eniglish poetry vocab
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DomoGirRawr on November 29, 2011
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all vocabulary in english for poetry
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 poetry | a major type o f literature it features imajinitiveand musical lanuguagecarefully chosen and arrangedcommunicate expirances thoughts or emotions |
| line | a single row of words |
| stanzaz | made up of lines in the same waythat paragraphs are made up of sentences |
| lyric | a poem expressedof the emotions of the poems speaker |
| speaker | narrator |
| narrartive | poetry tells a story and is frequently longer than lyric poetry |
| figurtive language | a thing written or spokenthat is not m3ent to be tooken litterally |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken or writtenabout as if it were another |
| simile | compares one thing to aanother but it uses the words like or as |
| hyperbole | an exageration used for effector to make a point |
| personification | a figure of speech in which something not human is described as human |
| image | a concrete representation of an objector are expirament |
| imagry | when considered together the matirally work are referred |
| sound device | only ?????? that apeals to the readers ear |
| ryme | the repititionof sounds at the ends of words |
| rythem | the pattern of beats or stress syllables inn a line of poetry |
| meter | if the pattern is regular |
| alliteration | the repitionof conso????sound at the beginning of words |
| symbol | a rthing that stands for ittself or something erlse |
| sonnet | a 14 line poem that ususally explores the theme of romantic love |
| haiku | short three line poem that describes a single line image or scene from nature |
| concrete poem | a poem that is shaped liike the thing it describes |
| free verse | does not use consistant rymes or ryt6hems |
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