monty's h-english 10 poetry terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 alliteration | repetition of first sounds/syllables |
| allusion | author refers to something from lliterature or history that the reader is expected to understand |
| anapest | two unaccented syllables and one accented syllable |
| aside | actor speaks only to audience, other actors don't hear |
| blank verse | unrhymed verse |
| apostrophe | speaker directly addresses something nonhuman |
| anaphora | same word or words repeated at beginning of multiple lines, clauses, sentences, etc |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| caesura | strong pause in the middle of a line |
| archaic diction | old language, old English |
| chiasmus | rhetorical- 2 clauses are related through reversal of terms to make a larger point |
| conceit | fanciful or elaborate figure of speech makes surprising connection between 2 dissimilar things |
| couplet | 2 rhyming lines |
| dactyl | one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables |
| catharsis | purging of emotional tenses |
| end-stop line | has a naturaal pause at the end of a line |
| diction | helps define writer's style- word choice, dialect, syntax, etc |
| enjambment | like a run-on line- thought continues after line |
| dramatic monologue | one speaker talks to the reader- often speaker reveals something about their character |
| feminine rhyme | rhyming final unstressed syllablle |
| epic | long dignified narrative poem about a hero |
| figurative language | a phrase that is not taken literally to get a point across to the reader |
| free verse | unrhymed poetry, no rhythmic pattern |
| hyperbole | exaggeration for comic effect |
| hexameter | 6 metrical units/beats per line |
| imagery | descriptions that support theme, mood |
| iamb | one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable |
| litotes | affirmative expressed by negating the opposite |
| inversion | reversal of normal word order |
| mask (persona) | speaker or voice of a literary work- who is doing the talking |
| cacophony | harsh discordant combination of sounds |
| metaphor | relating 2 unlike things without using like or as |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds |
| metaphysical | more concerned with analyzing emotion than expressing it- uses bold conceits, paradox, etc |
| elegy | lyric poem that laments the ddead |
| metonymy | substituting word for something with word for something closely associated |
| heroic couplet | 2 rhyming lines in iambic pentameter |
| onomatopoeia | word imitates sound it represents |
| lyric | expression of feeling characterises this type of poems |
| masculine rhyme | rhyming 2 stressed syllablles |
| paradox | contradictory ideas that when put together work |
| meter | poetic measure, words arranged in regularly measured, patterened, or rhythmic lines or verses |
| parallelism | important ideas, phrases, words, structures repeated |
| ode | long, stately poem in stanzas of varried length, meter, and form |
| personification | giving human characteristics to an unhuman thing |
| pentameter | 5 beats/line |
| repetition | repeating words, phrases, lines, stanzas |
| quatrain | 4 line stanza |
| rhyme royal | 7 lines of iambic pentameter |
| simile | relating 2 unlike things with like or as |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhymes used in a poem or stanza |
| structure | the organization of a poem- how all of the little parts fit together |
| rhythm | recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse |
| style | how an author writes using syntax, language, and other literary devices |
| run-on line | like enjambment, thought continues after line |
| sonnet | 14 lines in iambic pentameter |
| symbolism | sustained use of symbols to represent other themes or ideas |
| spondee | 2 stressed syllables |
| synecdoche | substituting term for part in place of term for whole |
| stanza | unified group of lines, like a paragraph in a poem |
| terza rima | 10-11 syllable lines in three-line tercets |
| trochee | one accented syllable then one unaccented syllable |
| tone | author's attitude toward reader |
| villanele | 19-line lyric that relies heavily on repetition |
| trope | a shift in the meaning of words |
| volta | sudden change of direction, thought, or emotion near the end of a sonnet |
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