English Finals (H) literature vocab
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ChantyBabe on January 16, 2012
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9th Grade @ La Reina, 8th Graders @ La Reina
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds |
| anoaphora | same words or phrases are repated throughout the poem |
| alliteration | constant sounds repeating at the beginning of words |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds |
| assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words |
| cacophony | group of words have a harsh sound |
| euphony | when a group of words have a soft pleasing sounds |
| rythm | beats created by the sounds of the words of a poem |
| inverted word order | words of a poem are not in the usual grammatical construction |
| meter | a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllablles |
| scansion | the process of marking the metrical pattern of a poem |
| free verse poetry | does not have any repeating patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| blank verse poetry | written in lines of imabic pentameter, but does not use end rhyme |
| rhyme | words that sound alike because they share the same vowel and constanant sounds |
| exact rhyme | uses words with identical end sounds |
| internal rhyme | a word inside a line rhymes with another word at the same time |
| near rhyme | an almost rhyme |
| visual rhyme | words look like they rhyme than sound different |
| rhyme schme | pattern of end rhyme |
| simile | a comparison of two or more things using like or as |
| metaphor | a direct comparison of two unlike things |
| extended metaphor | a metaphor that goes several lines or possibly the entire length of a poem |
| symbolis | when a person, place, or thing or even that has meaning in itself also represents, or stands for something else |
| denotation | literal defenition |
| connotation | emtoional suggested defenition |
| diction | how all the words in a poem sound together once placed against eachtoher -high or formal -nutral -low or informal |
| dialect | language that reflects on a certain culture or time period |
| speaker | the narrator of the poem |
| idiom | an epression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression |
| personification | an non human thing given human like qualities |
| allusion | to refer to something |
| literary allusion | when one word of literature refers to another |
| historical allusion | when a work of literature refers to a historical event |
| biblical allusion | when a work of literature refers to a character or event in the bible |
| mood or tone | the speakers attitude that is revealed by the words she or he chooses in the story |
| imagery | language that appears to the senses of sound, touch, taste |
| hyperbole | exageration often used for emphasis |
| litotes | understatment |
| synecdoche | a part stands for whole or vis versa ex. england won the world cup...(they won more than a cup) |
| apostrophe | an absent person or an inatimate object that is spoken too as if he or she was actually there |
| stanza | a verse that is grouped together |
| form | apperence of the words on a page |
| enjambed line | a line of poetry that runs over into the next line in the poem without punctuation |
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