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Poetry Terms
Terms for the study of poetry
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8th Grade
05/04/2011

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alliteration
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repetition of the same initial consonant sound of words in a line or lines. When it occurs within words, it is called, "consonance."
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allusion
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a reference in a work of literature to a well known character, place, or situation from another work of art, lit, music, or history.
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assonance
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repetition of vowel sounds within words
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blank verse
Definition
poems written in iambic pentameter without rhyme
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consonance
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repetition of the same consonant sound
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couplet
Definition
pairing of two lines
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end-rhyme
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rhyme at the end of a line, hence, end-rhyme. :P
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end-stop
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end of a line that contains a complete sentence or phrase with regard to grammar and logic
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enjambent
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a logica, grammatical phrase is interrupted by the end of a line and continues onto the next line without pause or punctuation
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Epigraph
Definition
brief quotation or saying that is sometimes placed before the poem, located after the title
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Figurative language
Definition
Language that conveys meanings beyond the literal meaning of the words
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Form
Definition
structure of a pem, what it looks like on the page, shape, lines, stanzas, rhyme
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Free verse
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poetry without a regular meter, rhyme scheme, or stanza arrangement, no patternm no form,
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Hyperbole
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exaggeration or overstatement, that is not meant to be literal (floating on air)
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Iambic pentameter
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meter using five feet to a line, containing light stress followed by heavy stress on the second beat, 5 iambs in a line, 10 beats in the line, 5 iambs (1/2 the line are iambs)
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Imagery
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language that appeals to the senses, usuzlly when one thing is representing another.
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Internal rhyme
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rhyme within lines, not at the end of lines.
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Line break
Definition
where line ends, interruption of text by the end of a line.
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Metaphor
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a comparison between to unlike things in which one things becomes another thing, not meant to be literal. *think simile without like or as.
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Meter
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a rhythmic pattern of a line in poetry. The meter of a line is determined by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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Narrative poetry
Definition
verse that tells a story
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Personification
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special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing, or inanimate object is talked about as if it were human. (The wind whispered, death sitting with his legs crossed, doom reached out with long white gloved hands)
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Poetry
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type of compressed literature in which language, images, sound,and rhythm are combined to appeal to our emotions and imaginations/senses. It may or may not use figures of speech, rhyme, meter, and imagery. It expresses something beyond the words.
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Prose
Definition
language written in sentence/ paragraph form, anything that is not poetry.
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Prose poem
Definition
poem that looks like a prose paragraph, read like a paragraph, but it dense, and has all the elements of a POEM.
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Quatrain
Definition
grouping of four lines
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Repitition
Definition
recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas
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Rhyme scheme
Definition
pattern of end rhymes used in a poem. The scheme can be designated with letters of the alphabet, using separate letters for each rhyme.
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Rhythm
Definition
musical quality produced by the repitition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repitition of certain other sound patterns.
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Simile
Definition
A comparison between two unlike things, using words such as like, as, resembles, or than.
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Simile
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A comparison between two unlike things, using words such as like, as, resembles, or than.
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sonnet
Definition
poem of fourteen lines, traditionally using iambic pentameter and rhyme scheme. It typically uses three quatrains and a couplet(abab cdcd efef gg)
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Speaker
Definition
the voice talking in a poem, not necessarily the poet!
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Stanza
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group of consecuive lines in a poem that is separated by an extra amount of space from other groups of lines or stanzas (like paragraph in prose)
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tercet
Definition
known as a triplet, group of three lines.
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tone
Definition
attitude the writer takes towards audience (audience is important), subject, character. It may have a funnier tone, or serious tone(formal essay), personal tone(poem).
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Voice
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Author's distinctive perspective, patricular speech patterns of the speaker, who is doing the thinking, not necessarily the poet, think of perspective, do not presume! HI BETSY :D
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Prose vc. Poetry
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Different kinds of writing, prose= paragraphs/novel/story/not poetry(a piece of prose, a piece of poetry) (Poetry has m
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