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Poetry
Poery vocabulary
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English
10th Grade
01/12/2009

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Lyric
Definition
A short poem
Expreses the emotions and thoght of the writer
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Sonnet
Definition
A compex 14 line poem
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Ballad
Definition
A narrative poem that tells a story
Usually about love
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Ode
Definition
A poem that expresses a lofty emotion
Celebrates events or nature,person, place, or thing
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Epic
Definition
A long poem
Is often about a leric character
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Imagery
Definition
Mental pictures based on the poets description
Using the five sences
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Simile
Definition
A comperison between to dissimular objects using "like" or "as"
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Metaphor
Definition
A direct comparison between two dissimular4 sobjects
"He when for a swim in the "Ice Cold" water
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Apostrople
Definition
A figure of speech to someone eles who is dead, absant, or to an inamanite object
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Metonymy
Definition
A figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part,
“the bottle” for “strong drink,”
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Synecdoche
Definition
Som e what like Metonymy except that a part of somthing is used to reperasent the whole thing
"Many hand make light work"
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Personification
Definition
Giving human qualitys to a non human thing
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Hyperbole
Definition
A deliberate exaggeration used to make a point
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Alliteration
Definition
The repetiton of consonent sounds at the beginning of a series of words
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Assonance
Definition
A repetition of vowels sounds in the middle of the word
"twinkle twinkle little star"
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Consonance
Definition
A repitition of conssonent sounds in the middle of words
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Dissonance
Definition
The use of harsh or unplesant sounds
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Onomatopia
Definition
The use of words that mimic the sound of the thing they describe
"Buzzing Bees"
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Oxymoron
Definition
Placing opposite words beside each other to create an effect
"Jumbo Shrimp"
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Verse
Definition
a paragraph of writing in a poem
Also called stanza
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Rhyme
Definition
When sounds match at the end of the line in poetry
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Rhytme
Definition
The pattern of sounds in a poem
Found in free verse
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Rhyme scheme
Definition
The pattern of rhyme in a poem indicated with letters of the alphebet
A,B,A,B C,D,C,D E,E
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Couplet
Definition
Two lines of poetry that rhyme
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Quatrain
Definition
Four lines of poetry that have a rhyme scheme
"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
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Sestet
Definition
Six lines of poetry that has a rhyme scheme
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Free Verse
Definition
Modern Poetry that has no regular pattern of rhythem, rhym, or line lenghth
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