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Poetry
A metrical writing chosen and arranged to
create or evoke a specific emotional
response through meaning, sound and
rhythm.
Terminology
 Alliteration – repetition of the same or
very similar consonant sounds in words
that are close together in a poem
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“Open here I flung the shutter, when with
many a flirt and flutter, /In there stepped a
stately Raven of the saintly days of yore.”
 Allusion- reference to a statement, a
person, place or event in history,
literature, etc.
Terminology
 Analogy- a comparison made between
two things to show how they are alike in
some respects
 Assonance- repetition of similar vowel
sounds that are followed by different
consonant sounds.
 Ballad – a song that tells a story
Terminology
 Blank verse - poetry written in
unrhymed iambic pentameter
 Connotation- the meanings,
associations, or emotions that a word
suggests
 Couplet- two consecutive lines of poetry
that rhyme
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am his Highness’ dog at Kew;
Pray me, Sir, whose dog are you?”
Terminology
 Denotation – the definition of a word
 Diction- A writer or speaker’s choice of
words
 Epic – a long story told in an elevated
language which relates the deeds of a
“larger-than-life” hero who embodies the
values of a particular society
Terminology
 Free verse – poetry that does not have
a regular meter or rhyme scheme
 Haiku – Japanese verse form consisting
of three lines and usually seventeen
syllables (5 first line, 7 second, 5 third)
 Hyperbole – figure of speech using
exaggeration to express an emotion. An
overstatement.
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His shoes were the size of ocean liners.
Terminology
 Idiom – expression peculiar to a
particular language that means
something different from the original
meaning of each word
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Raining cats and dogs
 Imagery - language that appeals to any
of the senses
 Inversion – reversal of the normal word
order of a sentence
Terminology
 Lyric poetry – poetry that does not tell a story
but is aimed only at expressing a speaker’s
emotions or thoughts.
 Metaphor – a figure of speech that makes a
comparison between two unlike things. Does
not use LIKE or AS
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“My love is a red rose”
Implied – does not directly say that something is
something else but uses words to suggest the
nature of the comparison
 “O, my love bursts into bloom”
Extended - a metaphor that is developed over
several lines
Terminology
 Meter – generally regular pattern of stress and
unstressed syllables
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Iambic (*/)
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
Trochaic (/*)
 Tell me not in mournful numbers
Anapestic (**/)
 And the sound of a voice that is still
Dactylic (/**)
 This is the forest primeval, the…
Terminology
 Onomatopoeia – the expression of a
sound through words
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“Bang”
 Personification - giving human-like
qualities to non human things
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“This poetry gets bored of being alone”
 Refrain – repeated word, phrase, line or
group of lines
Terminology
 Rhyme – repetition of accented vowel
sounds and all sounds following them in
words that are close together as in
poems
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End - rhyme occurs at the end of a line of
poetry
Internal – rhyme occurs within a line of
poetry
 Rhythm – musical quality in language
produced by repetition
Terminology
 Simile – figure of speech that makes a
comparison between two unlike things using
words similar to like, resemble, as, etc.
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“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”
 Sonnet – a 14 line lyric poem that is usually in
iambic pentameter and that has one of several
rhyme schemes
 Stanza – a group of consecutive lines in poetry
that form a single unit
Terminology
 Symbol – a person, place, thing or event
that stands for itself and something
beyond itself as well
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A Scale, An eagle, etc.
 Theme – a central idea of a work of
literature
 Tone – an attitude a writer takes toward
the audience, a subject or a character