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| alliteration | repition of initial constant sounds |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stress symbols: cat hat |
| dramatic poetry | poetry that involves the techniques of drama. A dramatic monologue is a poem spoken by a person |
| image | a word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses -usually sight |
| lyric poetry | highly musical verse that expresses the feelings of a single speaker |
| metaphor | a direct comparison between two unlike ideas ,people or things:Ex. She is a stick. |
| mood | the emotional response from the reader to a story or poem |
| narrative poetry | a poem that tells a story |
| onomatopeia | descriptive words in poetry using sounds: buzz, bang, swish, etc. |
| personification | the type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics |
| simile | figure of speech in which "like" or "as" is used to make a comparison: she is LIKE a stick |
| speaker | the imaginary voice assumed by the writer of the poem |
| tone | the author's attitude towards his subject: humorous, serious,etc |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| concrete poetry | the shape of the peom suggests its subject |
| couplet | a pair of rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter; a couplet geerally expresses a single idea |
| figurative language | language that uses figures of speech in a way of saying one thing and meaning another); not meant to be interpreted literally |
| foot | groups of syllables |
| free verse | poety not written in a regular rhythmical pattern of meter |
| haiku | a three line Japanese verse form. The first and third lines have five syllables; the second line has seven syllables. A haiku seeks to convey a single emotion by means of images of nature |
| imagery | poet's use of words to create mental pictures or images to communicate and experience |
| meter | the rythmical pattern of a poem |
| refrain | when a word or phrase appears in the same position in all or many stanzas of a poem; a repeated use of a word or phrase |
| rhyme scheme | regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |
| rhythm | arrangment or pattern of stressed words in a poem |
| sonnet | a fourteen line lyric poem usually written in iambic pentameter |
| stanza | a formal division of lines in a poem, considered as a unit |
| denotation | a defintion of a word or pharse |
| connotation | a word that sets assocations athat occur to people when they hear or read it |
| symbolism | an object person that has meanings in the story but stands for something at a larger idea |
