Poetry
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- personification
- figures of speech to which an object or animal is spoken of as if it had human feelings, thoughts or attitudes.
- alliteration
- repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together. Although it usually occurs at the beginning of words, it can also occur within or at the end of words.
- iambic pentameter
- line of poetry that contains five iambs.
- mixed metaphor
- is the inconsistent use of two or more metaphors. It's a common problem of bad writing and are often unintentionally funny
- lyric
- poem that expresses the feelings and thoughts of the speaker rather than telling a story; it is short and imply
- dead metaphor
- is a metaphor that has been used so often that we don't realize it's a figure of speech.
- figures of speech
- a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and not meant to be understood as literally true.
- rhyme scheme
- the pattern of end rhymes.
- imagery
- language that appeals to the senses.
- free verse
- poetry that has no regular patter of rhythm or rhyme and it is generally arranged in lines.
- limerick
- is a short humurous or nonsenical poem. It has five lines and a definite rhythm (13 beats), and an a a b b a rhyme scheme
- iambic
- is a metrical foot or unit of measure, consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
- extended metaphor
- is a comparison developed over several line in a poem
- rhythm
- is a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns.
- prose poem
- is a compact and rhythmic composition written in a form of a paragraph. It uses vivid figures of speech
- onomatopoeia
- use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning
- sonnet
- fourteen line lyric poem that usually is written in iambic pentameter and has one or several rhyme schemes. THere are two kinds, the Italian sonnet and the Shakespearean sonnet. The last one has three four-line units followed by a concluding two line unit.
- rhyme
- the repitition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem. There are four classification of this.
- haiku
- most famous form of Japanese poetry. It has seventeen syllables: five in lines one and three and seven in line two
- assonance
- repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are close together in a poem.
- symbol
- is a word that stands or represents something else especially an object representing an abstraction.
- epic
- is a long poem that tells the adventures of one or more great heroes; written in a majestic style
- refrain
- repeated sound, word, phrase, line or group of lines. They are most often used to build rhythm, but they may also provide emphasis or commentary, create suspense, or help hold a work together.
- quatrain
- four line units. In the Shakespearian sonnet lines one and three and two and four. (abab cdcd)
- narrative
- is a poem that tells a story
- meter
- a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. Indicating the metrical pattern of a poem in this wayis called scanning
- simile
- comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles
- implied metaphor
- does not tell us directly that one thing is something else. Instead it uses words that suggest the nature of comparison;
- metaphor
- imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one is said to be another thin. no comparison words
- couplet
- two successive lines of poetry, especially two that rhyme and are equally long.
- stanzas
- a group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit of thought
- poetry
- a kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imagination; it is usually written in lines, It often had a regular pattern of rhythm and may have a regular rhyme scheme.
- ballad
- is a song or songlike poem that tells a story; tragedies or adventures