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2 Poetry Concepts 46
Poetry Concepts and Literary Devices
Question | Answer |
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Assonance | Repetition of the vowel sound |
Connotation | a word that give a feeling or emotion opposite of the true word's meaing |
Denotation | The word for the literal object |
Couplet | two rhyming lines |
Heroic Couplet | A rhyming couplet in iambic pentameter |
Free Verse | A poem written without rules |
Blank Verse | Poem with rhythm but no rhyme |
Internal Rhyme | Last word rhymes with a word in that same line |
Caesura | A pause in a line of poetry |
Anaphora | Initial Words are repeated in different lines |
Synecdoche | Use a little part to represent a whole |
Oxymoron | Two WORDS put together that are opposites |
Anastrophe | Words are ordered in wrong grammar |
Apostrophe | Talking to an inanimate object |
Conceit | Extended or elaborate metaphor |
Allusion | Referring to something in the past |
Stanza | A paragraph of poetry |
Verse | Stanza in poetry |
Accent | Putting stress on a syllable |
Enjambment | A run-on poem |
Consonance | Repetitions of the consonant |
Imagery | Painting mental images with words |
Psalm | A sacred poem used in worship |