Poetry Terms...
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persiafreshteh on April 1, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 tactile imagery | appeals to sense of touch |
| organic imagery | appeals to hunger, thirst, fatigue |
| kinesthetic imagery | appeals to touch, temperature, movement, and feelings |
| metaphor | a figure of speech where a comparison is made without using like or as |
| figure of speech | any way of saying something other than the ordinary way; a way of saying one thing and meaning another |
| figurative language | language employing figures of speech; language that cannot be taken literally |
| simile | a figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things using like or as |
| personification | a figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, of a concept |
| metonomy | a figure of speech in which some significant aspect of detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience |
| named metaphor | when the actual comparison is named in the work |
| implied metaphor | the literal term is named and the figurative term is implied |
| apostrophe | a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply |
| symbol | a figure of speech in which something means more than what it is |
| allegory | a narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface |
| paradox | a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements |
| overstatement | hyperbole |
| understatement | a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants |
| irony | a situation, or use of language, involving some kind of incongruity or discrpancy |
| verbal irony | a figure of speech in which what is meant is the opposite of what is said |
| satire | a kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about reform or of keeping others from falling into similar folly or vice |
| sarcasm | bitter or cutting speech; speech intended by its speaker to give pain to the person addressed |
| dramatic irony | a device by which the author implies a different meaning from that intended by the speaker in a literary work |
| irony of situation | a situation in which there is an incongruity between actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate or between what is anticipated and what actually comes to pass |
| dramatic monologue | when a single speaker in literature speaks to a silent audience |
| allusion | a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history |
| total meaning | the total experience communicated by a poem; it includes all those dimensions of experience by which a poem communicates and it can be communicated in not other words than those of the poem itself |
| prose meaning | the part of a poem's total meaning that can be separated out and expressed through paraphrase |
| tone | the writer's or speaker's attitude toward his subject, his audience, or himself; the emotional coloring, or emotional meaning , of a work |
| alliteration | the repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words |
| assonance | the repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words |
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