Poetry terms
Terms
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- oxymoron
- combination of two contradicting words
- ardent
- passionate
- sonnet
- fourteen lined poem with rhyme scheme
- stanza
- a unit of poem
- symbol
- something that stands for something beyond itself
- 1952
- Rita Dove was born
- quatrain
- four-line stanza
- anapestic
- three syllables; unstressed, unstressed, stressed
- figurative meaning
- representational meaning of a word
- trochaic
- two syllables; stressed, unstressed
- apostrophe
- direct address of an inanimate object
- 1987
- Rita Dove won Pulitzer Peace Prize
- hyperbole
- exaggeration for emphasis
- elision
- getting rid of an unneeded vowel sound
- free versed
- lines with no structure
- metonymy
- a related term substituted for an idea
- closed
- structured
- falling meter
- stressed to unstressed
- imagery
- words to create a sensory experience
- couplet
- a pair of lines, usually rhymed
- Akron, Ohio
- where Rita Dove was born
- blank verse
- unrhymed iambic pentameter
- alliteration
- group of words beginning with the same consonant sound
- paradox
- seems contradicting but has truth
- 1963
- Robert Frost died
- iambic
- two syllables; unstressed, stressed
- open
- free-formed
- stress
- greater amount of pressure put on a word
- synesthesia
- blending of words from different senses
- pun
- a play on words with two or more meanings
- heroic couplet
- pair of rhymed lines in an iambic pentameter
- iambic pentameter
- rising meter with five iambic feet
- personification
- giving inanimate objects life-like qualities
- rhyme
- corresponding terminal sounds
- allusion
- reference to something beyond the poem
- irony
- contradiction of what happens and what you thought would happen
- connotation
- implied meaning of a word
- dactylic
- three syllables; stressed, unstressed, unstressed
- spondee
- two consecutive stressed syllables
- meter
- measured pattern on rhyme in a line
- simile
- comparison of two things using like or as
- metaphor
- comparison without using like or as
- March 26, 1874
- Robert Frost's birthday
- caesura
- a pause of beat
- denotation
- dictionary meaning of a word
- rising meter
- unstressed to stressed
- literal meaning
- most obvious meaning of a word
- synecdoche
- a part substituted for a whole (lend me your ears)
- Frost's first 2 collections
- A Boy's Will, North Boston
- onomatopoeia
- the use of words to describe their sound