Poetry Terms (Recall)
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- dramatic irony
- occurs when the audience or the reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
- situational irony
- occurs when there is a contrast between what would seem appropriate and what really happens, or when what we expect to happen is in fact quite contradictory to what really does take place
- verbal irony
- a writer or speaker says one thing but really means something completely different
- oxymoron
- combination of contradictory terms
- hyperbole
- grossly exaggerated statement
- understatment
- under stated
- double entendre
- intentional ambiguity, often sexual in nature
- pun
- a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings
- rhyme
- repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them; in words that are close together in a poem
- rhyme scheme
- pattern of rhymes in a poem indicated by the use of a different letter of the alphabet for each rhyme
- alliteration
- repetition of the same onsonants sounds in words that are close together in a poem, or repetition of consonant sounds that are familiar
- rhythm
- musical quality in language produed by repetition; regular or irregular determined by counting up the syllables in line
- meter
- a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
- onomatopoeia
- use of a word whose sounds imitates or suggests its meaning
- stanza
- group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit
- couplet
- two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
- explicate
- detailed report (of poem)
- connotative
- all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests
- denotative
- dictionary meaning
- diction
- a writers/speakers choice of words
- theme
- central idea of a work of literature
- tone
- attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject or a character
- syntax
- author's choice of grammar
- juxtaposition
- put two things next to each other for terms of comparison
- inversion
- reversal of the normal order of a sentence
- paradox
- seemingly self-contradictory statement that is in fact true
- persona
- speaker, voice that is talking to us in a poem
- metaphor
- figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becomes another thing without the use of the words like, as, than, or resembles
- implied metaphor
- does not tell us directly the one thing is something but rather it uses words that suggest what the nature of the comparison is
- extended metaphor
- that is extended, or developed, over several lines of writing or even throughout an entire poem; more than one metaphor on same subject
- simile
- figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using words like as, resembles, like or than
- symbol
- a person, a place, or a thing or an event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well
- personification
- special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
- Allusion
- reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science or pop culture
- metonymy
- uses something closely related to that thing to represent the whole
- synecdoche
- use part of something to represent the whole
- imagery
- sense used to paint a picture
- apostrophe
- personification of something for the purpose of addressing it
- slant rhyme
- occurs when words include sounds that are similar but not identical
- consonance
- repetition of consonant sounds
- assonance
- repetition of vowel sounds
- repetition
- recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, stanzas in a speech or piece of writing; regular
- refrain
- a repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines; organized, part of a real pattern