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Literary Terms
Poetry
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English
9th Grade
12/18/2008

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Lyric Poem
Definition
a highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker. Expresses vivid thoughts and feelings
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Narrative Poem
Definition
One that tells a story
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Dramatic Poetry
Definition
a poetry that utilizes the techniques of drama. Uses techniques of drama, such as speaker and conflict, to tell a story.
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Alliteration
Definition
the repetition of initial consonant sounds.
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
the use of words that imitate sounds.
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Assonance
Definition
the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables.
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Consonance
Definition
is the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels
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Meter
Definition
the rhythm established by a poem, and it is usually dependent not only on the number of syllables in a line but also on the way those syllables are accented.
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Blank Verse
Definition
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Iambic Pentameter
Definition
A metrical pattern in poetry which consists of five iambic feet per line.
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Repetition
Definition
the use of any element of language- a sound, a word, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence-more than once.
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Rhyme Scheme
Definition
a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
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Simile
Definition
a figure of speech in which like or as is used to make a comparison between two basically unlike ideas.
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Metaphor
Definition
a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else.
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Personification
Definition
a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
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Sensory Details
Definition
is writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses.
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Connotation
Definition
an implied meaning of a word.
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Imagery
Definition
language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching
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Haiku
Definition
A style of lyric poetry borrowed from the Japanese that typically presents an intense emotion or vivid image of nature, which, traditionally, is designed to lead to a spiritual insight.
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Sonnet
Definition
a fourteen-line lyric poem
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Couplet
Definition
a style of poetry defined as a complete thought written in two lines with rhyming ends
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Quatrain
Definition
A four-line stanza.
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