or what the writing is about |
| Tone | the writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject of a story, toward a character, or toward the audience (the readers). |
| Alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds |
| Repetition | repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis |
| Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |
| Apostrophe | a technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object, an idea, or a person who is either dead or absent. |
| Oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') |
| Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |
| Extended Metaphor | a metaphor which extends over several lines or an entire poem |
| Hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |
| Metonymy | substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'I pledge allegiance to the flag') |
| Synecdoche | using a part of something to represent the whole thing |
| Masculine Rhyme | rhyme that falls on the stressed and concluding syllables of the rhyme-words. Examples include "keep" and "sleep," "glow" and "no," and "spell" and "impel." |
| Feminine Rhyme | is a rhyme that matches two or more syllables at the end of the respective lines (painted-acquainted, passion-fashion) |
| Slant Rhyme | rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme |
| Perfect Rhyme | a rhyme in which the corrsondance between the two sounds is exact |
| Terminal Rhyme | Perfect rhyme where the grammatical end of the line or thought coincides with the perfect rhyme. |
| Internal Rhyme | repetition of sounds within a line (but not at the end of the line) |
| Rhyme Scheme | the pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines in a poem |
| Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| Dissonance | disagreeable sounds |
| Consonance | the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words. ex: ping-pong, sound-sand, round-rind |
| Meter | patterns of regular rhythm in language |
| Foot | a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm |
| Syllable | A unit of speech heard as a single sound; one "beat" of a word or phrase. |
| Stressed | bearing a stress or accent |
| Unstressed | syllables that are not given a relative emphasis |
| Rhythm | the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements |
| Scansion | The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain |
| Pentameter | five feet per line (10 syllables per line of poetry) |
| Hexameter | six feet per line (12 syllables per line of poetry) |
| Iambic | one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable (tra-PEZE) |
| Sonnet | a short poem with fourteen lines, usually ten-syllable rhyming lines, divided into two, three, or four sections |
| Ode | a poem usually addressed to a particular person, object or event that has stimulated deep and noble feelings in the poet |
| Elegy | a sad or mournful poem (usually because of a death) |
| Blank Verse | unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter) |
| Free Verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| Stanza | a group of lines in a poem |
| Couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
| Triplet | three line stanza |
| Quatrain | a stanza of four lines |
| Cinquain | A five line stanza |
| Enjambed | the running over of a sentence or thought into the next line without a pause |
| End-Stopped | a term that describes a line of poetry that ends with a natural pause often indicated by a mark of punctuation |
| Caesura | a pause or break within a line of poetry (marked with || symbol) |
| Elision | The leaving out of an unstressed syllable or vowel, usually in order to keep a regular meter in a line of poetry. |
| Monometer | a metrical line containing one foot |
| Dimeter | a metrical line containing two feet |
| Trimeter | a metrical line with three feet |
| Tetrameter | a metrical line containing four feet |
| Hexameter | a metrical line containing six feet |
| Heptameter (septameter) | a metrical line containing seven feet |
| Trochaic (trochee) | one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable (PUMP-kin) |
| Spondaic (spondee) | A metrical foot consisting of two stressed syllables. (PAN-CAKE) |
| Pyrrhic (pyrrhus) | a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables (of the) |
| Anapestic (anapest) | metrical measurement of two unstressed syllables and then one stressed one (an-a-PEST)) |
| Dactyllic (dactyl) | A metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables (MAR-ma-lade) |
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