poetry
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- blank verse
- end words of the lines do not rhyme. however, each line of the stanza is in the same meter. Usually written in iambic pentameter.
- alliteration
- repition of consonant sounds, most often, at the begining of words
- poetry
- imaginative writing in which language, images, sound, and rhythm combine to create a special emotional effect
- couplet
- two consecutive lines of poetry
- symbols
- an object or name that stands for something else, especially a material thing that stands for something that is not material
- triplet
- threee lines
- assonance
- repetition of similar vowel sounds in the interior of a word
- free verse
- poetry thats has irregular rhythms and line lengths usually does not rhyme and reflects rhythms of every day speech
- metaphor
- a figure of speech that compares or equates two basically different things
- onomatopoeia
- the use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes
- apostrophe
- direct address to an inanimate object, present or away
- analogy
- comparison between two different things that are alike in some way
- refrain
- in some songs and poems a line or group of lines repeated at regular intervals
- paradox
- an apparent contradiction that is somehow true on a deeper level
- oxymoron
- a combination of words that contradicts itself
- narrative
- tells a story
- run on line
- a line in which the meaning continues beyond the line
- quatrain
- four lines
- dramatic
- drama in verse from
- ode
- expresses praise; many variations of rhyme scheme, no standard length
- hyperbole
- extreme exageration
- elegy
- involves poet's thought about death
- sonnet
- lyric poemwith a single thought or emotion expressed: fixed 14 lines; abab cdcd efef gg rhyme schemes; italian or england
- simile
- uses like or as to directly compare two dissimilar things
- personification
- an animal, object, or idea given the characteristics of a human being
- lyric
- imagination, melody, and emotion
- stanza
- group of lines forming a unit in a poem. are separated by a space, often representing units of meaning
- versification
- FORM and STRUCTURE of lines and stanzas
- repetition
- the repeated use of sounds, words, phrases, or lines. stresses important items and helps unify
- poetic allegory
- symbolic story using symbols and metaphors to represent abstract ideas
- prosody
- study of verse, meters, rhymes, and general information about style
- concrete language
- specific words thats appeal to the five senses and are used to create images. This is not the same as a concrete or shape poem.