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Harrison Poetry Term
Harrison Poetry Terms 8
Question | Answer |
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Shakespearean Sonnet | 14 lines, iambic pentameter, abab/cdcd/efef/gg |
narrative | tells story |
ballad | narrative based on adventure, romance, dramatic event |
lyric poetry | personal thoughts and feelings |
stanza | like a paragraph of prose |
imagery | descriptive detail appealing to the senses |
figurative language | comparisons not to be taken literally |
symbol | stands for something beyond itself |
couplet | pair of rhyming lines |
ode | exalted verse celebrating an object or idea |
elegy | formally memorializes a person or reflects on a serious subject |
epic | narrative, appeals to a muse, then begins in medias res |
concrete | the shape of the poem relates visually to the subject |
repetition | word, phrase, for emphasis |
alliteration | repetition of consonants |
simile | obvious comparison using "like", "as", "than", or similar connector |
metaphor | comparing by stating one thing IS the other thing |
personification | something non human is given human or living characteristics |