English Terminology
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- Similie
- Comparison using the words "Like" or "As"
- Metaphore
- Comparison NOT using the words "Like" or "As"
- Hyperbole
- An exaggeration for special effect
- Conceit
- An extended metaphore through the whole poem
- Apostrophe
- When the absent are addressed as if present
- Paradox
- Contradictory Statement
- Pun
- play on words
- Symbol
- Something concrete to represent something abstract
- Irony
- Difference between what is and what appears/is mean to be
- Otomatopoeia
- Words that sound like their meaning
- Assonance
- Repetition of vowel sounds
- Consonance
- repetition of consanent sounds
- Canto
- subdivision in a longer poem
- Enjambment
- A running on of a thought from one line to the next
- Lyric Poem
- Short, expressing thoughts of a single speaker
- Prose Poetry
- Poetry written in prose form using poetic devices
- Poetry
- rhythmic, compressed language using figures of speech to appeal to emotions
- Hymn
- Lyric poem or song addressed to a divine being
- Anaphora
- Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of a line
- Foot
- The smallest rhythmic unit within a line of poetry
- Iambic
- Unstressed syllable followed by stressed. Ex: U/ Return
- Trochaic
- Stressed syllable followed by unstressed. Ex: /U Yaggi
- Anapestic
- Two unstressed syllables followed by stressed. Ex: UU/ Interfere
- Dactylic
- Stressed syllable followed by two unstressed. Ex: /UU Wonderful
- Spondaic
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Two stressed or two unstressed
UU or // - Caesura
- Internal pause in a line