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Poetry Vocab 1 and 2
Poetry vocab from weeks one and two
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a sequence of words, usually at the beginning of a word or stressed syllable | Alliteration |
| The repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same | Assonance |
| A common type of near rhyme that consists of identical consonant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds | Consonance |
| feeling that a work is intended to create in the reader | Mood |
| The author's implicit attitude toward the reader or the people, places and events in a work as revealed by the elements of the author's style | Tone |
| The dictionary meaning of a word | Denotation |
| Associations and implications that go beyond the literal meaning of a word, which derive from how the word has been commonly used and the associations people make with it | Connotation |
| the voice used by an author to tell a story or speak a poem | Speaker |
| a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, without using "like" or "as" | Metaphor |
| A person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance | Symbol |
| A prose restatement of the central ideas of a poem, in you're own language | paraphrase |
| A generic term used to describe poetic lines compose in measured rhythmical pattern, that are often, but not necessarily,rhymed | Verse |
| The central meaning or dominant idea in a literary word | Theme |
| a brief poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker | Lyric Poem |
| A poem that tells a story | Narrative poem |
| A long narrative poem, told in a formal, elevated style, that focuses on a serious subject and chronicles heroic deeds and events important to a culture or nation | Epic poem |
| A writer's choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, and figurative language, which combine to help create meaning | Diction |
| the way poets sometimes employ elevated diction that deviates significantly from the common speech and writing of their time, choosing words for their supposedly inherent poetic qualities | Poetic Diction |
| dignified, impersonal, and elevated use of language that follows syntax exactly and is often characterized by complex words and lofty tone | Formal Diction |
| Maintains correct language; less elevated than formal diction; reflects the way most educated people speak | Middle Diction |
| plain, everyday language including idiomatic expressions, slang, contraction, and many simple common words | Informal Diction |
| a word or phrase that is informal or literary; used in ordinary conversation | colloquialism |
| A type of informal diction spoken by definable groups of people | Dialect |
| special words or expressions used by a particular profession or group that are difficult for others to understand | Jargon |
| a speaker created by a writer to tell a story or speak in a poem | Persona |
| allows for two or more simultaneous interpretation of a word, phrase, action, or situation, all of which can be supported by the context of a work | Ambiguity |
| the ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses, and sentences; often manipulated by poets to emphasize specific words | Syntax |
| A type of lyric poem in which a character (the speaker) addresses a distinct but silent audience imagined to be present in the poem in such a way as to reveal a dramatic situation, and, often unintentionally, some aspect of his/her personality | Dramatic Monologue |
| "seize the day"; common literary theme, especially in lyric poetry that emphasizes that life is short and one should make the most of present pleasures | Carpe Diem |
| A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature; Implies reading and cultural experiences shared by the writer and reader | Allusion |
| a word, phrase, or figure of speech that addresses the senses suggesting mental pictures of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, or actions; convey emotions and moods | Image |
| a grouping of lines, set off by a space, that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme | Stanza |
| Ways of using language that deviate from the literal, denotative meanings of words in order to suggest additional meanings or effects; say one thing in terms of something else | Figures of Speech |
| a common figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two things using words such as like, as, than appears, and seems | Simile |
| a subtle comparison; the terms being compared are not so specifically explained | Implied Metaphor |
| a sustained comparison in which part or all of a poem consists of a series of related metaphors | Extended Metaphor |
| metaphor that runs through an entire work and determines the form or nature of that work | Controlling Metaphor |
| a play on words that relies on a word's having more than one meaning or sounding like another word | Pun |
| a kind of metaphor in which a part of something is used to signify the whole | Synecdoche |
| a type of metaphor in which something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it | Metonymy |
| a form of metaphor in which human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things | Personification |
| an address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend; provides the speaker with the opportunity to think aloud | Apostrophe |
| a boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true; used for serious, comic, or ironic effect | Overstatement/ Hyperbole |
| opposite of hyperbole; says less than is intended; usually has an ironic effect, and sometimes used for a comical purpose | Understatement |
| ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary | Litote |
| a statement that initially appears to be contradictory but then, on closer inspection, turns out to make sense; arrests reader's attention | Paradox |
| a condensed form of paradox in which two contradictory words are sued together | Oxymoron |
| have meaning that are widely recognized by a society or culture | Conventional Symbol |
| a setting, character, action, object, name, or anything else in a work that maintains its literal significance while suggesting other meanings | Literary/ Contextual Symbol |
| A narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning because its events, actions, characters, settings, and object represent specific abstractions or ideas; emphasis is on what elements actually mean | Allegory |
| poetry designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religious lesson | Didactic Poetry |
| uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true | Irony |
| creates a discrepancy between what the character believes or says and what the reader/ audience knows to be true | Dramatic Irony |
| incongruity between what is expected to happen and what actually happens due to forces beyond human comprehension/ control | Situational Irony |
| occurs when a person says one thing but means the opposite | Verbal Irony |
| when a writer uses God, destiny, or fate to dash the hopes and expectations of a character or human kind; a discrepancy between what a character aspires to and what universal forces provide | Cosmic Irony |
| ridiculing a folly or vice in order to expose or correct it | Satire |
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