Poetry Test Study Guide
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. |
| Anaphora | When successive phrases or lines begin with the same words. Ex. "I am a rock. I am an island." |
| Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds. |
| Blank verse | A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
| Caesura | A strong pause within a line of verse. |
| Connotation | The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning. |
| Couplet | A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. |
| Denotation | The dictionary meaning of a word. |
| Diction | The selection of words in a literary work. |
| Elegy | A lyric poem that laments (mourns) the dead. |
| Enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line to the next. -Sentence that flows from one line to the next. |
| Figurative language | A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. |
| Free verse | Poetry without a regular pattern of a meter or rhyme. |
| Image/Imagery | A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or an idea. |
| Literal language | A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote. Opposite of figurative language. |
| Lyric poem | A type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and the expression of feeling. A short poem. Mother to Son. |
| Narrative poem | A poem that tells a story. The Raven. Lochinvar. |
| Ode | A long poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form. A poem devoted to something or someone. |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words to imitate sounds they describe. Ex. Buzz and crack are onomatopoetic. |
| Symbol | An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. |
| Speaker | The narrator of the poem. This is not necessarily the poet. |
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