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Poetry Terms
Lezark Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the beginning of two or more words of a word group with the same letter |
| allusion | a passing or casual refrence |
| antithesis | a contrast or opposition between two things |
| apostrophe | indicates the omission of one or more letters in a word |
| assonance | resemblance of sounds |
| blank verse | poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines |
| cacophony | harsh of unpleasant discordance of sounds & dissonance |
| caesura | a break usually near the middle of a verse and marked in scansion by a double vertical line |
| consonance | a resemblance in sound between two words, or an initial rhyme |
| couplet | a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhymes and are of the same length |
| diction | style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choices of words |
| didactic poem | poems that present a direct message to the reader, a bit like the 'moral' of a story |
| elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament |
| end-stopped | a feature in poetry in which the syntactic unit corresponds in length to the line |
| enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a ling, couplet, or stanza |
| extended metaphor | when a writer compares unrelated objects or idea with figurative language for more than a sentence |
| euphony | the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words |
| eye rhyme | words are spelled similarly but don't sound the same |
| figurative metaphor | a type of communication that does not use a word's strict or realistic meaning |
| free verse | open form of poetry |
| heroic couplet | set of two lines that rhyme and that is written in iambic pentameter |
| hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken seriously |
| imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language |
| irony | implies a distance between what is said and what it meant |
| internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs in the middle of lines of poetry rather than at the end |
| juxaposition | figurative language in which contrasting elements are placed side by side to highlight their differences or create a specific emotional or thematic impact |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object/action to which it is not literally applicable |
| meter | the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse |
| narrative poem | a form of poetry that is used to tell a story |
| octave | a poem of stanza of eight lines; an octet |
| onomatopoeia | the written form of a sound |
| oxymoron | a figure of speech in which clearly contradictory terms appear in conjunction |
| paradox | a statement that seems to go against itself, but may contain a basic or underlying truth when examined more closely |
| parallelism | a poetic technique where writers repeat grammatically similar words or parts of a sentence throughout a poem |
| personification | a poetic device where animals, plants, or even inanimate objects, are given human qualities |
| pun | a figure of speech that plays with the words to have multiple meanings |
| quatrain | a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes |
| rhyme | a repetition of similar sounds in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words |
| rhythm | a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound |
| satire | the art of making someone or something look ridiculous in order to embarrass, humble, or discredit its targets |
| scansion | the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm |
| sestet | six lines of poetry forming a stanza or complete poem |
| simile | a figure of speech that directly compares two things |
| slant rhyme | a type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds |
| sonnet | a poem with 14 lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes |
| stanza | a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse |
| symbol | something that is generally recognized to represent a certain idea |
| synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part of something is made to represent the thing as a whole |
| syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language |
| tercet | a group or set of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet |
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