Poem Vocabulary
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- alliteration
- repetition of same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together
- allusion
- reference to someone/thing thats known from culture
- atmosphere
- mood or feeling created
- asssonance
- repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words close together
- ballad
- song or poem that tells story (folk)
- blank verse
- poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
- cadence
- natural, rhythmic rise and fall of a language spoken naturally, form of meter
- conceit
- extended metaphor
- concrete poem
- poem where words arranged on page to suggest a visual representation
- consonance
- repetition of same or similar final consonant
- couplet
- two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry
- dactyl
- metric foot of three syllables where first is stressed, others arent ex. tendency
- diction
- speaker or writer is choice of words
- dramatic monologue
- poem where character speaks to one or more listeners
- elegy
- mourning, about death
- Elizabethan Sonnett
- three four lining quatrains then couplet ababb cdcd efef gg
- epic
- long narritive poem written in heightened language, reaccounts deeds of hero with societal values
- epithet
- descriptive word or phrase that is frequently used to characterize person/thing ex. the big apple
- eternal rhyme
- words not within the same line of poetry have repeated sounds
- figurative language
- word/phrase tm descrives one thing in terms of another, not literally