Quizlet Poetry Vocab 2

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  1. metaphor: a direct comparision between two unlike things
  2. narrative poem: lines and stanzas that tell a story
  3. octave: a group of eight lines of poetry
  4. onomatopoeia: the use of a word whose sound reflects its meaning
  5. oxymoron: two words together containing contradictory meanings
  6. paradox: a statement that contains contradiction, or opposite ideas
  7. parallelism: repetition of grammatical constructions to express related ideas of equal importance
  8. parody: humorous imitation of a well known work of art or literature
  9. personification: a figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to a nonhuman
  10. poetry: language arranged in lines and stanzas; the opposite of prose
  11. pun: a humorous play on words (usually based upon a word with multiple meaninngs)
  12. quatrain: a group of four lines of poetry
  13. rhyme scheme: the pattern of repetition of same sounds at the ends of lines
  14. rhythm: the pattern or beat of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
  15. sestet: a group of six lines of poetry
  16. simile: indirect (using like,as, such) comparison between two unlike things
  17. sonnet: a fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter
  18. stanza: a group of lines that forms a unit of poetry; comparable to a paragraph in prose
  19. understatement: technique of emphasizing by saying less than is literally true; oppostite of hyberbole
  20. voice: unique use of language that allows a reader to "hear" the particular personality of a character, speaker, or author