Poetry Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 3 mistaken approaches to poetry | always rhymes, teaches a lesson/moral, always is beautiful |
| symbol | something concrete used to represent something abstract |
| consonance | the repitition of consonant sounds that are not at the begining of words in a line of verse (may be at the middle or end) |
| 4 types of figurative language | compare, exaggerate, symbols, sound |
| assonance | the similarity or repitition of vowel sound in 2 or more words with different consonant sounds (not by spelling) |
| metaphor | compares two dissimilar things without using words such as "like" "as" "than" or "resembles" |
| direct metaphor | directly compares two things with a verb such as "is" or "are" |
| implied metaphor | suggests a comparison without using "is" |
| extended metaphor | metaphor that is developed over several lines of writing |
| apostrophe | addressing something nonhuman as if it were human |
| personification | giving human or animate qualities to something nonhuman or inanimate |
| literary allusion | a reference to a person, place, or thing from previous literature; the 3 most popular : bible, shakespeare, and mythology |
| irony | saying the opposite of what is true |
| paradox | an apparent contradiction which proves, upon examination, to be true |
| hyperbole | exaggeration for the sake of effect, for emphasis not to be taken literally, overstatement |
| refrain | the repitition of one or more phrases or lines at definite intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza |
| repitition | repeating a word or phrase within a poem |
| 3 reasons to use repitition | 1) sounds pleasing to the ear 2) emphasizes idea 3) gives peom structure |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate the sounds they define |
| similie | two dissimilar things that are compared using words such as "like" "as" "than" or "resembles" |
| poetry | rhythmic, compressed language that uses figure of speech and imagery to appeal to emotion and imagination |
| antithesis | balancing or contrasting one thing against another for effect |
| alliteration | the repitition of the initial consonant sound in 2 or more words in a line of verse |
| narrative poem | story told in verse form |
| lyric poem | brief, personal poem that is especially musical and filled with emotion; sonnets, odes, and elegies |
| ballad poem | type of peom that is meant to be sung is both lyric and narrative in nature |
| stanza | a groupd of consecutvie lines in a poem that form a single unit; a division of a poem that is often referred to as a "paragraph of poetry" |
| couplet | a 2 line stanza |
| triplet | a 3 line stanza |
| quatrain | a 4 line stanza |
| quintet | a 5 line stanza |
| sestet | a 6 line stanza |
| septet | a 7 line stanza |
| octave | a 8 line stanza |
| rhyme | the similarity or likeness of sound in 2 or more words |
| perfect rhyme (exact rhyme) | rhyme involving sounds that are exactly the same |
| imperfect rhyme (approximate rhyme) | rhyme involving sounds that are simlar but not exactly the same |
| eye rhyme (sight rhyme) | rhyme that depends on spelling rather than sound; words that look like they should rhyme but dont |
| end rhyme | rhyme that occurs between words found at the ends of two or more lines in a poem |
| internal rhyme | rhyme between words that occurs within a single line of poetry |
| end stopped line | punctuation at the end of the line |
| run on line | sentence continues on to the next line |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern or sequence in which end rhyme occurs throughout a poem |
| rhythm | the pattern of stresses and unstressed syllables in words in a line of poetry; may be regular or irregular |
| meter | a regular patern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
| foot | a unit of meter; can consist of 2 or 3 syllables |
| scansion | the process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain |
| rhymed verse | consists of a verse with end rhyme and regular meter |
| blank verse | consists of unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| free verse | consists of lines of poetry that do not have a regular rhythm and do not rhyme |
| momometer | one foot per line |
| dimeter | two feet per line |
| trimeter | three feet per line |
| tetrameter | four feet perline |
| pentameter | five feet per line |
| hexameter | six feet per line |
| heptameter | seven feet per line |
| octameter | eight feet per line |
| iambic foot | u/ - a 2 syllable foot with the stress on the second syllable; the most common foot of the english language |
| trochaic foot | /u - a 2 syllable foot with the stress on the first syllable |
| spondaic foot | // - 2 stressed syllables |
| pyrric foot | uu - 2 unstressed syllables; this type of foot is rare and is found in between other types of feet |
| anapestic foot | uu/ - 3 syllables with the stress on the last syllable |
| dactylic foot | /uu - 3 syllables with the stress on the first syllable |
| metonymy | the substitution of one word for another closely associated word |
| synecdoche | using a part of something to represent the whole thing |
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