English 10 Quarter 4 Poetry Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 alliteration | the repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants or consonant clusters at the beginning of words |
| allusion | a reference to a person, a place, an event, or a literary work that a writer expects the reader to recognize and respond to |
| assonance | repetition of similar vowel sounds within non-rhyming words |
| connotation | all the emotions and associations that a word or phrase may arouse |
| consonance | the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words |
| couplet | any two consecutive lines that rhyme |
| denotation | the literal or dictionary meaning of a word |
| diction | a writers choice of words, particularly for clarity, effectiveness, and precision |
| end rhyme | rhymes that occur at the ends of lines |
| epic | a long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflecting the values of the society from which it originated |
| free verse | verse that has either no metrical pattern or an irregular pattern |
| iambic pentameter | a rhythm pattern of five metric feet of light, then heavy beats |
| imagery | words or phrases that appeal to the senses and create pictures or images in the reader's mind |
| lyric poem | a poem, usually short, that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts or feelings (includes elegy, ode and sonnet) |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically dissimilar |
| meter | a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry; measure of the rhythm of a poetic line |
| narrative poem | a poem that tells a story |
| onomatopoeia | the use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning |
| personification | a figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities |
| quatrain | stanza or poem with four lines |
| refrain | a word, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem, usually at the end of each stanza |
| repetition | repeated words or phrases |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhymes in a poem |
| rhythm | the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern |
| simile | comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word of comparison such as like or as |
| sonnet | fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter |
| speaker | persona or person speaking in the poem |
| stanza | verse of a poem |
| theme | the general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express in a literary work |
| tone | attitude demonstrated by the writer toward his or her subject |
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