Literary Terms

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all of the words that poets use to create a picture in your mind

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figurative language

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a comparison of two things using "like","as","than", or "resembles"

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simile

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a derect comparison of two unlike things

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metaphor

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a metaphor that goes several lines or possibly the entire length of work

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extended metaphor

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the comparison is hinted at but not clearly stated

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implied metaphor

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idea
CAN'T touch, smell, taste, or see it

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abstract noun

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can touch, smell, taste, or see it

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concrete noun

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when a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself also represents, or stands, for something else

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symbolism

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a symbol that is recognized at different times in history and across cultures as having a main meaning

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universal symbol

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I, me, mine, we, us

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1st person

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you, yours, your

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2nd person

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he, him, his, she, her, it, they

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3rd person

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what a pronoun stands for

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antecedent

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how all the words in a poem sound once they are placed against one another

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diction

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speech that reflects the area or country and a group of people

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dialect

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speaker understands one thing but the audience or other charaters understand something different

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dramatic irony

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the character says or does one thing, but means another
(sarcasim)

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verbal irony

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action is opposite of what is expected

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situational irony

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when something unexpected occurs

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irony

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giving lifelike qualities to things that are not alive

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personification

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language that appeals to the 5 senses

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imagery

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the "narrator" of the story

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speaker

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the author of the poem

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poet

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the speaker's attitude toward the subject; revealed by the words he or she uses

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mood/tone

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exaggeration often used for emphasis

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hyperbole

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understatement
often ironic
the opposite of hyperbole

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litotes

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an expression where the literal meaning of the owrds is not the meaning of the expression; means someting other than what it actually says

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idiom
(ex. it's raining cats and dogs)

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a reference to something famous

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allusion

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refers to another work of fiction

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literary allusion

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refers to a historical event

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historical allusion

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refers to the Bible

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biblical allusion

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an absent person or inatimate object is directly spoken to as if they were present

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apostrophe

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a part stands for a whole or vice-versa

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synecdoche

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the beat created by the sounds of the words in the poem

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rythym

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the words of a poem are not in the usual grammatical construction

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inverted word order

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a pattern or stressed and unstressed syllables
(pattern is always repeated)

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meter

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the process of marking the metrical pattern of a poem

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scansion

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unit of meter

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foot

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unstressed, stressed
(foot)

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iambic

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stressed, unstressed
(foot)

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trachaic

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unstressed, unstressed, stressed
(foot)

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anapestic

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stressed, unstressed, unstressed
(foot)

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dactylic

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five feet on a line

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pentameter

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written in lines of iambic pentameter

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blank verse poetry

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no repeating patterns and no rhyme

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free verse poetry

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words sound alike

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rhyme

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uses words with identical end sounds

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exact rhyme

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(imperfect rhyme)
words share either the same vowel or consonant sound

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near rhyme

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occurs when words look like, rather than sound like, they should rhyme

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visual rhyme

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a word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line

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end rhyme

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a word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line

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internal rhyme

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a pattern of rhyme

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rhyme scheme

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a sound, word, phrase, or line repeated regularly in a poem

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refrain

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a two line stanza

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couplet

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a group of lines arranged together

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stanza

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a group of words together on one line of a poem

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line

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the appearance of the words on the page

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form

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three line stanza

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triplet

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four line stanza

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quatrain

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when a line of poetry runs over into the next line of the poem

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enjamed line

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expresses an emotion or an idea or describes a scene
(doesn't tell a story)

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lyric poem

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a poem that tells a story

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narrative poem

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a type of narrative poetry
(big scale)

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ballad

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words that imitate the sounds the name

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onomatopoeia

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the smae words or phrases are repeated throughout the poem

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anaphora

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consonant sounds repeated at the begginning of the word

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alliteration

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the repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words

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consonance

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when the vowel sounds inside words are repeated

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assonance

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occurs when a group of words has a harsh, grating sounds

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cacophony

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occurs when a group of words has a soft, pleasing sound

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euphony