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Poetry Terms & Techniques
Different terms and techniques that poets use in their poems
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English
9th Grade
05/22/2008

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Alliteration
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The repetition of sounds, usually consonant sound, at the beginning of words in the same line or in successive lines
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Allusion
Definition
A reference to a presumably familiar person, object, place, event, or to a literary, historical, mythological, or biblical passage or work which the author expects will be known by his reader.
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Apostrophe
Definition
The direct address to a deceased or absent person as if that person were present, or to an animal or thing, or an abstract idea or quality as if it could understand you.
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Blank Verse
Definition
Verse without rhyme
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Caesura
Definition
a pause or sudden break in a line of poetry
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Connotation
Definition
an association or suggestion which a word calls to mind in addition to the dictionary meaning.
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Consonance
Definition
repetition of consonant sounds
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Denotation
Definition
The literal or dictionary meaning or meanings of a word
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Dialogue
Definition
A poetic device using passages of talk or conversation
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Enjambment
Definition
The running over a sentence or thought from one line to another
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Free Verse
Definition
Unrhymed poetry that does not have a definite rhyme scheme or equal line lengths.
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Image
Definition
A word or phrase that brings a picture to the readers mind.
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Internal Rhyme
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Occurs when the rhyming words appear in the same line of poetry
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Line Breaks
Definition
On what word the poet chooses to end a line
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Literal Level
Definition
Every poem has a literal message first, we need to get to the literal level before we can start considering the symbolic
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Metaphor
Definition
A figure of speech in which one thing is compared indirectly to another dissimilar thing, without the use of "like" or "as"
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Mood
Definition
The overall emotional atmosphere or feeling in a literary work
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
The use of words whose sounds imitate natural sounds. (buzz, whirr, moo, hiss)
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Personification
Definition
A figure of speech in which the writer arbitrates human qualities to animals, non human things or ideas
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Point of View
Definition
The standpoint in which the literary work is written, (1st person, 2nd person etc.)
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Repetition
Definition
The use of the same word or phrase or sentence for emphasis
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Rhyme
Definition
The repetition of two or more words reasonable close to each other in which the last vowel sound and the last consonant sound are the same
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Rhythm
Definition
In Poetry, the recurrence or repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a regular pattern or manner
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Simile
Definition
A figure of speech in which the comparison between two unlike things is expressed directly, usually by the means of "like"
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Speaker
Definition
The voice we hear in the poem
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Stanza
Definition
(couplet, triplet, quatrain, quintet, sestet, septet, octave) a group of lines which constitute a division in the poem.
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Symbol
Definition
A figure of speech, a person place or thing that stands for something other than itself.
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Theme
Definition
The central idea of a literary work.
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