 | Term | Definition |
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Alliteration |
Rep of letters |
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Assonance |
Rep of vowels |
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Blank Verse |
No Rhyme but has meter |
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Cacophony |
harsh sounding |
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Cadence |
Beat , rhythm, flow |
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Iamb |
Da Dum Da Dum - last part of foot |
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Image |
What you see in poem |
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Imagery |
use of details to see picture |
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Caesura |
Pause in the line |
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Conceit |
Really long metaphor |
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Connotation |
2nd meaning of word |
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In Media Res |
starts at middle of story |
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Consonance |
Rep of Consonants |
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Controlling image |
Image in head |
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Couplet |
Two lines of poetry |
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Lyric |
doesn't tell a story |
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Dirge |
Sad poem about dead |
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Dissonance |
Harsh sounding |
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Dramatic monologue |
Speech about feelings |
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Elegy |
Sad poem |
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End-stopped line |
Line by line poem |
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Enjambment |
Run on lines |
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Epic |
Life of a hero |
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Euphony |
Sounds good |
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Foot |
One part of Poem |
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Free verse |
No rhyme/ no meter |
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Meter |
arrangement of sounds |
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Octave |
8 lines of iambic pentameter |
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Ode |
Praising something |
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Pentameter |
five feet |
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Persona |
mask or character in story |
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Quatrain |
stanza with four lines |
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Refrain |
repeated part of the poem |
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Repetition |
repeating of words |
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End Rhyme |
rhyme at end of line |
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External Rhyme |
rhyme on the outside of poem |
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Feminine Rhyme |
unstressed at end of line |
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Internal Rhyme |
rhyme within line |
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Masculine Rhyme |
stressed at end of line |
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Scansion |
analysis of poems pattern |
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Sestet |
six lined poem |
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Sonnet |
eight lines then six lines poem |
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English Sonnet |
Shakespeare ABAB CDCD EFEF GG |
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Italian Sonnet |
ABBA CDC or CDDC |
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Stanza |
part of poetry |
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Stress |
empahsis on syllable |
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Trochee |
stressed at end of word - Twinkle Twinkle Little Star |
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Volta |
turn in poem |
