Poetic Terms
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- dramatic poem
- a poem that tells a story
- repetition
- repeated use of a word or phrase for emphasis or rhythmic effect
- modernism
- literary movement that spanned bthe time between the 2 world wars. characterized by high experimentation and spare, elliptical prose. characters are often alienated people searching for something in their lives. reader has to infer characters\' inner thoughts from their words and actions and from symbolism
- mood
- overall feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates
- connotation
- emotional response evoked by a word
- imagery
- descriptive phrases that re-create sensory experiences for the reader
- rhythm
- the pattern or flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line
- stanza
- grouping of lines
- blank verse
- unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter
- speaker
- narrator in the work, or a major character speaking