Poetry Vocab
There are forty-five terms for this unit, and this unit test will be taken on Tuesday, October 23, 2007.
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- metrical poetry
- poetry that has a meter
- quatrain
- rhyming groups of four lines
- onomatopoeia
- the use of words that sounds like what they mean (snap, crackle, pop)
- tanka
- a Japanese poetic form that has five unrhymed lines and a total of thirty-one syllables
- scanning
- when you indicate stressed and unstressed words using the symbols ' (stressed) and the (unstressed)
- personification
- occurs when we attribute human qualities to a nonhuman thing or to an abstract idea
- simile
- a figure of speech that uses the word like, as, than, or resembles to compare things that seem to have little or nothing in common
- symbol
- often an ordinary object, event, person, or animal to which we have attached extraordinary meaning and significance
- internal rhyme
- rhyme that occurs within a line
- foot
- a unit consisting of at least one stressed syllable and usually one or more unstressed syllables
- end rhyme
- rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines
- dactyl
- pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable in a foot -- (excellent)
- exact rhyme
- perfect rhyme like cat/mat or verging/merging
- iamb
- pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable in a foot -- (insist)
- free verse
- poetry free from the old metric rules
- extended metaphor
- a metaphor that is extended and goes on for several lines
- imagery
- representation of anything we can see, hear, taste, touch, or smell
- anapest
- pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable in a foot -- (understand)
- stress
- emphasis given to a word or a syllable
- trochee
- pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable in a foot -- (double)
- couplet
- pair of rhyming lines
- idiom
- an expression peculiar to a particular language
- rhythm
- a melody and a texture
- spondee
- pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable in a foot -- (football)
- figurative language
- language based on some sort of comparison that is not literally true
- tone
- the attitude of the writer or the speaker toward the subject of the poem or toward the audience
- symbolic meaning
- the deeper layer of meaning suggested by a work's literal or surface meaning
- speaker
- the voice that talks directly to us in a poem; the speaker is not always the poet
- sonnet
- fourteen-line lyric poem written within very strict rules
- refrain
- whole lines or stanzas repeated at regular intervals
- figure of speech
- language shaped by the play of imagination in which one thing is compared to something that seems to be entirely different
- ballad
- song or songlike poem that tells a story
- lyric
- short poem that expresses strong feelings
- alliteration
- the repetition of consonant sounds in words that appear close together
- ambiguous
- a work of literature that allows for opposing interpretations
- public symbol
- after a quality(s) gets associated with an object, then it becomes a public symbol -- everyone knows and understands what that symbol means
- imagists
- poets that declare imagery alone -- without any elaborate metrics or stanza patterns -- can carry the full emotional message of a poem
- iambic pentameter
- a line of poetry made up of five iambs
- rhyme
- repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem
- implied metaphor
- a metaphor that is "implied"
- approximate rhyme
- occurs when sounds are similar but not exact, as in fellow/follow or mystery/mastery
- metaphor
- another kind of comparison between unlike things in which some reasonable connection is instantly revealed
- direct metaphor
- says that something is something else: not "I wandered lonely as a cloud" but "I was a lonely cloud".
- meter
- strict rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line
- connotations
- all the associations and emotions attached to a word