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Repetition of consonant sounds, the repetition of 2 or more consonants sounds
in successive words in a line of verse or prose; a word group with the same
letter
Alliteration
A metrical foot co
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Helpful Answers test 2
Repetition of consonant sounds, the repetition of 2 or more consonants sounds
in successive words in a line of verse or prose; a word group with the same
letter
Alliteration
A metrical foot consisting of 2 unaccented syllables followed by one accented
syllable
Anapest
Words, phrases, clauses or sentences set in deliberate contrast to one another
Anthithesis
Also referred to as a slant or near rhyme, these rhymes share sound qualities or
sounds within words
Approximate rhyme
Repetition of vowel sounds; the repetition of 2 or more vowels sounds in
successive words, which creates a king of rhyme; a pattern of identical or similar
vowel sounds, usually in stressed syllables of words with different end sounds
Assonance
A direct address to someone of something even to an inanimate object. In
poetry an apostrophe often addresses something not ordinarily spoken to ; an
address either to a person who is dead or not present, to an inanimate object or
abstract concept, designed in part to provide insight into the character’s
thoughts
ApostropheUnacknowledged references – authors assume that readers will recognized and
relate meaning to new context; a mention or reference of something either
directly or by implication; a reference often to a historical figure, myth or
artwork that exists outside literary work
Allusion
Also referred to as a slant or near rhyme, these rhymes share sound qualities or
sounds within words
Approximately rhyme
A narrative poem meant to be sung; a simple short poem of folk origin,
composed in short stanzas and usually sung
Ballad
Unrhymed lines; the most common and well known meter of unrhymed poetry
in English…almost conversational in sound. Contains five iambic feet per line
and is never rhymed; unrhymed verse written in iambic pentameter
Blank verse
A pause within a line or verse
Caesura
One that expresses a tone of "living for the day"; seize the day, latin origin
Carpe diem poemTwo rhymed lines; two successive lines of poetry of the same metrical length,
usually rhyming that form a complete unit
Couplet
A pleasant combination of sounds, also the repetition of consonants or group of
consonants, particularly at the ends of words
Consonance
An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary
meaning; implied or figurative meaning that a word or image carries, as distinct
from its literal or explicit meaning.
Connotation
A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllables followed by two unaccented
syllables
dactyl
The literal or explicit meaning that a word or image carries as distinct from its
implied or figurative meaning. Dictionary definitions are usually denotative
Denotation
The style of speaking as dependent on choice of words; style of speaking or
writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer
Diction14 lines of iambic pentameter, usually divided into 3 quatrains followed by a
couplet, with the rhyme scheme of abababcdcdefefgg
English sonnet
A poem that celebrates the achievements of mighty heroes and heroines
Epic
Rhyme occurring in the final word or syllables of 2 or more lines of poetry
End rhyme
Words that appeal to the senses and create a mental picture; its basic function
is to present the physical world to experience in our imagination
Imagery
Words, expression that conform to a particular pattern or form, such as
metaphor, simile, parallelism
Figurative language
In poetry, the means of measuring a meter, a foot has either 2 or 3 syllables
with varying accents
Foot
Has no prescribed form or meter
Free verseSweet, sour, bland, tangy, taste
Gustatory image
A technique that reveals a discrepancy between what appears to be and what is
actually true (the opposite of what the reader expects to happen)
Irony
A 3-line poem with a total of 17 syllables (5 in the first, 7 in the middle, 5 in the
last)
Haiku
An exaggeration; exaggerated statement or claims not meant to be taken
literally; an overstatement used to express a point
Hyperbole
A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one accented
syllable
Iamb
a line of poetry consisting of 5 iambic feet
iambic pentameter
Lang. That triggers memories based on sights, sounds, tastes, smell and
sensations of touch; in poetic writing the stress may be expressly on the image
that is being described or envisoned
imagerywithin the lines of a poem, words will rhyme, affecting the ear more than the
rhythm as does a rhyme at the end of a line
internal rhyme
14 lines of iambic pentameter, usually divided in an octet with the rhyme
scheme of abbaabba followed by a sestet with rhyming schemes of either
cdcdcd or cdecde
Italian sonnet
Feel, warm, sharp, peaceful
Kinetic image
Brief not developed story; word to the dead, sonnet
Lyrical poem
A comparison of two unlike objects; comparing 2 unlike things…symbol or
emblem; figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden
comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common
characteristics; a figure of speech not meant to be factually true, in which one
thing is compared or substituted for something else
Metaphor
A figure of speech which substitutes the name of one thing with that of another
with which is closely associated with in common experience
MetonymyA pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables; a regular, recurring rhythm or
patter or stresses and pauses, in lines of verse
Meter
Tells a story – a poem that tells a story and has a plot, romance poem at times
Narrative poem
A poem intended to a sung; a lyric poem in the form of an address to particular
subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied of irregular
meter.
Ode
The attempt to label a thing by forming a word from sounds associated with it
Onomatopoeia
A condensed paradox combining 2 contradictory terms, such as bittersweet
Oxymoron
6 line stanza
Octave
A statement or expression playing on words that initially seems self contractor,
but which provokes deep reflection on ways or contexts in which it might seem
valid
ParadoxHuman qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas; the attribution of human
characteristics to an inanimate object
Personification
5 iambic feet
Pentameter
Condensed art form that concentrates meaning and distills feelings, began as
tribal voice, cultures handed it down, like old music, rhythm was easy to
remember. Poetry reflects social consciousness of cult
Poetry and brief history
A kind of word play that depends upon identical or similar sounds amount
words with different meanings
Pun
4 line stanza
quatrain
Used to create memorable words and phrases
Repetition
The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds
RhythmConcurrence of similar or identical sounds within different words
Rhyme
6 line stanza
Sestet
The process of determining a poem’s rhythmic patters through recognition of
stressed and unstressed syllables
Scansion
A comparison of two unlike objects using key words "like" or "as"; figure of
speech that compares to similar uses like or as
Simile
A fixed verse of 14 lines written in iambic pentameter
Sonnet
The person who is the voice of the poem
Speaker
Poetric unit made of lines grouped together by rhyme and/or meter;
arrangement of a certain number of lines; basic unit of a poem typically
comprised of 2 or more lines
StanzaSomething used to represent something else; suggests more than the literal
meaning; the practice or art of using an object or a word to represent an
abstract idea
Symbol
A figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole or the whole signifies the
whole or the whole signifies the part
synecdoch
A statement about the subject
Theme
Communication strong anti war opinions, that it is foolish, brutal, meaningless,
where there can be no winders
Trench poets
A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllables followed by one unaccented
syllable
Trochee
The poem's attitude or feelings toward the theme
Tone
Deals with speaker and tone, represents writers subject of the matter
voice"Poetry"
Marianne Moore
The author of her book
Anne Bradstreet
"London"; "Sick Rose"; "Chimney Sweeper"; "The mind-forged manacles I hear";
"Has found on thy bed / Of crimson joy"
William Blake
"How Do I Love Thee?"; "I shall but love thee better after death"
Elizabeth Browning
"Annabel Lee"
Edgar Allan Poe
"Woodchucks"
Maxine Kumin
"Road Not Taken", "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening"; "I took the
one less traveled by / And that has made all the difference"; Birches
Robert Frost
"Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day"
William ShakespeareShe Walks in Beauty
Lord Byron
Edwin Robinson
Richard Cory
To the Virgins
Robert Herrick
Lady Lazarus; Mirror
Sylvia Plath
"To His Coy Mistress"
Andrew Marvell
"Red Red Rose"; "Love is like a red red rose / That's newly sprung in June"; "And
I will come again, my Luve, / Tho' 'twere ten thousand mile!"
Robert Burns
"But at my back I always hear / Time's winged chariot hurrying near"
Andrew Marvell"If only they'd all consented to die unseen / gassed underground the quiet Nazi
way"
Maxine Kumin
"My little horse must think it queer / To stop without a farmhouse near"
Robert Frost
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways"
Elizabeth Browning
"And be one traveler, long I stood / And looked down one as far as I could"
Robert Frost
"Next morning they turned up again, no worse / for the cyanide than we for our
cigarettes"
Maxine Kumin
"Love you ten years before the Flood; / And you should, if you please, refuse /
Till the conversion of the Jews."; "And your quaint honour turn to dust, / And
into ashes all my lust"; "The grave's a fine and private place, / But none I think
do there embrace"
Andrew Marvell
"And the hapless soldier's sigh / Runs in blood down Palace walls"
William Blake"And having perhaps the better claim, / Because it was grassy and wanted
wear;"; "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep, /
And miles to go before I sleep,"
Robert Frost
"I, a lapsed pacifist fallen from grace / puffed with Darwinian pieties for killing,"
Maxine Kumin
The Cross
Langston Hughes
subject
person/thing that is being discussed, described or dealt with.
theme
subject of a talk/piece of writing, person's thoughts, or topic
speaker
person who speaks formally before an audience/person in a poem or story who
is narrating
tone
attitude of a writer towards a subject or an audience
lyric
having the form/musical quality of a song.narrative
spoken/written account of connected events/story
dramatic monologue
a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person/speaker
inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular
situation or series of events
ballad
poem typically arranged in the quatrains with rhyme scheme ABAB
quatrain
verse/poem with four lines that has an independent and separate theme
stanza
four or more lines having a fixed length, meter or rhyme scheme
couplet
two successive rhyming lines(same meter) in a verse that come together to form
a complete thought.
image/imagery: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory (smell), gustatory
word/phrase in a literary work that appeals directly to reader's taste, touch,
hearing or smell; using figurative language to represent objects, actions and
ideas in a way to appeal to our physical sensessimilie
like or as (yass u know this i'm not writing a definition)
sight rhyme
agreement in spelling but not in sound of the ends of words in poems (words
that look like they rhyme but they actually don't, like have and grave)
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