English Comp II Vocab #3
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- ALLIGORY
- When something referred to in the story is referring to something bigger
- ALLITERATION
- The repetition of two or more consonant sounds in successive words in a line of verse or prose
- ALLUSION
- A brief(and sometimes indirect) reference in a text to a person, place or thing-fictitious or actual outside of the story or play
- APOSTROPHE
- A direct address to someone or something that is inanimate - object or dead person
- ASSONANCE
- The repetition of two or more vowel sounds in successive words, which creates a kind of rhyme
- BALLAD
- A song that tells a story
- BLANK VERSE
- The most common and well-known meter of UNRHYMED poetry in English
- CONCEIT
- A poetic device using ELABORATE COMPARISONS, such as equating a loved one with the graces and beauties of the world
- CONNOTATION
- An association or additional meaning that a word, image or phrase may carry, apart from it's literal denotation or dictionary definition
- CONSONANCE
- Also called a SLANT RHYME. A kind of rhyme in which th linked words share similar consonant sounds but different vowel sounds, as in reason and raisin
- COUPLET
- A two-line stanza in poetry, usually rhymed, which tends to have lines of equal length
- DENOTATION
- The literal, dictionary meaning of a word
- DOGGEREL
- Verse full of irregularities often due to the poet's incompetence. Crude verse that brims with cliche, obvious rhyme and inept rhythm
- DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
- A poem written as a speech made by a character at some decisive moment
- ELEGY
- written on the occasion of a death or other solemn theme
- END RHYME
- Rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines, rather than within them
- EPIC
- A long narrative poem usually tracing the adventures of a legendary or mythic hero
- EXPLICATION
- Literally, an "unfolding". In an explication an entire poem is explained in detail
- FIGURE OF SPEECH
- An expression or comparison that relies not on its literal meaning, but rather on its connotations and suggestions
- FOOT
- The unit of measurement in metrical poetry
- FREE VERSE
- Describes poetry that organizes its lines without meter
- HAIKU
- A Japanese verse form that has three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables
- LIMERICK
- A short and usually comic verse form of five anapestic lines usually rhyming aabba
- METER
- A recurrent, regular, rhythmic pattern in verse. The basic organizational device for world poetry
- METAPHOR
- Comparison of two unlike things without using like or as
- METONYMY
- Figure of speech in which the name of a thing is substituted for that of another closely associated with it
- PARADOX
- A statement that at first strikes one as self-contradictory, but that on reflection reveals some deeper sense
- PERSONIFICATION
- A figure of speech in which a thing, an animal, or an abstract term is endowed with human characteristics
- SONNET
- The fixed form of 14 lines. A traditional and widely used verse form, especially popular for love poetry
- SLANT RHYME
- A rhyme in which the final consonant sounds are the same but the vowel sounds are different, as in letter and litter
- SYMBOL
- A person, place, or thing in a narrative that suggests meanings beyond its literal sense
- VERSE
- It refers to any single line of poetry
- HYPERBOLE
- Overstatement or exaggeration used to emphasize a point
- REFRAIN
- Repeated lines of poem or song i.e. chorus
- SYNECDOCHE
- The use of a small part for the hole item i.e. wheels = car
- VILLANELLE
- Six rhymed stanzas in which two lines are repeated in a prescribed pattern
- QUATRAIN
- A stanza consisting of four lines
- ONOMATOPOEIA
- A sound associated with a word