Lit terms for poetry
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msalameda15 on February 1, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Speaker | the voice of the poem-may be a fictional character, an objector or the poet. |
| Tone | mood or attitude of the poem creates; often created by individual words throughout the poem. |
| Simile | a comparison between 2 unlike things using "like" or "as" |
| Metaphor | direct comparison between 2 unlike things not using "like" or "as" |
| Personification | giving human qualities to nonhuman things |
| Imagery | The formation of mental images or pictorial images, figurative descriptions |
| Alliteration | the repetition of beginning constant sounds |
| Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in a specific literary work, especially in a poem |
| Consonance | repetition of specifically consonants |
| Repetition | repeating a word or phrase |
| Rhyme Scheme | a pattern of a poem; represented by capital letters |
| Slant Rhyme | rhyme that is "close enough" |
| Meter | predictable, repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a line of poetry a regular rhythm |
| Free Verse | poetry that has no rhyme or rhythm. without a specific meter |
| Narrative | a poem that tells a story; It may contain all aspects of a typical story (plot, exposition, setting, characterization). |
| Stanza | a poetical paragraph, a group of lines set off in a poem |
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