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Vocabulary List 8
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10th Grade
05/10/2011

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ALLUSION
Definition
a reference to a statement, person,place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics , or some other field of knowledge
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ALLITERATION
Definition
the repition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another
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ANAPEST
Definition
a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter, as in for the nonce.
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ASSONANCE
Definition
the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together.
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BALLAD
Definition
a song or songlike poem, often form the oral tradition that tells a story.
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BLANK VERSE
Definition
poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
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CONNOTATION
Definition
all the meanins, associations, or emothions that a word suggests.
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CONSONANCE
Definition
the repitition of final consonant sounds after different vowel sounds
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COUPLET
Definition
two consecutive line of poetry that rhyme
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DACTYL
Definition
a foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short in quantitative meter, or one stressed followed by two unstressed in accentual meter
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DENOTATION
Definition
the literal, dictionary definition of a word
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DICTION
Definition
a writer's or speakers choice of words
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ELEGY
Definition
a poem that mourns the death of a person or laments something lost
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EPIC
Definition
a long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-thanlife hero who embodies the values of a particular society
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Definition
a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level
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FOOT
Definition
a group of syllables constituting a metrical unit of a verse.
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FREE VERSE
Definition
poetry that has no regular meter or ryhme scheme
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HAIKU
Definition
a brief, unrhymed, three-line poem developed in Japan in the 1600s
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HYPERBOLE
Definition
a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express a strong sentiment or create a comic effect
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IAMBIC
Definition
a metrical foot or unit of measure consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
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IAMBIC PENTAMETER
Definition
a line of poetry made up of five iambs
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IMAGE
Definition
form; appearance; semblance
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IMAGERY
Definition
language that appeals to the senses
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IRONY
Definition
a contrast between expectations and reality- between what is said and what is meant
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LIMERICK
Definition
a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet.
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LYRIC POEM
Definition
poetry that focuses on expressing private emotions or thoughts
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DIRECT METAPHOR
Definition
states that one thing is another
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EXTENDED METAPHOR
Definition
a metaphor that is developed over several lines writing or even through an entire poem or paragraph
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IMPLIED METAPHOR
Definition
metaphor that compares two things without being obvious
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METER
Definition
a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
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NARRATIVE POEM
Definition
any work of literature, written or oral, that tells a story
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OCTAVE
Definition
an eight-line stanza or poem or the first eight lines of an italian, or petrarchan sonnet
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ODE
Definition
a complex, generally lengthy lyric poem on a serious subject
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ONOMATOPOEIA
Definition
the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning
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PERSONA
Definition
the narrator of or a character in a literary work, sometimes identified with the author.
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PERSONIFICATION
Definition
a kind of literature that depicts rustic life in idealized terms
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QUATRAIN
Definition
a four-line stanza or poem, or a group of four lines unified by a rhyme scheme
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REFRAIN
Definition
a repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines
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APPROXIMATE RHYME
Definition
half rhymes, slant rhymes or imperfect rhymes
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EXACT RHYME
Definition
when the later part of the word or phrase is identical sounding to that of another
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END RHYME
Definition
occur at the end of lines
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INTERNAL RHYME
Definition
occur within lines
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HALF RHYME
Definition
consonance on the final consonants of the words involved
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OFF RHYME
Definition
often using assonance or consonance only
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SLANT OR IMPERFECT RHYME
Definition
when vowel sounds rhyme, but the words do not
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RHYME SCHEME
Definition
the pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences
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RHYTHM
Definition
the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language
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RUN-ON LINE
Definition
the use of run-on lines to complete a thought from one line of verse to the next
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SESTET
Definition
a six-line stanza or poem or the last six lines of an Italian, or Petrarchan, sonnet.
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SESTINA
Definition
a poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, but in different order, the envoy using the six words again, three in the middle of the lines and three at the end.
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SIMILE
Definition
a figure of speech that make comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word such as like, as, than, or resembles
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SONNET
Definition
a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has one of several traditional rhyme schemes
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SHAKESPEREAN OR ENGLISH SONNET
Definition
The couplet has the rhyme scheme gg
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PETRARCHAN OR ITALIAN SONNET
Definition
a verse form that typically refers to a concept of unattainable love
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SPONDEE
Definition
a foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter.
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STANZA
Definition
a group of lines in a poem that forms a single unit
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STYLE
Definition
the unique manner in which writers use language to express their ideas
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SYMBOL
Definition
a person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself
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TERCET
Definition
a triplet, or stanza of three lines, in which each line ends with the same rhyme
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THEME
Definition
the central idea or insight of a work of literature
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TITLE
Definition
the distinguishing name of a book, poem, picture, piece of music, or the like.
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TONE
Definition
the a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character
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TROCHEE
Definition
a foot of two syllables, a long followed by a short in quantitative meter, or a stressed followed by an unstressed in accentual meter
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