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poetry
vocab for poetry
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English
10th Grade
11/22/2010

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simile
Definition
two unlike things compared using like or as
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metaphor
Definition
two unlike things directly compared
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pure lyrics
Definition
poems of high personal and emotional qualities
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elegy
Definition
poetry that has a great variety in form, usually a death theme
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epitaph
Definition
a short elegy inscribed on a tombstone or monutment
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epigram
Definition
satrical-poking fun poem ending with a witticism
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haiku
Definition
3 lined poem 575 syllables usually about nature
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song
Definition
poetry meant to be sung
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personification
Definition
giving human qualities to an object
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literary illusions
Definition
reffering metaphorically to persons, places, and things from other literature
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hyperbole
Definition
saying more than is true; exaggeration
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irony
Definition
saying opposite of what is true
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alliteration
Definition
repition of letter sounds
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onomatopoeia
Definition
words whose sounds suggest their meaning
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end rhyme
Definition
rhyme occuring at the end of two lines of verse
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internal rhyme
Definition
similarity occuring between 2 or more words in the same line
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rhyme
Definition
similarity exsisting between words
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consonance
Definition
recurrence of the same consonant sounds
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assonance
Definition
recurrence of vowel sounds that are followed by different consoant sounds
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metonymy
Definition
substituting one word for another
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synecdoche
Definition
using part for the whole
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antithesis
Definition
using contrasts for effect
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apostrophe
Definition
speaks to some abstract object
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lyrical poetry
Definition
authors personal thoughts and feelings
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literary ballad
Definition
imiation of form, subject, matter and mood of the popular ballad
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figures of speech
Definition
expressions in which words are used in a non-literal way
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limeric
Definition
humorous, aaba, 99559
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sonnet
Definition
popular form of lyric poetry 14 lines
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pastoral
Definition
poem about country life
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poetry
Definition
expression of ideas in concentrated, imaginative, and rhythmical term
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epic poetry
Definition
long narrative
-serious subject-hero-dignified stature
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heroic epic
Definition
tells the deeds of heroes
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literary epic
Definition
imitated elements and qualities of heroic epic
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mock heroic/epic
Definition
ridicules trivial subject
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metrical romance
Definition
long tale of adventure-centrak fig-superhuman
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ballads
Definition
shorter narrative poems
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popular(folk) ballads
Definition
concise;impersonal; dramatic; refrain
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