English Poetic Literary Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Alliteration | The repetition of the same consonant |
| Assonance | Repetition of the same vowel |
| Allusion | indirect reference |
| Cliche | Common saying |
| Connotation/Dictation | Word choice the author uses that goes beyond its actual meaning, and creates a new one based off the context |
| Denotation/Literal | Literal definition of a word |
| Figurative language | Language used to create special thoughts or feeling (Ex. Personification, Metaphor, Simile) |
| Hyperbole | Exaggeration |
| Imagery/Sensory Detail | The 5 senses used to create an image |
| Irony | The opposite of what you would expect/ The use of word to mean the exact opposite of its literal meaning |
| Metaphor | Comparing to unlike things, without using the words like or as |
| Extended Metaphor | A metaphor going into detail of the two comparisons being made |
| Onomatopoeia | Using words to create sounds Ex. Boom! |
| Juxtaposition | Putting to contrasting things next to each other, to create a new meaning |
| Personification | Giving non-living things human attributes |
| Speaker | The speaker of the poem |
| Repetition | Repeating a sound, word, etc. |
| Rhyme & Rhyme Schemes | The way the author rhymes, whether in certain stanzas, or one rhyme throughout a whole poem |
| Shifts | The authors tone, and the way he changes to a different one |
| simile | Comparing to unlike things using the words like or as |
| Stanza | the lines of a poem |
| Symbolism | Person, place or repetition of a person or something else (John Lennon) |
| Tone | The authors word choice and attitude about the poem |
| Theme | The overall message throughout the poem |
| Comic Relief | To ease the current situation by humor and jokes |
| Pun | The use of a word or sentence in two ways |
| Double entendre | The use of a pun in a sexual way |
| Oxymoron | Saying the something small is big |
| Foreshadowing | Giving out hints and clues to what will happen later in the novel |
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