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Poetry Terms 1
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Term | Definition |
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Speaker | The imagined voice assumed by the poet |
diction | The author's choice of words |
denotation | The dictionary definition of a word |
connotation | other words or feelings associated with a word |
imagery | a word or phrase that appeals to the five senses |
topic | one word or short phrase that tells what the poem is about |
theme | a complete sentence that explains a truth about life or human nature |
tone | at least one adjective that describes the author's attitude toward his subject |
simile | a comparison between two things using like or as |
metaphor | a comparison between two things that does not use like or as |
personification | when human qualities and characteristics are given to non-human things or animals |
rhythm | the organization and repetition of sound patterns |
meter | the basic beat of a poem |
free verse | poetry written without a set meter or rhyme |
rhyme | the repetition of the sound at the ends of words |
approximate rhyme | words that do not have exactly the same sounds but look like they should rhyme |
rhyme scheme | a pattern of rhyming words |
end rhyme | rhyming words that are located at the end of lines |
internal rhyme | rhyming words that are located inside lines of a poem |
onomatopoeia | works that sound like what they mean |
alliteration | the repetition of the same consonant sounds in several words that are close together |
assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds found in the middle of words that do not rhyme |
refrain | a repeated line or groups of lines |