Poetry Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words |
| Anaphora | type of repetition when the first word or set of words repeats: I have a dream |
| Apostrophe | formal invocation to absent person or to an inanimate object: Walt! Where have you gone? |
| Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants |
| Ballad | a poem in verse form that tells a story |
| Blank Verse | an unrhymed form of poetry. Each line normally consists of 10 syllable is which every other syllable is stressed |
| Caesura | a pause or sudden break in a line of poetry |
| Consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds. Not limited to the first letters of words: |
| Couplet | a pair of lines of verse of the same length that usually rhyme |
| Diction | the use of words in a literary text |
| End Rhyme | the rhyming of words that appear at the ends of two or more lines of poetry |
| Enjambment | the running over of a sentence or thought from one line to another |
| Eye Rhyme | what looks like rhyme but isn't |
| Iambic Pentameter | the patterned repetition of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable in a line of poetry |
| Free Verse | poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| Haiku | a form of Japanese poetry that has three lines: the first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third line has 5 syllables. The subject is traditionally about nature |
| Heroic Couplet | consists of two successive rhyming lines that contain a complete thought |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration or overtatement |
| Image | a literal and concrete representation of a sensory experience |
| Imagery | the collection of images in a literary work |
| Internal Rhyme | occurs when the rhyming words appear in the same line of poetry |
| Lyric | a short verse that is intended to express the emotions of the author |
| Meter | the patterned repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
| Metonymy | referring to one thing by using the name of something closely associated with it |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of a word whose sounds suggests its meaning: clang, buzz, twang, etc |
| Personification | giving human qualities to non-human entities |
| Refrain | the repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals, especially at the end of each stanza |
| Rhythm | the regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry. |
| Slant Rhyme | rhyme that is not exact but that connects words by their consonant sounds |
| Sonnet | a poem consisting of 14 lines of iambic pentameter |
| Stanza | a division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains |
| Style | the personality of work based on its diction, syntax, imagery, meter, structure, emphasis, etc |
| Synaesthesia | the blurring of the senses/ one sensory impression evokes those of another sense: a purple melody played in the background |
| Synecdoche | a part that stands for the whole: all hands on deck |
| Syntax | the arrangement of a sentence |
| Tone | the attitude toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a work, the mood |
| True Rhyme | exact or perfect rhyme, begins with different consonants but has identical stressed vowels: try, cry |
| Verse | a metric line of poetry. |
| Monometer | 1 verse |
| Dimeter | 2 verse |
| Trimeter | 3 verse |
| Tetrameter | 4 verse |
| Pentameter | 5 verse |
| Hexameter | 6 verse |
| Heptameter | 7 verse |
| Octometer | 8 verse |
| Couplet | 2 line stanza |
| Triplet | 3 line stanza |
| Quatrain | 4 line stanza |
| Quintet | 5 line stanza |
| Sestet | 6 line stanza |
| Septet | 7 line stanza |
| Octave | 8 line stanza |
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