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Poetry
Terms for interperating poetry
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English
Undergraduate 1
04/30/2009

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Internal Rhyme
Definition
one or more rhyming words within a line
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End Rhyme
Definition
rhyming words at the ends of lines
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Approximate Rhymes
Definition
words with sound similarity
ex) seen, been
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Assonance
Definition
repetition of vowel sounds
ex) mad as a hatter
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Consonance
Definition
repetition of final consonant sounds
ex) odds and ends
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Rhyme
Definition
repetition of accented vowel sounds and any succeeding consonant sound
ex) sex, decks
fertile, turtle
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Masculine Rhyme
Definition
rhyming sounds involving only one syllable
ex) sex, decks
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Feminine Rhyme
Definition
rhyming sounds involving two or more syllables
ex) turtle, fertile
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Allusion
Definition
reference to history or previous literature
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Tone
Definition
Writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject, reader, or himself
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Alliteration
Definition
repetition of initial consonant sounds
ex) rhyme or reason
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Verbal Irony
Definition
saying the opposite of what is meant
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Sarcasm
Definition
bitter or cutting speech meant to hurt feelings
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Satire
Definition
Ridicule of human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about change
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Dramatic Irony
Definition
discrepancy between what is said and what the poem means
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Irony of Situation
Definition
discrepancy exists between actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate
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Allegory
Definition
narrative or description with a second meaning beneath the surface
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Paradox
Definition
apparent contradiction that is somehow true
ex)damn with faint praise
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Overstatement
Definition
exaggeration in the service of truth
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Understatement
Definition
saying less than is meant
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Personification
Definition
giving human characteristics to an animal, concept, or object
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Apostrophe
Definition
addressing someone dead or absent or something nonhuman as if it were present and alive and could respond
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Synecdoche/Metonymy
Definition
substitute some detail or quality of an experience for the experience itself
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Symbol
Definition
something that means more that what it is
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Figure of speech
Definition
way of saying something other than the ordinary way
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Figurative language
Definition
language using figures of speece
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Simile/Metaphor
Definition
means of comparing things that are essentially unlike
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Denotation
Definition
dictionary meaning of a word
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Connotation
Definition
The meaning beyond the actual meaning of a word
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Imagery
Definition
the representation through language of sense experience
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