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Poetry Terms
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English
9th Grade
02/09/2011

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Elegy or Dirge
Definition
A lament for the dead
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Lyrical Poem
Definition
Expresses and idea or image
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Mood Poem
Definition
A poem that creates an atmosphere
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Narrative Poem
Definition
A poem that tells a story
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Pastoral Poem
Definition
A poem that deals with shepherds, flocks nature, love, ect.
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Speaker or Voice
Definition
The character saying the poem
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First person
Definition
A way a poem is told- in "I" and "Me"
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Second Person
Definition
A way a poem is told- Through "You"
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Third Person
Definition
A way a poem is told- Though "He" "She" "They" ect.
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Dialogue
Definition
Conversation between characters
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Listener
Definition
The one the speakers speaks directly to, not nessesarily the audiene
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Plot
Definition
A series of events
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Setting
Definition
The general time and place that may provide context of the poem
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Occasion
Definition
A specific event to which the poem refers or responds
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Character
Definition
A person in a poem
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Tone
Definition
The Attitude of the speaker toward the subject
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Characterization
Definition
Making a character come alive
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Static Character
Definition
A character that doesn't change
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Dynamic Character
Definition
A character that changes
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Conflict
Definition
a struggle between or within characters, forces, ideas, ect.
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Rising Action
Definition
a series of events that show conflict building
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Foresshadowing
Definition
a hint of what's to come
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Flash back
Definition
a shift in time
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Climax
Definition
the turning point of the action
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Resolution
Definition
the unraveling of a plot at the end of a story/poem.
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Imagery
Definition
Words or phrases that create pictures
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Metaphor/Simile
Definition
A direct comparison of normally unlike objects
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Personification
Definition
Putting human characteristics to a non-human thing
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Symbol
Definition
Something that stands for something else
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Allusion
Definition
Reference to other sources, such as a myth, art, literature, cultural icon, ect.
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Apostrophe
Definition
Addressing a dead person, inanimate object or animal
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Dramatic Irony
Definition
A contrast between what the reader knows and what the characters don't
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Situational Irony
Definition
A contrast between the expected and the unexpected
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Verbal Irony
Definition
A contrast between what is meant and what is not meant (a lie)
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Diction
Definition
Patterns in the authors word choice
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Connotation
Definition
the emotional quality of a word
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Denotation
Definition

The dictionary definitaion

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Repetition
Definition
repeating words or phrases
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Alliteration
Definition
Repetition of initial consonants
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Onomotopoeia
Definition
Words that make the same sound as their meaning
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Internal Rhyme
Definition
two words with the same line rhyme
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External Rhyme
Definition
two words in seperate lines rhyme
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End rhyme
Definition
words at the end of the line rhyme
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Slant rhyme
Definition
words nearly rhyme
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Iambic Pentameter
Definition
ten syllables per line, alternating stressed and unstressed
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Blank Verse
Definition
Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter
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Free Verse
Definition
No metrical Pattern
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Couplet
Definition
A pair of rhymed lines
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Stanza
Definition
A division or part of the poem
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Sonnet
Definition
a poem with 14 lines
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