Poetry Exam 1

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Allusion

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A brief reference to a person, a place, a thing, event, or an idea in history or literature

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Apostrophe

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An address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that can not comprehend

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Carpe Diem

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Latin for "seize the day"

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Connotation

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Associations and implications that go beyond a word's literal meaning and deriving from how the word has been commonly used and the associations people make with it.

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Denotation

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The dictionary meaning of a word

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Diction

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A writers choice of words, phrases, sentence structure, and figurative language

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Extended Metaphor

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A sustained comparison in which part or all of a poem consists of a series of related metaphors

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Figures of Speech

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Ways of using language that deviate from the literal, denotative meanings of words in order to suggest additional meanings or effects

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Hyperbole

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A boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true

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Image / Imagery

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A word, phrase, or figure of speech that addresses the senses. (sound, smell, taste, etc.)

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Implied Metaphor

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A more subtle comparison

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Irony

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A literary device that uses contradictory statement statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true.

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Lyric Poem

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A poem that expresses personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker

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Metaphor

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makes a comparison between two unlike things without using the works like or as

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Narrative Poem

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A poem that tells a story

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Oxymoron

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A condensed form of a paradox in which 2 contradictory words are used together (sweet sorrow)

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Persona

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A mask; speaker created by a writer to tell a story or to speak in a poem

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Paradox

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A statement that initially appears to be contradictory, but then, on closer examination turns out to make sense

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Personification

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Human Characteristics to nonhuman things

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Simile

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Opposite of metaphor; uses "like" or "as" to compare

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Symbol

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A person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond the ordinary definition. Usually more abstract than it's literal significance

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Tone

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Author's attitude toward the reader, people, places, and events

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Understatement

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Figure of speech that says less than is intended.