poetry final
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- Alliteration
- Repetation of constant sounds at the beginning of words.
- allusion
- indirect reference to another liteary work/famous person.
- assonance
- repetation fo vowel sounds within non-ryming words
- consonance
- repetation of constant sounds
- ballad
- poem that tells a story and is ment to be sung or recited.
- blank verse
- unrymed poetry written in iambic pentameter.
- free verse
- poetry that doesn't contain a regular pattern of rhyme and meter.
- Denotation
- dictionary definition of a word
- Connotation
- attidues/feelings associated with a word.
- couplet
- rymed pairs of lines
- Diction
- writers/speakers choice of words and way of arranging the words in sentences.
- Meter
- regular pattern of accented/unaccented syllables in like of a poetry
- paradox
- statement that seems initially to be self-contradictory or absurd but that turns out to make sense.
- Metonymy
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subsituting the name of one thing for that of something closely associated with it.
ex: i had a bowl. - Synechdoche
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substitution of a part of a thing for the whole of which it is apart.
ex: give her a hand - rhyme scheme
- Pattern ofnd rhyme in a poem
- Stanza
- grouping of two or more lines in a pattern that is repeatted throughout a poem.
- Onomatopeia
- use of words such as pow, buzzz, -word that suggests its meaning
- imagery
- descriptive words/phrases that re-create sensory experiences for the reader.
- hyperbole
- figure of speech, where the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or for a humarous effect.
- personification
- human qualities are attributed to an object , animal or idea
- Metaphor
- figure of speech-comparison between two lines not using like or as.
- Simile
- figure of speech-comparison using like or as.
- line lengths
- shorter lines often quicken the rhythem.
- Line Endings
- lines that lack punctuation at the end and run on to the next line
- end-stopped lines
- lines w/ punctuation
- poems are usually defined by a type a meter called
- Accentual-syllabic
- accentual syllabic meter is the repetition of meterical ___ or two-three syllable units usually stressed
- Feet
- Iamb
- foot that places the accent sound second or third
- What is the most frequatnly used meter and consists of combinations of feet where the second/third beet is stresed
- IAMBIC
- Trochee
- foot in which the stress is placed first
- Trochaic meter
- inverse of iambic
- one foot
- monometer
- two feet
- dimeter
- three feet
- trimeter
- four feet
- tetrameter
- five feet
- pentameter
- 6 ft
- hexameter
- 7 feet
- heptameter
- 8 feet
- octometer