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Literary/poetry terms 3
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11th Grade
01/11/2011

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Imagery
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is language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching.
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Intention
Definition
One of the four kinds of meaning, the poet's apparent purpose in writing the poem or in expressing the ideas presented in it.
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Internal Rhyme
Definition
is rhyming within a line.
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Irony
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is an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant.
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Legend
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A story of a national folk hero, which has a basis in fact but which also includes imaginative material, such as Paul Bunyon.
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Limerick
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A humorous, five line poem, usually in anapestic rhythm.
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Literal Meaning
Definition
The exact meaning of a word or phrase taken without any added exaggeration, imagination, or connotations.
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Lyric
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A short poem expressing the internam and emotional thoughts of a single speaker.
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Malapropism
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is an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, esp. by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
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Meaning
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Four aspects : the sense, the feeling, the tone, and the intention.
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Metaphor
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the comparison of two UNLIKE things
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