Poetry Notes

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Line breaks

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Places where line of poetry ends; used to emphasize words and control flow of poem

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Prose

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Ordinary form of a written language; writing that’s not poetry, drama or song; one of two genres: fiction/nonfiction

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Simile

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Figure of speech using like or as and is used to make a comparison between two unlike subjects

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech using a direct comparison; one thing is spoken as its something else; doesn’t use like or as

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Personification

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When a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

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Alliteration

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Repetition of initial consonant sounds; used for emphasis, imitation, or musical sound

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed symbols

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Onomatopoeia

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Use of words that imitate sounds

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Repetition/refrain

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Use of an element more than once & the repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song

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Rhyme

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Repetition of sounds at the end of words

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Tone

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The writer’s attitude towards his audience or subject

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Mood

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The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage; suggested by disruptive details

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Apostrophe

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Figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent person of personified quality, object, or idea

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Irony

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Involves differences between appearance and reality, expectation and result, or meaning and intention; could be used to express the opposite of what you said

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Sonnet

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14 line poem, usually written in rhymed limbic pentameter