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| A song that tells a story. |
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| An emphasis or stress placed on a syllable in speech. |
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The repetition of two or more consonant sounds in successive words in a line of cerse or prose
"cool cats"
"In kitchen cups concupiscent curds" |
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The repetition of two or more vowel sounds in successive words, which creates a kind of rhyme. Creates a more mermorable phrase
Initially "awful augeries"
Internally "white liliacs" |
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The most common and well-known meter of unrhymed poetry in English
Contains five iambic feet per line and is never rhymed. (Shakespeare, Frost's Mending Wall) |
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A harsh, discordant sound often mirroring the meaning of the context in which it is used.
"Grate on the scrannel pipes of wretched straw"
Opposite of euphony |
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A generic term that describes poetry written in some preexisting pattern of meter, rhyme, line or stanza.
Closed forms include the sonnet, sestina, villanelle, ballade and rondeau. |
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| A visual poetry composed exclusively for the page in which a picture or image is made of printed letters and words. |
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An association or additional meaning that a word, image, or phrase may carry, apart from its literal denotation or dictionary definition.
Example: Owls are wise. |
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A two-line stanza in poetry, usually rhymed, which tends to have lines in equal length.
Example:
Give my love fame faster than time wastes life;So though prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife |
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| The literal, dictionary meaning of a word. |
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| A particular variety of language spoken by an identifiable regional group or social class of persons. |
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| Word choice or vocabulary. |
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| Words that express general ideas or concepts. |
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| Involves a highly specific word choice in the naming of something or someone. |
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| A narrative that intends to teach a specific moral lesson or model for proper behavior. |
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| A figure of speech in which a spoken phrase is devised to be understood in either of two ways |
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A poem written as a speech made by a character at some decisive movement.
Examples
T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock"
Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" |
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| Rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines, rather than within them. Most common. |
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| A pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear |
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| A full rhyme in which the sounds following the initial letters of the words are identical in sound, as in follow and hollow, go and slow, disband and this hand. |
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| A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem |
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| Rhyme in which the spelling of the words appears alike, but the pronunciations differ, as in laughter and daughter, idea and flea. |
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| Words which are similar in spelling but different in pronunciation, like mow and how or height and weight |
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| Describing something by comparing it with something else |
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| A japanese verse form that has three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables |
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| the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. Overstatement. |
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| The collective set of images in a poem or other literary work. |
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| Rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry as oppesed to end rhymes. |
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| Language that is characterized by uncommon or pretentious vocabulary |
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| A short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker. Often written in first person. Usually Songlike. |
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| A statement that one thing is something else which in a literal sense it is not. "Richard is a pig" |
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| A recurrent regular ryhthmic pattern in verse. When stresses recr at fixed intervals, the result is meter. |
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| rhyming consonances on the final consonants of the words involved (e.g. ill with shell). Many half/slant rhymes are also eye rhymes |
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| rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours |
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| A poem written for a particular occasion, such as a dedication, birthday, or victory |
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A literary device that attempts to represent a thing or action by the word that imitates the sound associated with it.
(Bang, crash, pitter-patter, buzz) |
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| Open Form Poetry/Open Verse |
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| Verse that has no set formal scheme-- no mtere, rhyme or even set stanzaic pattern. Open form is always in free verse. |
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| A statement that at first strikes one as self contradictory but that on reflection reveals some deeper sense. |
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| The restatement in one's own words of what we understand a literary work to say. |
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| Latin for "mask". A fictitious character created by an author to be the speaker of a poem, story or novel. |
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| A figure of speech in which a thing, an animal, or an abstract term is endowed with human characteristics. |
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| A play on words in which one word is substitued for another similar or identical sound but of very different meaning. |
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| Two or more words that contain an identical or similar vowel sound. |
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| The pattern of stresses and pauses in a poem. A fixed and recurring rhythm in a poem is called meter. |
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| A comparison of two things, indicated by some connective, usually like, as than or a verb such a resembles. "Cool as a cucumber" |
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| Fixed form of fourteen lines, traditionally written in iambic pentameter, usually made up of an octave (first 8 lines) and a sestet (six lines). |
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| A recurring pattern of two or more lines of verse, poetry's equivalent to the paragraph in prose. |
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| the way in which linguistic elements (as words) are put together to form phrases or clause |
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| The attitude toward a subject conveyed in a literary work. |
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| a word or sequence of words that refers to the sense of sight or presents something one may see. |
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