Poetry Vocab
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- metaphor
- compares one thing to another w/out 'like' or 'as' "Life is a barren field"
- meter
- a poetic measure; arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned or rhythmic lines or verses
- consonance
- the repitition of consonants or of a consonant pattern at the end of words "bat mit"
- onomatopoeia
- the use of words that imitate the sound they make "buzz"
- stanza
- one of the divisions of a poem, composed of 2 or more lines usually w/ a common pattern or meter
- end rhyme
- the repitition of sounds at the end of words
- assonance
- resemblance of vowel sounds "black cat"
- symbol
- something used for or regarded as representing something else (the raven = death)
- sonnet
- lyric poems of 14 lines usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter
- villanelle
- a 19-line poem, originally French, that uses only two rhymes and consists of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain. The first and third lines of the first stanza are alternately repeated as a refrain that closes the following stanzas, and are joined as a final couplet of the quatrain
- blank verse
- verse consisting of unrhymed lines
- speaker
- created narrative voice of the poem
- alliteration
- the repitition of the beginning consonant "velvet, violet lining"
- figurative language
- language that says one thing and means another
- dramatic poetry
- poetry in which the lines are spoken by one or more characters to express their thoughts/feelings
- lyric poem
- poem that expresses observations and feelings in a musical style
- personification
- gives human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea
- haiku
- poetry developed in japan, consists of 3 unrhymed lines of verse. the 1st and 3rd lines have 5 syllables, the 2nd has 7.
- extended metaphor
- a metaphor that is extended through a stanza or poem often by multiple comparisons of unlike objects or ideas
- simile
- figure of speech in which 'like' or 'as' is used to make a comparison
- free verse
- verse that doesn't follow a fixed metrical pattern
- imagery
- the descriptive language used to create mental pictures by appealing to senses
- narrative poem
- a poem that tells a story
- repetition
- repeating of sound, syllable, word, phrase, line, stanza or metrical pattern
- internal rhyme
- repitition of sounds at the end of words between a word w/in a line and another word either at the end of the same line or w/in another line
- tanka
- a japanese verse form in 5 lines
- poetry
- literary work in the metrical form; verse
- theme
- statement the poem/poet makes about its subject