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Poetry
Poetry terms
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Language - English
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06/20/2005

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What is a rhyme?
Definition
repition of sound
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What is end rhyme?
Definition
repition of sound at the end of lines
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What is a rhyme scheme?
Definition
(ab,ab) pattern of end rhyme
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What is an internal rhyme?
Definition
rhyme on the same line
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What is an alliteration (head rhyme)?
Definition
repition of constanant sound at the beginning of words
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What is a consenance?
Definition
repitition of constanant sound at the beginning of words
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What is an assenance?
Definition
repition of the vowel sound (not spelling, example: once)
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What is the mood (atmosphere)?
Definition
the emotional aura of the story or poem
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What is tone? (additude)
Definition
additude the writer brings to the work
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What is a rhetorical question?
Definition
were an answer isn't expected
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What is verbal irony?
Definition
Contrast between what the character says and means (sarcasm)
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What is dramatic irony?
Definition
Usually seen in plays. The contrast between what the character believes to be true, and what that audience knows to be true.
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What is situational irony?
Definition
the contrast between the expectation of what seems appropriate and the actual outcome, or what proves to be the case.
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What is denotation?
Definition
the literal meaning
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What is conotation?
Definition
the real meaning, it can be positive, negative or neutral
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What is diction?
Definition
word choice
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What is syntax?
Definition
word order
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What is imagery?
Definition
the mental impression the reader gets when the senses are appealed to.
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What is satire?
Definition
ridicules or makes fun
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What is a parody?
Definition
a humurous imitation
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What is a dramatic monologue?
Definition
long speech
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What is an epigram?
Definition
short, witty poem
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What is a didatic?
Definition
teaches a lesson
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What is a narrative?
Definition
tells a story
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What is a descriptive?
Definition
describes
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What is a sonnet?
Definition
Lyrical poem, 14 lines, Iambic pentameter, complicated rhyme scheme
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What is a haiku?
Definition
usually about nature, japanese poem
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What is a blank verse?
Definition
unrhymed iambic pentameter, poetry without the conventions of regular line length, rhyme and rhythms, instead it depends on the natural rhymthm of speech
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What is concrete poetry?
Definition
the form of the words and letters is apart of the meaning
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What is a lyric?
Definition
a song like outburst of a poets thoughts or feelings
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What is an elegy?
Definition
a poem written to the dead, or about the dead
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What is an eulogy?
Definition
abituory. (book you get at funerals about the persons life)
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What is an epitaph?
Definition
the message on the tombstone
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What is an ode?
Definition
in praise of something or someone.
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What is an understatement?
Definition
not stated to the extent it should be
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What is an euphesim?
Definition
used to soften the effect
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What is synectache?
Definition
change of name, substitute the name of the part, for the whole, or the whole for the part
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What is hyperbole? (exageration)
Definition
exageration for effect
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What is symbolism?
Definition
means itself but has a second meaning
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What is a paradox?
Definition
seemingly self contradictory statement or situation which upon examination, proves to be true.
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What is an oxymoron?
Definition
two contradictory terms used together, "jumbo shrimp"
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what is metonomy?
Definition
change of name. A name is changed to something else that suggests the same thing.
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What is the definiton for "figure of speech?"
Definition
a device that suggests meaning in addition to the literal meaning.
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What is a metaphor?
Definition
a suggested comparisson between two different things, giving the chracteristics of one to the other
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What is a simile?
Definition
a stated comparison between two different things, usually using words Like or As.
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What is personification?
Definition
human like characteristics to something that is not human... like an animal, object or concept.
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What is an allusion? (to refer to)
Definition
reference to a story from history, religion, mythology, folklore
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What is an apostrophe?
Definition
when the poem addresses someone or an animal that is not there ("o" Canada)
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What is an onometopoeia?
Definition
sound of the word suggests the sound itself
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What is cacophony? (discord, dimense)?
Definition
discordant sound, not harmonous
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What is euphony?
Definition
harmounous sound
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What is a chorus?
Definition
stanza that is repeated
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What is a refrain?
Definition
line of poetry that is repeated (beginning or end)
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What is rhythm?
Definition
pattern of stressed and unstressed symbols of stanza
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What is metre?
Definition
synonym for rhythm. a pattern of regular rhythm.
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