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| blank verse | measure lines that look like poetry, but do not rhyme |
| iambic pentameter | pattern of a line with five stresses |
| simile | comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
| metaphor | comparison between two unlike things without using like or as |
| personification | giving human qualities to inanimate objects language that |
| pun | play on words |
| hyperbole | exaggeration for dramatic effect |
| apostrophe | addressing an absent or inanimate object |
| understatement | antonym of hyperbole |
| rhyming couplet | a pair of lines of the same length with end rhyme expressing one clear thought |
| paradox | a contradictory statement which can be explained as true M. |
| stanza | a group of lines which form a division of a poem |
| quatrain | a stanza with four lines |
| prose | language without rhythmic structure |
| sonnet | a 14 line poem which follows a strict rhyme scheme |
| figure of speech | a verbal expression in which words or sounds are arranged in a particular way to achieve a particular effect. |
| alliteration | the deliberate repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| assonance | deliberate repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. |
| consonance | the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, especially at the ends of words, as in lost and past |
| diction | poet’s distinctive choices in vocabulary |
| echo | repetition of key word or idea for effect |
| onomatopoeia | “sound echoing sense”; use of words resembling the sounds they mean |
| oxymoron | a seeming contradiction in two words put together |
| rhyme | repetition of sound |
| rhythm | internal ‘feel’ of beat and meter perceived when poetry is read aloud |
| tone, mood | feelings or meanings conveyed in the poem |
| accent | the prominence or emphasis given to a syllable or word |
| stress | the prominence or emphasis given to particular syllables; they stand out because of length or pitch |
