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Poetry
Literary Terms
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English
10th Grade
06/01/2008

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denotation
Definition
the dictionary meaning of a word
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connotation
Definition
what a word suggests beyond what it expresses: its overtones of meanings
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imagery
Definition
the representation through language of sense experience
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visual imagery
Definition
suggests a mental image
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auditory imagery
Definition
represents a sound
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olfactory imagery
Definition
represents a smell
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gustatory imagery
Definition
represents a taste
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tactile imagery
Definition
represens a touch such as hardness, softness, wetness, or heat and cold
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kinesthetic imagery
Definition
represents a touch
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figurative language
Definition
language using figures of speech
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metaphor
Definition
comparing things that are essentially unlike
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simile
Definition
comparing things that are essentially unlike
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personification
apostrophe
Definition
a figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, object, or concept

referring to the dead
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symbol/symbolism
Definition
a figure of speech in which something means
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paradox
Definition
a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements
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hyperbole
Definition
a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth
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understatement
Definition
a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means or of saying with less force
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irony
Definition
a situation or use of language involving some kind of incongruency or dissipency
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allusion
Definition
a reference in literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or literature
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alliteration
Definition
the repitition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of 2 or more words
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onomatopoeia
Definition
the use of words in which their pronunciation suggests their meaning
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prose
Definition
ordinary writing
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stanza
Definition
repeated units having the same number of lines, usually the same metrical pattern, and often an identical rhythm scheme
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fixed form
Definition
a traditional pattern that applies to a whole poem
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haiku
Definition
5-7-5 syllable pattern, Japanese nature poem
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limerick
Definition
a subliteray form, illustrates the fixed form in general, usually funny
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sonnet (English or Shakespearean)
Definition
must be 14 lines in length, almost always iambic pentameter, and usually around 10 syllables per line
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free verse
Definition
no rhyme, no set pattern, normal poetry
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