| Term | Definition |
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| dramatic | genre of a poem that presents an individuals speech or a dialogue between two people |
| speaker | the voice speaking the poem; role or voice assumed by poet in a given poem |
| simile | uses like or as in joining two images or ideas |
| personification | gives human characteristics to inanimate objects |
| oxymoron | two words conveying opposite meanings |
| narrative | genre of poetry that tells an objective story |
| tercet | a three line unit of poetry |
| epic | genre of poetry with a long story, where good fights against evil, and the hero has many adventures (The Odyssey) |
| ellipsis points | a group of three dots with spaces between them that illustrates the passage of time |
| alliteration | close repetition of the same constant sound for a certain effect |
| quatrain | a four line stanza |
| polysyndeton | repetition of conjunctions (such as and) to effect measures thought and solemnity |
| lyric | gives personal feelings/ emotions of the poet, marked by imagination, melody, and emotion which creates in the reader a unified impression |
| structure | how a poem is organized |
| stanza | a standard unit of poetry; way in which lines are grouped |
| couplet | 2 line stanza |
| blank verse | unrhymed verse |
| free verse | (Vers Libre) poems without formally recognizable meter |
| tone | the overall mood and atmosphere of a poem |
| onomatopoeia | the imitation or natural sound by word sound |
| sibilance | repetition of "s" |
| assonance | close repetition of the same vowel sound for a certain effect |
| rhyme | a matching sound or sounds |
| end rhyme | identical sounds at the end of two or more lines |
| internal rhyme | identical sounds within a line |
| slant rhyme | similar but not identical sounds |
| diction | types of words used in a poem that reveals things about the speaker of the poem |
| metaphor | an indirect linking of two images or ideas |
| symbol | an extension of metaphor which "presents us with on half of the analogy only and requires us o supply the missing part" |
| hyperbole | exaggeration or overstatement |
| repetition | repeating word or words to create emphasis rhythm, or coherence |
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