| A | B |
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| blank verse | unrhymed pantameter |
| caesura | a speech pause occuring within a line |
| continuous form | when lines follow each other without formal grouping |
| couplet | 2 successive lines, in the same meter, linked by rhyme |
| end-stopped line | a line that ends with punctuation |
| fixed form | the form in which a peom may be catergorized by the pattern of its lines |
| free verse | poetry that is not written using strict meter or rhyme |
| foot | the basic unit used is scansion or measurement of metrical verse |
| iamb | an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one |
| iambic meter | an end-stressed 2 syllable foot |
| meter | the regular rhythmic pattern of a poem |
| pentameter | a line 10 sylllables long; five metrical feet |
| quatrain | a 4 line verse poem |
| run-on line | a line without punctuation at the end |
| sestet | thhe second division of a sonnet |
| sonnet (english/shakesspearean) | A 14-line poem |
| stanza | a block, or subsection of a poem. |
| speaker | the narrator |
| occasion | when something hapens; an event |
| paraphrase | a restatement of a poem deisgned to make its prose meaning as clear as possible |
| setting in time | when the poem takes place (hour, season, century) |
| setting in place | where the poem takes place |
| denotation | the basic dictionary definition of a word |
| connotation | what a word suggests beyond its basic defintion |
| accent | vocal prominence or emphasis given to a particular syllable |
| alliteration | 2 or more words that begin with the same sound |
| consonance | repetition of consonent sounds |
| end-rhyme | rhyme of the ending syllables of lines in a poem |
| onomatopoeia | words that imitate sounds |
| rhyme scheme : identical | the same word used to rhyme |
| rhyme scheme:perfect rhyme | same voweles, followed bythe same consonants |
| rhyme scheme:approximate rhyme | an imperfect rhyme |
| refrain | a repeated word, phrase, etc. |
| allusion | a reference to something in previos literature or history |
| extended figure/sustained figure | an image that is always present during the peom |
| imagery | the representation through language and sense experience |
| metaphor | a figure of speech which an implict comparison is made between 2 things unessentially alike |
| overstatement (hyperbole) | an exaggeration on truth |
| paradox | a staement or situationcontaining apperently contradictory or incompatible elements |
| personification | a figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept |
| simile | like a metatphor, but the words as, like, than, similar to, resembles, or seems are added |
| symbol | a figure of speech is which something means more ethan it is |
| understatement | a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or with less forse that the occasion warrants |
