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11th Grade
05/21/2012

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adjective
Definition
A word that descibes something.
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Alliteration
Definition
Where words start with the same letter. gives the poem a nice patter or makes it memorable. 
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Ambiguity
Definition
Where a word/phrase has more than one meaning
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Assonance
Definition
When words share the same vowel sound but the consonants are different
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Ballad
Definition
A form of poetry that tells a story and can often be set to music.
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Blank Verse
Definition
Poetry written in iambic pentameter that doesnt ryhme.
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Caesura 
Definition
A break in the rhythm of a line, often shown with puncuation marks
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Colloquial 
Definition
Sounding like everyday spoken language
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Consonance
Definition
When words have the same consonant sounds but different vowel sounds
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Consonants
Definition
Letters that arnt vowels
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Contrast
Definition
When two things are described in a way which emphasises how different they are.
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Dialect
Definition
A variation of a language. People from different places or backgrounds might use different words
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Elegy
Definition
A poem written to mourn the death of someone.
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Emotive
Definition
Something that makes you feel a particular emotion e.g anger
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Empathy
Definition
When someone feels as if they understand what someone else is experiencing and how they feel about it
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End Stopping
Definition
finishing a line of poetry with the end of a phrase or sentence 
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Enjambment
Definition
When a sentence or phrase runs over from one line to the next 
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Euphemism
Definition
an indirect term fo something upsetting or offensive. 
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first person
Definition
when someone is talking about themselves
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form
Definition
The type of poem an its features e.g sonnet
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Free verse
Definition
poetry that doesnt rhyme and has no regular rythm
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iambic pentameter
Definition
poetry with a metre of ten syllables - five of the stressed, five unstressed. the stress falls on every other syllable
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Imagery
Definition
Language that creates a picture in the readers mind, including metaphors and similes
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Internal rhyme
Definition
When words within a single line of a poem rhyme
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Irony 
Definition
When words are used in sarcastic or comic way to imply the opposite of what they normaly mean
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Language
Definition
The choice of words used. different kinds of language has different effects on the reader
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layout
Definition
The way a piece of poetry is visually presented to the reader.
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Metaphor 
Definition
A way of describing something by saying that it is something else, to create a vivid image. 
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Metre
Definition
The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables to create rhythm in a line of poetry
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mood
Definition
The feel or atmosphere of a poem
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Narrative
Definition
writing that tells a story
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Narrator 
Definition
The vouce speaking the words that you're reading 
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
a word that sounds like the things its describing 
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oxymoron
Definition
A phrase whcih seems to contradict itself because the words have opposite meanings
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persona
Definition
A fictional character or identity adopted by a poet. Poets often create a persona so they can describe things from a different persons point of view
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Personification
Definition
A special like of metaphor where you write about something as if its a person with thoughts and feelings 
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Quatrain
Definition
a four line stanza that usually rhymes 
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rhyme scheme
Definition
a system of rhyming words in a poem e. abab
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Rhyming couplet 
Definition
a pair of lines that are next to eachother an whose final words rhyme
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rhythem
Definition
a pattern of sounds created by the arrangment of syllables
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second person
Definition
when the narrator talks directly to another person (you)
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Sibilance
Definition
repitition of 's' and 'sh' sounds 
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simile
Definition
a way of describing something by comparint it to something else usually by usuing words like 'as' or 'like' 
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sonnet
Definition

A poem that traditionally talks about love and has 14 lines

with a clear rhyme scheme

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stanza 
Definition
another word for verse
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structure
Definition
the order of ideas and events i.e how the poem begins, develops and ends
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syllable 
Definition
a single unit of wound within a word
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symbolism
Definition
when an object stands for somehing else E.g a flower could symbolise the end of a relationship
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theme
Definition
an idea or topic thats important in a piece of writting 
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Third person 
Definition
when a poem is written from someone else's point of view 'he' or 'she'
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tone
Definition
The mood or feeling of the poem suggested by the way the poet writes
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voice
Definition
the personality narrating the poem. 
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vowel
Definition
the letters 'a','e', 'i', 'o' and 'u'
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