Murphy poetry vocab
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- form
- the type of poem i.e, Haiku, sonnet, free verse
- cacophany
- poetry that is meant to sound harsh
- metaphor
- a comparison between two seemingly unlike things (without using the words like, as than or resembles.
- lyric poetry
- Songlike poetry that expresses private, personal thoughts and emotions. This form is so common that modern readers often associate with with the term poetry itself.
- free verse
- is a form/is formless
- apostrophe
- when a speaker in a poem directly addresses an absent or dead person, god/godess, an abstract quality, or some nonhuman thing as if it were present and capable of responding
- oxymoron
- the combination of seemingly contradictory or opposing ideas or images (Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! An ecstacy of fumbling/fitting the clumsy helmets just in time," Owne).
- meter
- the repeated rhythmic pattern found in a given poem. There are a number of types: iamb (disgrace) trochee (borrow),anapest (contradict), dactyl (accurate), spondee (seaweed), and more.
- poetry
- creative writing that uses compression, figures of speech, imagery and other techniques to express strong thoughts and feelings.
- onomatopoeia
- a word whose sound mimics or suggests its meaning ("Listen! You hear the grating roar/Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling," Arnold).
- imagery
- writing that arouses the senses.
- dissonance
- the use of harsh sounds or rhythms in order to achieve an effect ("I'd awake and hear the cold spolintering, breaking," Hayden; "flak-jacketed marines/Gunpoint the crowd away," Wojahn).
- rhythm
- the regular alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables.
- litote
- understatement for effect
- paradox
- an apparent contradiction that, upon further thought, is actually true ("Her boredom is exquisite," Pound: to say one "kills somoene with kindness" ).
- criticism
- is devoted to the comparison, analysis, evaluation and interpretation of works of literature. It is subjective and debatable; it also can be positive or negative.
- epic
- a long narrative poem that tells of a great hero who embodies the values of a culture (Homer's Illiad and Odyssey; Milton's Paradise Lost).
- diction
- a writer-s or speaker's choice of words.
- alliteration
- the repetition of consonant sounds.
- euphamy
- poetry that sounds good
- assonance
- the repetition of similar vowel sounds in a poem
- rhyme
- the repetition of sounds in a poem - often at the ends of lines and in specific schemes/patterns.
- simile
- comparison using like or as.
- personification
- when a nonhuman thing is given human characteristics ("The vacuum clean sulks in the corner closet").
- hyperbole
- exaggeration for effect.
- allusion
- a reference, in a given poem, to a character, place, event, or other thing that is well known from another work of literature, or history, religion, myth, or some other field of knowledge
- speaker
- in a poem; the voice that addresses the audience.
- anastrophe
- the inversion of "normal" word order to achieve a "poetic" or distinctive effect
- iambic pentameter
- 10 syllables per line, 5 feet each, hard soft hard