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Poetry terms
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English
10th Grade
03/16/2010

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Symbolism
Definition
An object represents an idea
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Metaphor
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A comparison of two unlike things without the use of like or as
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Hyperbole
Definition
an overstatement or exaggeration
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
BING BAM BOOM SPLOOSH
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imagery
Definition
a word or group of words that relate to human senses see, taste smell, feel
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Alliteration
Definition
Repetition of sounds.
Slipper snacks swallow silently
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Similie
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A comparison of two unlike objects WITH the use of like or as
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Understatement
Definition
a statement that lessons or minimizes the importantce
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Speaker
Definition
The voice used by an author to speak a poem
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Ballad
Definition
A story in poetic form. often about tragic love and usually sung
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Sonnet
Definition
14 lines the rhyme scheme is fixed
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Symbol
Definition
A person object image or word that evokes additional meaning beyong its literal signifigance
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Freeverse
Definition
no Rhyme scheme
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Rhyme
Definition
a pattern of reapeted sounds
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Personification
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something non human is given characteristics
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Allusion
Definition
a reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another
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Paradox
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a situation or statement that does seem to contradict it self but closer look it does not
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Denotation
Definition
Word defination in a dictionary
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Connotation
Definition
Emotional content of a word positive or negative
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Style
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many things enter into this: Authors use of figurative language diction sound effects and other literary device
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Oxymoron
Definition
combination of contradictory words
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Rythem
Definition
recurrences of stressed and unstressed syllables at equal intervals
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