Poetry Vocab Term

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Poetry

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The act or structure of poems

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Speaker

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A person who speaks in a poem

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Ballad

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A song or poem that tells a story in short stanzas and simple words with repetition and refrain

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Epic Poetry

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A long narrative about a traditional or historical hero

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Free verse

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No stanzas, no rhythm, no definite line lengthen

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Haiku

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Japanese poem with 3 rhythm line totaling 17 syllables (lines 1:5, lines 2:7, line 3:5

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Limerick

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A non sense poem 5 lines Rhyme scene aabba

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Ode

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A poem written to be sung, addressing some person or thing

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Sonnet

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A poem of 14 lines that expresses a single theme/idea

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Couplet

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Two successive lines of poetry

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Octave

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A group of 8 lines of poetry

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Quatrain

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Stanza or poem of 4 lines (rhyme scheme: abba, abab, abcb)

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Stanza

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Grouping of lines in a poem

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Tone

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A feeling or attitude expressed in a poem

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Rhythm

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Gives movement to a poem

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Alliteration

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Repetition of consonant sound (minimum 3 in a row)

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Meter

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Regular and pronounced pattern in a poem (number of syllabus in a line

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Allusion

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An indirect but meaningful reference to previous literature, media, etc)

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Denotation

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The explicit meaning of a word (dictionary)

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Connotation

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A secondary meaning of a word (implied)

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Hyperbole

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An exaggerated statement that is used as a figure of speech (my backpack weighs a ton)

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Imagery

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Metal pictures or images

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Irony

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Use of words to covey the opposite of their literal meaning (The fire house burned down)

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Metaphor

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Language that represents one thing in terms of another (the soccer player IS an animal)

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Simile

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Compare 2 unlike things suing like or as (The soccer player was AS fierce AS a lion)

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Implied metaphor

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Suggested, not directly stated (The coach roared at the team during practice)

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Oxymoron

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A figure of speech where two contradictory ideas are combined (little giants, pretty ugly, deafening silence)

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Personification

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Giving human qualities to a non human thing

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Onomatopeia

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Sound of a word imitates a natural sound (woosh, buzz, varoom)

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Paradox

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A statement contrary to common belief (she was alone in the crowd)

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Inverted word order

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Words in a line turned around for impact (yoda- “me food” makes you reply instead of “I want food”)

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Figurative Language

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Complex image out into one word or image

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Symbols

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Resemblance between two unlike things (the wedding bed)

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Diction

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Choice of words in a poem (Formal thou; thee; Informal: the way we talk now; slang: dude, tight, chill)

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Refrain

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Repetition of one or more phase in the poem

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Repetition

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Phases or word in a poem used over and over to stress a point

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Figure of speech

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An expression used to present a metal picuture in a non-literal sense

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Rhyme

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Correspondence of sounds in words

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End Rhyme

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Rhyming occurring at the end of verse line

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Internal Rhyme

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Rhyming between 2 words within one line

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Rhyme Scheme

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Patterns of rhymes within a unit of verse