POETRY- LITERARY TERMS



POETRY- LITERARY TERMS

1) POETRY- any piece of literature written in verse or meter

2) STANZA-one of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines; has a single main idea

3) QUATRAIN-the most popular stanza form in European history; it consists of four lines

4) COUPLET-a pair of successive lines of verse, esp. a pair that rhymes and is of the same length.

5) END RHYME-rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry; the last word of two or more lines rhyme- the exact same letters appear at the end of each word

6) INTERNAL RHYME-a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse- the exact same letters appear at the end of each word

7) IMAGERY-a set of mental pictures or images; the use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.

8) SENSORY WORDS- carefully chosen words that describe things that can be perceived by the senses

9) BALLAD-a simple narrative song or a narrative poem suitable for singing; the ballad usually has short stanzas

10) REPETITION-reiteration or repeating the same word, line, stanza, etc. for the purpose

of making a deeper impression on the audience

11) SIMILE- a comparison of two different things using the words like, as or than

12) METAPHOR- a comparison of two different things as if one is the other

13) PERSONIFICATION- a figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions

have human qualities or are represented as possessing human form

14) ONOMATOPOEIA-the use of words to imitate sounds

15) HYPERBOLE-a figure of speech that uses exaggeration for effect

16) ALLITERATION- the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words- it can be

a vowel sound or a consonant sound

17) ASSONANCE- the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the middle

or at the end of words- the exact same letters cannot appear at the end of each word

18) CONSONANCE- the same consonant sounds are used with in the middle or at the end

of words

19) TONE-an insight into the author’s attitudes about his/her subject or theme

20) MOOD- the state of mind or feeling created by a piece of writing

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