English 9Th Grade Poetry Vocabulary

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Alexandrine

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a line of poetry that has 12 syllables

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Alliteration

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the repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words

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Apostrophe

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words that are spoken to a person who is absent or imaginary, or to an object or abstract idea

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Assonance

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the repetition of vowel sound in a sentence or line of poetry

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Ballad

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a poem that tells a story that often has a repeated refrain

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Blank Verse

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a line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Caesura

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a natural pause or break in a line of poetry, ususally near the middle of the line

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Connotation

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the personal or emotional associations called up by a word that go beyond the word's dictionary meaning

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Antonyms

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Words that are opposite in meaning

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Consonance

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the correspondence of consonants, especially those at the end of a syllable or word, in a passage of prose or verse

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Couplet

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In a poem, a pair of lines that are the same length and usually rhyme and form a complete thought

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Denotation

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the dictionary meaning of a word

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Elegy

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a poem that laments the death of a person, or one that is written simply sad and thoughtful

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Enjambment

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the continuation of a complete idea from one line of poetry to another without a pause

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Figurative Language

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a form of language use in which writers and speakers mean something other that the literal meaning of the words they are using

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Form

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the arrangement, manner or method used to convey the content, such as free verse, couplet, limerick, haiku, sonnet, etc.

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Foot

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a set of syllables where one is stressed/accented and the others are unstressed/unaccented

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Free Verse

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Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme

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Haiku

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a Japenese poem composed of 3 unrhymed lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. Haikus often reflect on some aspect of nature.

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Homonym

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Two or more distinct words with the same pronunication and spelling, but with different meanings. (Ex: I was late to class; that guy has no class)

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Homophone

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two or more words with the same pronunciation, but with different meanings and spellings (meet & meat; their, there, they're)

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Hyperbole

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exaggeration of the truth

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Iamb

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a foot of 2 syllables, short followed by long in quantative meter or unstressed followed by stressed. ex: Come live/with me/and be/my love.

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Image

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A concrete representation of a sense, impression, a feelings or an idea

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Imagery

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Figurative language used to create particular mental images

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Lyric

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A poem, such as a sonnet or ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. A lyric poem may resemble a song in form or style.

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Metaphor

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an association of two completely different objects as being the same thing

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Meter

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The measured pattern of rythmic accents in poems

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Metonymy

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A figure of speech in which one word is substituted for another with which it is closely associated. Ex: The pen is mightier than the sword ("pen" is used for "the written word"; sword" is used for "military power)

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Onomatopoeia

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A figure of speech in which words are used to imitate sounds.(Ex: buzz, click, hiss)

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Pentameter

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A line of verse containing five syllabic feet

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Personification

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a figure of speech in which things or abstract are given human attributes

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Rhyme

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the matching of final vowel sounds or consonant sounds in two or more words

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Rhyme Scheme

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the pattern of rhyme in a stanza (ABAB; CDCDE)

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Rhythm

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the recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse

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Setting

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the time and place of a literary work that establishes the context

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Simile

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a figure of speech invoking a comparison between unlike things using "like" or "as" or "as though"

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Sonnet

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a lyric poem that is 14 lines

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Stanza

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two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem and usually the same length and follow the same pattern of meter and rhyme

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Structure

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the design or form of a literary work

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Symbol

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An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself/that stands for something beyond itself

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Synonym

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one of two words that have the same meaning or nearly the same meaning

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Tone

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The implied attitude of a writer/speaker toward the subject and characters of a work

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Trope

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a figure of speech, such as metaphor or metonymy, in which words are not used in their, literal (or actual) sense, but in a figurative snese