La Poetry Terms

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Imagery

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The use of descriptive words and senses of the reader to create a picture

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She was inflamed like a balloon

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Pun

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A play on words

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I really wanted a camouflage shirt,but I couldn't find one.

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Onamatopoeia

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The use of words that are also a sound

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boom,crash

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Juxtaposition

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The fact of two things being seen or placed together with contrasting effect

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Penny & Leonard from the big bang theory

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Lyrical poetry

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The expression of human feelings in poetic form.It expresses the author's own mood,emotions,and reflections in musical language.

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Alliteration

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When the same letter is used consecutively at the start of two or more words

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tongue twisters

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Sonnet

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Refers to a poem of 14 iambic pentameter lines which hold to a very definite rhyme scheme

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Sonnet 18 by william shakesphere

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Blank verse

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This is unrhymed verse written in iambic pentameter

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Something there is that doesn't love a wall.That sands the frozen ground swell under it,and spills the upper boulders in the sun

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Free verse poems

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This form does not try to follow any rigid requirements or to obey conventional rules

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Red wheel barrow

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Assonance

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The repitition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences

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The raven by edgar allan poe

flitting,sitting,dreaming,seaming,streaming

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Allegory

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A symbolism device where the meaning of a greater,often absract,concept is conveyed with the aid of a more corporeal object or idea being used as an example,and extended metaphor

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The hunger games( is supposed to teach you a lesson)

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Haiku

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An ancient Japanese verse form of three unrhymed lines containing 17 syllables in all

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Euphemism

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A mild or indirect word or expression sunstituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt to something unpleasant or embarassing

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Im vertically challenged

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Allusion

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In literature,a referance to a historical person,place,event or other work

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Personification

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Giving human qualties to non-human things.

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giving tree

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Hyperbole

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An extreme exaggeration

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She is sooo fat

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Parody

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A piece of writing which achives a hunorous effect by mimicking the structure or content of a serious selection

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White and nerdy

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Limmerick

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This is a five-line,nonsense stanza of anapestic feet.The rhyme scheme is AABBA

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Simile

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a simple comparison using the words like or as

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Metaphore

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A simple comparison of two things not using the words like or as

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Paradox

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A statement that upon first seen does not make sense,but with context or further understanding,does make sense

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flanders field

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End Rhyme

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The most common form which entsils the rhyming of words at the end of lines

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Connotation

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The association's people make with words that go being the literal or dictionary definition.Many words have connotatiojs that create emotions of feelings in the reader

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Denotation

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The literal definition of a word

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Internal rhyme

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The rhyming of words which occurs within a line of poetry

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Once upon a midnight deary,while I pondered weak and weary

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Quatrain

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Four rhyming lines.Sometimes,four lines all rhyme with eachother

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Verbal irony

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When something is said,that is not th intended meaning

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Situational Irony

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When the opposite of what is expected happens

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A life guard drowning

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Dramatic Irony

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When the audience knows something that a character does not

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Horror movies

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Mood

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The feeling or response created by the author for the audience

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Couplet

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Consists of two lines of poetry that are of equal length that rhyme with eachother at the endings

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Stanza

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Seperate paragraphs or lines grouped together in a poem

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Symbolism

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When an object or person stands or represents an idea

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Theme

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The overall idea or point of the storyWhat the author wants you take away after reading