Poetry Terms PIB LA9
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- condensed language, usually having a musical quality and containing literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme
- Poetry
- the individual from whose perspective the poem is presented
- speaker
- the overall topic of the poem (on the surface level)
- subject
- the message about life presented in the poem, and/or the idea(s) explored in the poem
- theme
- a recurring image, word, action, idea or situation, tying into a theme
- motif
- in literature, something concrete which stands for something abstract
- symbol
- strong contrast between expectation and reality; outcome is the opposite of expectation
- irony
- tells a story
- narrative
- expresses deep emotion or observations
- lyrical
- the pattern or flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables
- rhythm
- rhyme occurring at the ends of lines, correspondence of terminal sounds
- end rhyme
- rhyme occurring in the middle of a line
- internal rhyme
- repetition of sounds (usually consonant) in beginning of words
- alliteration
- the use of words that imitate sounds associated with their meanings
- onomatopoeia
- repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables
- assonance
- repetition of consonant sounds within words
- consonance
- reoccurring words, phrases, lines, stanzas puntuation, ect.
- repetition
- similarity in order or structure
- parallesism
- pause in a line of poetry dictated by sense or natural speech rhythm (rather than meter)
- caesura
- line which ends with an end mark
- end-stop line
- the running over of meanings and grammatical structure from one line to the next without punctuation or pause
- enjambment
- repetition of identical or closely related sound combinations in the syllables of different words
- rhyme
- an imperfect rhyme, usually found where the reader expects a rhyme
- half-rhyme
- the pattern of rhymes in a stanza or poem, marked with letters of the alphabet
- rhyme scheme
- a pleasingly smooth combination of sounds
- euphony
- harshness or discordancy of sound; the opposite of euphony
- cacophony