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| Metaphor | comparison between two unrelated nouns one of most important poetic elements |
| Extended Metaphor | used to provide structure for expanding thoughts and speech |
| Simile | comparison between two unlike nouns using like or as to bridge the connection |
| Adjectives | extend similes and give them a musical quality; also gives qualities, defines, or limits a noun or pronoun |
| Personification | the assigning of human traits to things, colors, qualities and ideas |
| 5 ways of presonification | verbs naming human actions; adj's used to describe humans; use personal pronuons; human body parts; construct a personality |
| To Create Imagery | use; action verbs; write with close detail and attention |
| helping/auxiliary; linking verbs | tell rather than show no good |
| linking verb examples | am; is; are; was; were; will be; can be; may be; has been; have been; had been; should have been; could have been; would have been; should be; could be; seem; feel; become; remain; appear |
| helping verb examples | am; is; was; are; were; has; have; had; be; been; do; does; did; can; could; should; would; will; must; may |
| Alliteration | same beginning consonant sound in two or more words close together |
| connotations | implied meaning |
| onomatopeia | formation of words that sound like or suggest, the object or actions being named |
| Repetition | repeated words and phrases provide emphasis and continuity in poems |
| anapora | intentional repetition |
| Prepositions | shows relationships between people, places, and things |
| prep-spacial | pertaining to space |
| PREP-temporal | having to do w/time |
| prepositions | about; above; across; after; amoung; across; after; among; around; at; before; below; beside; besides; between; by; down; during; for; from; inside; into; near; of; off; on; out; outside; over; past; through; to; twoard; under; until; up; with; without |
| Rhyme | structures and contains a poem; moving reader easily to the end of a line |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| consonnance | repetition of consonant sounds, with different main vowels |
| exact rhyme | when words have identical fial sounds |
| near rhyme | similar but not identical sounds |
| end rhyme | rhyme occuring at the end of lines of poetry; most frequently associated with poetry |
| stanza | group of lines; like a paragraph |
| couplets triplets quatrains | types of stanzas giving poem a fixed stucture |
| limerick | structure of rhyme pattern of aabba-written for humor |
| couplet | two lines of poetry |
| triplet | group of three lines |
| quatrain | four linr stanze rhyme schemes inc- abba, aabb, abab, abcb |
| \meter | pattern of regular heavily stressed and lightly stressed syllables |
| accented | heavily stressed syllables |
| unaccented | lightlt stressed sylables |
| foot | basic pattern |
| iambic foot | unaccented syllable followed by a accented one |
| trochaic foot | reverse of iambic foot |
| anapestic foot | 2 unaccented followed by one accented |
| dactylic foot | opposite od anapestic foot |
| spondaic foot | two stressed syalables |
| scansion | process of marking metrical pattern |
| Blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| haiku | unrhymed meter- 3 lines 55-7-5 syllables |
| sonnet | written in rhyme scheme-abab; cdcd; efef, followed by couplet gg-ENGLISH SONNET |
| tonw | moods shows feeling or attitude of poet |
| symbol | movement image word or sound that reps-a thing, quality; or idead similar to a metaphor or simile-IMPLIES A CONNECTION-DOESN"T STATE IT |
| universal symbol | recognized by world |
| personal symbol | sig- to specific groups, and assumes differents meanings for diferent people |
