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Meyer's Poetry Terms
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English
12th Grade
01/22/2009

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Informal Diction
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Plain language everyday use; includes idioms, sayings, simple words
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Allusion
Definition
A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in a history or literature
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Imagery
Definition
Language that addresses the senses
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Implied Metaphor
Definition
More subtle, not specifically explained
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Controlling Metaphor
Definition
At work throughout the entire poem
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Synechdoche
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Figure of speech in which part of something is used to signify the whole
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Blank Verse
Definition
Unrhymed iambic pentameter (Shakespeare)
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Enjambment/Run-on Line
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When a line continues onto the next without pause
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Anaphora
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The same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines
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Rising Meter
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Iambic and anapest, unstressed to stressed
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