english poetry words
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 alliteration | repitition of constant sounds of ten at the beginning of words |
| allusion | refrences to cultural, historical, geographical, of literary events, persons or facts |
| antithesis | involves a direct contrast of structually parallel word groupings, generally for the purpose of contrast |
| apostrophe | a way of addressing someone of something invisible or not ordinarily spoken to |
| connotation | overtones associated with a word, including emotions, memories, ideas, or imaginative responses |
| denotation | the dictionary definition of a word |
| trochaic | a stressed followed by an unstressed syllable |
| hyperbole | exaggeration for effect |
| imagery | words that refer to any sonsory experience |
| metaphor | an impiled comparison between two essentially inlike things |
| mood | teh atmosphere, or feeling, that the writer creates for teh reader |
| onomatopoeia | words whos sounds suggest the meaning |
| oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression |
| paradox | a statement that at first seems self-contradictory but that one feflextion makes some sense |
| personification | a kind of metaphor in which human characturistics are given to a creature, and idea or object |
| pun | play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings |
| simile | a direct comparison of two essentialy unlike things, using LIKE or AS |
| symbol | an object person place or action that stands for something else |
| free verse | poem follows no particular rhythem or rhyme |
| blank verse | unrhymed iamvic pentameter |
| rhymed verse | has definite rhyme can have any rhyme |
| rhyme scheme | the method for labeling the matching rhyme sounds at the end of lines |
| theme | the centeral thought of insight of the poem, the general point of truth about human beginings or life that the poem reveals |
| tone | the attitude a writer takes toward a subject |
| lyric | a short poem expressing the throughts and feelings of a single speaker |
| narrative | a poem that presents the voice of an imaginary character speaking directly without any additional narration by the author |
| couplet | two consecutive lines of rhymed poetry |
| foot | unit of meter; a foot can have tow or three syllables, one syllable is stressed |
| iambic pentameter | five metrical feet; each foot has an unstressed and stressed syllable |
| meter | the repitition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry |
| poet laureate | one regarded by a country or region as its best poet |
| prose | the oridnary form of writting language, appearing as sentences and paragraphs |
| quatrain | a four line stanza |
| stanza | a group of lines that form a unit of poetry |
| anapestic | two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable |
| dactylic | a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables |
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