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Poetry Terms
Question | Answer |
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alliteration | repetition of the initial consonant sounds (peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers)**alliteration is a TYPE of consonance** |
assonance | The repetition or a pattern of similar sounds, especially vowel sounds |
blank verse | Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Shakespeare wrote most of his plays in blank verse. |
consonance | The repetition of similar consonant sounds, especially at the ends of words, as in lost and past or confess and dismiss. |
denotation | the literal meaning of the word |
onomatopoeia | words that imitate the sounds they describe**boom**moo**cock a doodle do**whoosh |
enjambment | The continuation of a complete idea (a sentence or clause) from one line or couplet of a poem to the next line or couplet without a pause.“I think that I shall never see/A poem as lovely as a tree.” |
personification | giving human qualities to inanimate objects |
simile | a comparison using like or as |
stanza | a division or unit of a poem (like a paragraph or chapter) |
free verse | poetry without a regular rhyme pattern |
connotation | figurative meaning of the word |
diction | the selection of words in a literary work |
rhythm | the beat of the poem |
syntax | the order of the words in a sentence or line(think EE cummings-eddieandbill) |
tone | attitude of the writer |
iambic pentameter | •Ten syllables in each line•Five pairs of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables •The rhythm in each line sounds like: ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM |
slant rhyme | half rhyme |
consonance | repetition of consonant sounds |