Poetry Test Vocab
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- Onomatopoeia
- the use of words to imitate the sounds they describe; ex. buzz, crack
- Assonance
- the repetition of similar vowel sounds in a line of poetry or prose
- End Rhyme
- occurs when the two rhyming words both are indicated at the ends of their line, it can be either pure rhyme or slant rhyme; ex. "The year's at the spring, The lark's on the wing"
- Pure Rhyme
- occurs when the final sounds of two words are exactly alike, ex. glance-dance, quite-bright, delightful-insightful
- Speaker
- the voice of the poem
- Figurative language
- a form of language used in which writers and speakers convey something other that the literal meaning of their words; ex. similes, metaphors, personification
- Internal Rhyme
- occurs when one or both of the rhyming words is located at the beginning or middle of the line instead of at the end
- Rhyme
- the repetition of sounds in words usually, but not exclusively, at the end of lines of poetry
- Imagery
- descriptions that appeal to any one or combination of the five senses
- Symbol
- an object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself, usually for something abstract
- Slant (Half) Rhyme
- occurs when the final sounds of two words are very similar but not exactly alike; ex. broods-woods, chatters-waters
- Consonance
- the repetition of consonant sound; ex. add & read, mill & ball, town & burn
- Denotation
- the dictionary meaning of a word
- Alliteration
- the repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words; Ex. sad steps, gloomy as the gray sky, noble knight
- Free Verse
- poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme
- Rhythm
- the beat of words which gives poetry a musical quality
- Simile
- a figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as or as though; ex. "My love is like a red, red rose"
- Personification
- the endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with living/ human qualities; ex. "the yellow leaves flaunted their color gaily in the breeze"
- Metaphor
- a comparison between essentially unlike things without using the words similar to like or as; ex. "My love is a red, red rose"
- TPCASTT
- a method for poem analysis; Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude, Shift, Title revisited, Theme
- Connotation
- the emotional associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning
- Allusion
- a brief reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object
- Lyric poem
- a type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and the expression of feeling
- Tone
- the attitude of the writer or speaker toward the subject or audience