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Allusion
a casual reference to someone or something in history or literature that creates a mental picture
Analogy
the comparison of two things by explaining one to show how it is similar to the other
Alliteration
The deliberate repetition of consonant sounds
Assonance
Deliberate repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds
Ballad
A form of verse, often a narrative and set to music
Blank Verse
Un-rhymed lines of iambic pentameter ( ten syllables with all even numbered syallables accented
Caesura
The pausing or stopping within a line of poetry caused by needed punctuation
Catharsis
A term in dramatic art that describes the "emotional cleansing" sometimes depicted in a play as occuring for one or more of its characters, as well as the same phenomenon as (as intended) part of the audience's experience.
Connotation
The associations that are connected to a word; the implied meaning of a word
Concrete Poem
A poem written in the shape of its subject
Diction
Poet's distinctive choices in vocab
Denotation
The literal definition of a word; the dictionary definition
Double Entendre
A figure of speech in which a spoken phrase that is devised to be understood in either 2 ways.Often the first (more obvious) meaning is straightforward, while the second meaning is less so:often risque, inappropriate, or ironic
Echo
Repetition of key word or idea for effect
Enjambement
The continuation of thought from one line of poetry to the next without punctuation needed at the next of the previous line(s)
Elegy
A poem of lament (extreme sorrow, such as caused by death)
Free Verse
A poem without either a rhyme or a rhyme scheme, although rhyme may be used, just without a pattern
Haiku
17 or fewer syllables through which to convey an experience
Hyperbole
Exaggeration for dramatic effect
Iambic Pentameter:
Pentameter is a simple penta, which means 5,meters.So a line of poetry written in pentameter has 5 feet,or 5 sets of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Imagery:
Words or phrases that appeal to any sense or any combination of senses.
Irony:
The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning.
Limerick:
A kind of a witty, humorous, or nonsense poem, with a strict rhyme scheme (aabba).
Metaphor:
A comparison not using as or like when one thing is said to another.
Meter:
The recurrence of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Metonymy:
The substitution of a word for one with which it is closely associated.
Onomatopoeia:
"Sounding echoing sense"; use of words resembling the sounds they mean.
Oxymoron:
A seeming contradiction in 2 words put together.
Paradox:
Seeming contradicting that surprises by its pithiness.
Personification:
Attribution of human motives or behaviors to impersonal agencies.
Sonnet:
A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter with a carefully patterned rhyme scheme.
Repetition
The repeating of words, phrases, lines or stanzas.
Rhyme Scheme
The sequence in which the rhyme occurs. The first end sound is represented as the letter "a" the second is "b", etc.
Rhyming Couplet
A pair of lines which end-rhyme expressing each one clear thought.
Rhyme
Repetition of the same sounds.
Rhythm
Internal 'feel' of beat and metre perceived when poetry is real loud.
Satire
The use of irony, sarcasm ,ridicule, or like, in exposing , denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
Simile
A comparison between two objects using specific word or comparison such as "like", "as", or "than".
Speaker
The voice in the poem.
Stanza
A grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scheme.
Theme
A topic of discourse or discussion.
Tone, Mood
Feelings or meanings conveyed in the poem.