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Little List of Poetry Terms
little list of poetry terms
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11/01/2015

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allusion
Definition
a breif reference to a famous historical or literary figure
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hyperbole
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exaggeration
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metaphor
Definition
comparison using like or as
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oxymoron
Definition
a self-contradictory combination of words or smaller verbal units
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persona
Definition
the person created by the author to tell a story
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pun
Definition
play on words, two words different meanings
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simile
Definition
comparison using like or as
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alliteration
Definition
repitition of initial identical constonant sounds
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anaphora
Definition
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases clause or lines
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anastrophe
Definition
the transposition of normal word order for poetic effect,
(yoda)
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apocope
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the omission of one or more sounds from a word, sometimes indicated through the use of an apostrophe
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assonance
Definition
the same or similar vowel sounds
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consonance
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the repetition of pattern of stresses consonants
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elision
Definition
the omission of part of a word, often the final vowel before the initial vowel
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onomatopoeia
Definition
word sounds
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parallelism
Definition
a similar grammatical structure within the line or lines of poetry
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polysyndeton
Definition
the use of more coordinating conjunctions
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end rhyme
Definition
words at the end that rhyme
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eye rhyme
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words rhyming only as spelled not as pronounce
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feminine rhyme
Definition
the rhyme extends more than one syllable
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internal rhyme
Definition
rhyme within a line
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masculine rhyme
Definition
rhyme with only one syllable
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partial rhyme
Definition
the sounds are similar but not identical
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perfect (true) rhyme
Definition
the two sounds correspond exactly
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couplet
Definition
pair of lines the rhyme directly
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lyric
Definition
first person speaker expresses thoughts and feelings
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elegy
Definition
death
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end stopped
Definition
a line that has a natural pause at the end
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free verse
Definition
no rules
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enjambment
Definition
a sentence that continues into new lines without stopping
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heroic couplets
Definition
lines of iambic pentameter that rhyme in pairs
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octave
Definition
an 8 line stanza
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quatrain
Definition
4 line stanza
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ode
Definition
type of lyric that has one purpose or one theme
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refrain
Definition
a phrase repeated within poem
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sonnet
Definition
14 line stanza with iambic pentameter
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sestet
Definition
6 line stanza
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shakespearean sonnet
Definition
3 quatrains, final couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg
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