poetry terms
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- rhymed verse
- regular meter and rhyme scheme
- imperfect rhyme
- words that have any kind of sound similarity, usually subsitution with consonace or assonance in place of perfect rhyme (slant rhyme)
- personification
- giving human like qualities that are given to an animal, object, or concept
- alliteration
- close repitition of the initial consonant sound of the word
- spondaic foot
- / /
- refrain
- repeting a line or phrase at regular places (should be able to predict where it occurs)
- foot
- basic unit of meter used in scansion either 2 or 3 syllables
- rhyme scheme
- pattern of end rhyme throughout the poem
- pentameter
- five feet per line
- dimeter
- two feet per line
- extended metaphor
- a metaphor (direct or implied) that is developed over more than one line of poetry
- 3 reasons for repitition
- emphasis on important point, easier to remember, unity or structure
- meter
- regular pattern of stressed and unstresed syllables; arranged so that there is a pattern
- implied metaphor
- the literal term is named and the figurative term is implied
- ballad
- type of poem meant to be sung, both lyrical and narrative in nature
- sound rhyme
- perfect rhyme, imperfect rhyme
- quintet
- 5 line stanza
- figurative language
- words or phases that are used to describe one things in terms of another; not meant to be taken on a literal level
- internal rhyme
- rhyme between words in the middle of the line
- dactylic foot
- / u u
- narrative
- long story told in verse, (an epic)
- heptameter
- seven feet per line
- synedoche
- using part of something to represent the whole thing
- end rhyme
- rhyming words are at the end of the lines
- symbol
- something that represents something bigger; or means more than it is
- perfect rhyme
- repitition of accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in important words
- mistaken approachs to poetry
- has to be beatiful, has to rhyme, has to have a theme
- onomatopoeia
- using words to mimic sounds
- hyperbole
- using exaggerasion for emphasis; overstatement
- anapestic foot
- u u /
- sound device
- figure of speech that pertains the way the word sounds
- repitition
- repeating a word or phrase in a poem
- couplet
- 2 line stanza
- free verse
- no meterical pattern or rhyme pattern
- rhythm
- pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line
- literary allusion
- reference to a person, place, or thing from another place piece of literature
- monometer
- one foot per line
- quatrain
- 4 line stanza
- iambic foot
- u / (most common)
- apostrophe
- addressing someone absent or dead (or not alive) as if it could reply
- blank verse
- unrhymed iambic pentameter
- octave
- 8 line stanza
- irony
- meaning the opposite of what is said (verbal irony)
- trimeter
- three feet per line
- lyric
- personal poem that uses sound devices, filled with emotion (sonnet, odes, elegies)
- stanza
- "paragraph of poem" group of consecutive lines in a poem to form a single unit
- hexameter
- six feet per line
- triplet
- 3 line stanza
- simile
- two disimilar things that are compared using the words "as", "like" "resembles"
- antithesis
- a strong contrast of words, clauses, sentences or ideas that show opposing ideas
- tetrameter
- four feet per line
- trochaic foot
- / u
- octameter
- eight feet per line
- sestet
- 6 line stanza
- metaphor
- two disimilar things that are compared without using as, like, or resembles
- direct metaphor
- literal and figurative term are both named
- paradox
- statement that is seemingly contradictory but is actually found true
- metonymy
- substitution of one word for another closely associated word
- eye rhyme
- (spelling rhyme) appears correct because of spelling but does not rhyme because of pronunciation
- 3 common sources of literary allusion
- bible, greek mythology, shakespeare
- septet
- 7 line stanza
- verse forms
- three main types of verses in poetry
- placement rhyme
- end rhyme, internal rhyme
- figures of speech
- figurative language
- assonance
- similarity of vowel sounds at close intervals
- rhyme
- likeness of sound of two words
- consonance
- repitition of middle or end consonants sounds
- poetry
- a style of writing where the author choses the best words and with figurative language, doesn't have to follow the grammar rules, to express inner emotions or convey a theme, or create picture
- types of rhyme
- perfect rhyme, imperfect rhyme, eye rhyme, end rhyme, internal rhyme
- scansion
- marking lines to find out whether they are metric or free, identifing the most common type of foot, and noting differences
- pyrrhic foot
- u u