Poetry Vocab Words, Set 1

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Alliteration

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When you repeat consonant sounds(the opposite of vowels). Most of the time it is at the beginning of the word.

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Ballad

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A narrative poem that is usually in four line sections and tells a story and is meant to be sung.

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Characterization

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The way a writer creates a believable person in fiction, using the way the character talks, acts, descriptions of the character in the Hartford, and how others see the character.

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Figurative Language

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The blanket term for the clever tricks poets and writers can use to show, rather than simply tell, in their writing.

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Foil

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The character who contrasts the main character, has opposite characteristics.

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Free Verse

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A poem that doesn't follow a certain set of rules. It doesn't have to rhyme or have a certain pattern.

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Image

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Implies a certain feeling or idea through senses like how it looks or feels. Puts a picture in a reader's mind through detail.

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Imagery

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The use of sensory details to create a strong three-dimensional portrait of a thing, setting, or person.

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Irony

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When you say something but mean the opposite, or when the reader knows something that the characters do not.

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Literal Language

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Where what is written it exactly what is meant.

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Metaphor

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A comparison between two different things without using certain words such as like or as.

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Meter

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The pattern of rhyming sounds in a poem, or stressed and unstressed syllables.

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Octave

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Any poetry stanza consisting of 8 lines. No specific pattern or rhyme has to be used. Usually at the beginning of a sonnet(type of lyric poem).

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Ode

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A somewhat long poem written for a particular subject. Can have a variety of patterns or rhymes.

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Simile

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A comparison between two different things using the words like or as.

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Stanza

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A part of a poem that repeats the same form with similar patterns. A section of a poem seperated by space.

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Blank Verse

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A type of poetry that doesn't rhyme, but has the same meter(pattern of rhyming sounds).

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Closed Form

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A poem with consistent rhyme, meter, and the length of the lines.

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Connotation

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The tone of a word, the meaning and how its used past its definition. The emotional baggage a word carries, the meaning it has developed, beyond its definition, overtime, with use.

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Convention

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A certain feature, or aspect, a regulated, or formatted element.