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Basic Poetry Terms
Alliteration The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the begging of closely placed words
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Allusion Figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or something that has
happened
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Assonance The repetition of the sound of a vowel to create internal rhyming in phrases or sentences
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Atmosphere The feeling, emotion, or mood a writer conveys through the description of the setting and
different objects
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(This can be used to represent a creepy mood
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IE- The old man froze in his seat, horrified
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Consonance A reference to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase
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Basic Poetry Terms
Contrast The state of being strikingly different from something else
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Couplet Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by a rhyme, that form a unit
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IE- If you were to look up “snake” in the dictionary, you would get the definition of a
reptile that is legless, scaly, etc
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So if Shakespeare called something a snake, and it was literally a snake, that
would be an example of denotation
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IE- “I’m going to kill myself,” said the exasperated Timmy as Sarah failed once again
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Hyperbole Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
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Imagery Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work
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Jargon Special words or expressions used by a certain profession or group that are usually
difficult for others to understand
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You might say something that someone else doesn’t
understand, but you and your friends do
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Metaphor A figure of speech where a phrase is applied to an object to which it’s isn’t applicable
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(This assuming the person isn’t a clown, of course
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IE- The tear rolled down Clarissa’s beautiful face, unnoticed by her unloving parents
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Onomatopoeia The formation of a word from a sound associated with what it is named
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Oxymoron A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear together
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Personification The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non human
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Repetition The
The
The
The

action
action
action
action

of repeating
of repeating
of repeating
of repeating

something
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something
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Basic Poetry Terms
Rhyme Correspondence of sound between words or the ending of words
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Rhyme Scheme The ordered pattern of rhymes at the sends of the lines of a poem/verse
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(B)
Beautiful they are; (C)
But I love you
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This means that B will rhyme with B and so on and
so forth
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IE- The beat of a song
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IE- The Hunger Games is a satire based on politics and the extremes it can lead to
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Simile A comparison of one thing to another using words such as “like” or “as”
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Stanza A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem or verse
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Easiest way I know how to describe it
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IE- The cross on the church shown in the sunlight
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Theme The subject, topic, etc
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IE- The theme of Othello is jealousy, as he lashes out because he’s jealous
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IE- How the author is biased when he writes something is a good idea of tone
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