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Glossary
ALLITERATION:
Glossary
The repetition of consonant
sounds, especially at the
beginning of words.
IMPLICIT:
Example:
IRONY:
ANTONYM:
ASSONANCE:
words that are opposite in
meaning
The repetition of similar vowel
sounds in a sentence or line of
poetry.
Example:
LIMERICK:
METAPHOR:
implied, rather than
expressly stated
The use of words to convey a
meaning that is the opposite of
its literal meaning: the irony of
her reply, “How nice!” when I
said I had to work all weekend.
A light or humorous verse form
of five lines in which lines one,
two and five are of three feet
and lines three and four are of
two feet, with a rhyme scheme
of a-a-b-b-a.
an association of two
completely different objects as
being the same thing
Example:
BLANK VERSE:
CONNOTATION:
A line of poetry or prose in
unrhymed iambic pentameter.
The personal or emotional
associations called up by a
word that goes beyond its
dictionary meaning.
Example:
METER:
MOOD:
ONOMATOPOEIA:
CONSONANCE:
the repetition of ending
consonant sounds, but the
vowel sounds are different.
PARODY:
The dictionary meaning of a
word.
Example:
"sound echoing sense"; use of
words resembling the sounds
they mean
Example:
Example:
DENOTATION:
The measured pattern of
rhythmic accents in poems.
The feelings of the reader of a
poem.
PERSONIFICATION:
a humorous or satirical
imitation of a serious piece of
literature or writing: his
hilarious parody of Hamlet's
soliloquy. EX: Scary Movie
attribution of human motives
or behaviors to impersonal
agencies
Example:
ELEGY:
A sad and thoughtful poem
that is often about a person
who has died.
PUN:
The humorous use of a word or
phrase so as to emphasize or
suggest its different meanings
or applications, or the use of
words that are alike or nearly
alike in sound but different in
meaning; a play on words.
Glossary
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE:
FORM:
FREE VERSE:
Glossary
A form of language use in
which writers and speakers
mean something other than
the literal meaning of their
words. (E.g. hyperbole,
metaphor, and simile)
QUATRAIN:
A stanza or poem of four lines.
RHYME:
The matching of final vowel or
consonant sounds in two or
more words.
RHYTHM:
The recurrence of accent or
stress in lines of verse. An
internal 'feel' of beat and
meter perceived when poetry
is read aloud.
SETTING:
The time and place of a literary
work that establishes its
context.
SIMILE:
A figure of speech invoking a
comparison between unlike
things using "like," "as," or "as
though."
A group of lines which form a
division of a poem. “A poem’s
paragraph.”
The arrangement, manner or
method used to convey the
content, such as free verse,
couplet, limerick, haiku...
Poetry without a regular
pattern of meter or rhyme.
HAIKU:
A Japanese form of poetry,
which gives a brief description
of nature. Haiku consists of
three unrhymed lines of five,
seven and five syllables.
HOMONYM:
Two or more distinct words
with the same pronunciation
and spelling but with different
meaning
Example:
STANZA:
HOMOPHONE:
two or more words with the
same pronunciation but with
different meanings and
spellings.
HYPERBOLE:
an exaggeration of the truth
Example:
STRUCTURE:
The design or form of a literary
work.
SYMBOL:
An object or action in a literary
work that means more than
itself, that stands for
something beyond itself.
One of two or more words that
have the same or nearly the
same meanings.
SYNONYM:
IDIOM:
IMAGE:
IMAGERY:
IAMBIC PENTAMETER:
an expression whose meaning
is not predictable from the
usual meanings of its
constituent elements, as kick
the bucket or hang one's head,
A concrete representation of a
sense impression, a feeling, or
an idea.
Figurative language used to
create particular mental
images
A form of poetry that has ten
syllables to a line alternating
unstressed then stressed.
Example:
THEME:
a unifying or dominant idea,
motif, etc., as in a work of art
TONE:
The implied attitude of a writer
(or speaker) toward the subject
and characters of a work.
VERSE:
Refers to either a single line of
poetry or to metrical poetry in
general.