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figurative language
allusion |
passing reference or indirect mention
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figurative language
antithesis |
using contradictory words or ideas side by side or close together
ie. to err is human, to forgive is divine |
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figurative language
apostrophe |
figure of speech in which an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something non-human is addressed directly
ie. "Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll!" |
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figurative language
connotation |
subjective cultural and/or emotional colouration in addition to the explicit or denotative meaning of an exact word or phase
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figurative language
denoation |
the precise meaning of a word
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figurative language
hyperbole |
extravagant exaggeration
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figurative language
litotes |
understatement
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figurative language
metaphor |
a comparsion between two things that are basically dissimilar
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figurative language
simile |
figure of speech expressing similarities between objects of different kinds, using 'like' or 'as'
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figurative language
oxymoron |
combination of opposite or contradictory ideas or terms for effect
ie. living death |
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figurative language
paradox |
a statement that contradicts itself
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figurative language
personification |
giving non-human objects human characteristics
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figurative language
feminine rhyme |
rhyme that matches two or more syllables, the final unstressed
ie. yellow/fellow; pleasure/leisure; longing/yearning |
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figurative language
masculine rhyme |
rhyme that matches one syllable, stressed
ie. light/sight; report/support; arise/surprise |
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figurative language
rhyme scheme |
the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem or song
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figurative language
symbol |
an image that by convention or association represents something other than itself
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figurative language
synecdoche |
using a physical part of something to represent that something
ie. hands=sailors, wheels=cars |
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figurative language
metonymy |
using something that is not physically part of what is being spoken about to represent it
ie. "rise to the throne"; "pen mighter than the sword" |
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poetic devices
alliteration |
using the same consonant at the beinging of each stressed syllable in a line
ie. around the rock the ragged rascal ran |
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poetic devices
assonance |
the repetition of similar vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of successive words
ie. Moses supposes his toeses are roses |
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poetic devices
consonance |
the repetition of consonants or consonant patterns, especially at the end of words
ie. boost/best; fulfill; ping-pong |
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poetic devices
ononmatopoeia |
using words that imitate the sound they denote
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poetic devices
cacophony |
discordant, jarring, unharmonious language
ie. Dry clashed his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right the bare black cliff clanged around him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels - |
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poetic devices
euphony |
softer sounds, mellifluously smooth
ie. And on a sudden, lo! the level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon |
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poetic forms
ballad |
a story told through poetry, usually to music
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poetic forms
blank verse |
poem that has no rhyme but follows a regular meter, usually in iambic pentameter
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poetic forms
caesura |
end stop; a break or pause in the middle of a verse line
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poetic forms
couplet |
stanza consisting of two successive lines of a verse, usually rhymed
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poetic forms
elegy |
a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
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poetic forms
enjambment |
technique in which the sentence is carried onto the next line without pause
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poetic forms
epic |
a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
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poetic forms
epigram |
a short poem, with a clever twist or a concise and witty statement
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poetic forms
free verse |
unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
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poetic forms
idyll |
a short poem describing idealistic and rustic life, nature
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poetic forms
lyric |
a short poem of songlike quality
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poetic forms
narrative |
tells a story
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poetic forms
ode |
a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
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poetic forms
ottava rima |
a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme of abababcc
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poetic forms
pastoral |
nature poems; describing the life and manner of shepherds, etc.
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poetic forms
sonnet |
14 line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter; single theme or subject; love, death, mortality, nature, states of mind, poetry
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poetic forms
sonnet - Petrarchan or Italian |
2 parts, octave (8 lines) with sestet (6 lines), rhyme scheme abbaabbacdecde
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poetic forms
sonnet - Elizabethan or Shakespearean |
3 quatrains (4 lines) with couplet, rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg
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poetic forms
terza rima |
a three line stanza with the rhyme scheme of aba bcb cdc
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scansion and meter
iamb |
metrical unit with unstessed-stressed syllables
U / | U / | U / | |