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poetry vocab
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Literature
12th Grade
12/09/2010

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paraphrase
Definition
prose restatement of the central idea of a poem in personal language
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speaker
Definition
voice used by the author in the poem
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verse
Definition
term used for lines compose
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lyric
Definition
brief poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker
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narrative
Definition
poem that tells a story
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epic
Definition
a long poem on a serious subject chronicling heroic deeds and/or important events
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diction
Definition
choice of words
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juxtaposition
Definition
putting two things side by side to compare them
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Hyperbole
Definition
obvious exaggeration
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litotes
Definition
deliberate understatement
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Ambiguity
Definition
allows for two or more simultaneous interpretations of a word, phrase, action, or situation
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syntax
Definition
the ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns
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tone
Definition
the writers attituted toward a subject
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carpe diem
Definition
type of poetry dealing with love "seize the day."
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similie
Definition
comparing two things using like, as, than, appears, or seems
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implied metaphor
Definition
does not explicitly identify the object
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extended metaphor
Definition
part or all of the poem consists of a series related metaphors and similes
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pun
Definition
a play on words that relies on a word having more than one meaning or sounding like another word.
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synecdoche
Definition
figure of speech in which part of something is used to signify the whole
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metonymy
Definition
something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it
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personification
Definition
human characteristics to non-human things
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apostrophe
Definition
address either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something that is non-human.
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paradox
Definition
statement that initally appears to be self-contradictory but that, on closer inspection, turns out to make sense
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oxymoron
Definition
condensed form of paradox in which two contradictory words are used together
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symbol
Definition
something that represents something else
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Allegory
Definition
narration or description usuually restricted to a single meaning
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irony
Definition
difference between appearence and what is actually true
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Ballad
Definition
narrative set to music
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onomatopoeia
Definition
most direct way in which the sound of a word suggests its meaning
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Alliteration
Definition
repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words
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assonance
Definition
repition of the same vowel sound
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Rhyme
Definition
sound patterns
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eye rhyme
Definition
rhyme in which the spellings are similar but the pronuciations are not
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masculine rhyme
Definition
single syllble words that rhyme (glade, shade)
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feminine rhyme
Definition
rhyme in which one stressed syllable followed by one or more unstressed syllables (butter, clutter)
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off rhyme
Definition
rhyme in which sounds are almost alike but not exactly
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consonanance
Definition
type of near rhyme where an idential consonant sound preceded by a different vowel ( home, same)
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rhythm
Definition
recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds
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caesura
Definition
pause within a line
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rhyme scheme
Definition
pattern of end rhymes
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Ode
Definition
poem with a serious topic and formal tone
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Elegy
Definition
lyric poem written to comemorate someone who is dead
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