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Poetry Terms
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English
9th Grade
01/16/2012

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Lyric
Definition
A short songlike poem, telling something that happened
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Narrative Poem
Definition
a poem whose main purpose is to tell a story.
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Satiric Poem
Definition
a kind of comic poetry that conveys a message
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Diction
Definition
choice of words and/or grammatical constructions
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Tone
Definition
The attitude of the author
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Paradox
Definition
an apparent contradiction. ("He who would save his life must lose it" or "The child is father of the man.")
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Rhythm
Definition
stresses at regular intervals
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Meter
Definition
a pattern of stressed (accented) sounds in English poetry
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
the use of words that imitate sounds
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Blank verse
Definition
English poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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