Poetry Vocab 2
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- Alliteration
- The repetition of consonant sounds, at the beginning of words.
- Antonym
- Words that are opposite in meaning
- Assonance
- The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a line of poetry.
- Blank Verse
- A line of poetry in unrhymed iambic pentameter
- Connotation
- The personal associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning
- Consonance
- The repetition of consonant sounds at the end of the word
- Denotation
- The dictionary meaning of a word
- Figurative Language
- A form of language use in which writers mean something other than the literal meaning of their words
- Form
- The arrangement or method used to convey the content
- Free Verse
- Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme
- Homonym
- Two words with the same pronunciation and spelling but with different meanings
- Homophone
- Two words with the same pronunciation but with different meanings and spellings
- Iambic Pentameter
- The repetition of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable