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Poetry Vocab
AP Lit
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Literature
11th Grade
01/25/2012

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Allegory
Definition
A narrative filledwith symbolism that implies a secondary meaning. Characters often represent moral qualities
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Alliteration
Definition
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
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Assonance
Definition
The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a line of poetry
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Ballad
Definition
A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas characterized by swift action
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Blank verse
Definition
Unrhymed iamibic pentameter
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Connotation
Definition
Associations with words or images beyond their dictionary meaning
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Couplet
Definition
A pair of rhymed lines often at the end of a poem
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Elegy
Definition
A lyric poem that commemorates the dead.
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Enjambment
Definition
A run-on line of poetry in which grammatical and logical sense carries over to the next line
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Epic
Definition
A long narritive poem about heros
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Foot
Definition
A metrical unit of stressed/unstressed syllables, and unaccented/accented pattern is an iambic foot
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Free verse
Definition
Poetry whitout regular meter or rhyme.
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Haiku
Definition
A Japanese form of poetry written in 17 syllabes divided in 5-7-5
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Lyric poem
Definition
A poem that expresses a mood or feeling
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Metaphor
Definition
A comparrison of two things with out using "like" or "as"
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Meter
Definition
The measured pattern of rhytmic accents in a poem
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Narrative poem
Definition
A poem that tells a story
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Octave
Definition
8 line stanza
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Ode
Definition
A poem in praise of a person, Place, or thing. Structure varries.
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
A word or phrase that sounds like what it is
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Quatrain
Definition
A four-line stanza in a poem
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Rhyme/Rhythm
Definition
The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words
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Sonnet
Definition
A 14-line poem in iambic pentameter
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Shakespearen
Definition
3-4line stanzas and a couplet
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Petrachan
Definition
Divided by 8/6 lines
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Stanza
Definition
A divion or uint of a poem, like the verse of a song
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Synecdoche
Definition
A part that stands for the whole
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Syntax
Definition
The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of poetry
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Understatement
Definition
Saying less than you mean; the opposite of exaggeration.
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