Poetry test 1
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- Occassional Verse
- Poem that is written about or for an important event
- Persona
- The speaker of a poem
- Epigraph
- A brief explanatory statement or quotation
- Dramatic Monologue
- Implies a connection between the persona and the auditor. (Telling on yourself).
- Connotation
- Implied meaning or feel that some words have acquired through time.
- Simile
- Comparison using liks, as, or than
- Metaphor
- Direct comparison of two unlike things
- Hyperbole
- Overstatement
- Allusion
- Makes a direct comparison to a historical or literary event/character/etc
- Metonymy
- Use of a related object to stand for the thing beind talked about (The white house announced today...)
- Synecdoche
- Use of a part for the whole (Hire some hands to help...)
- Personification
- Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things
- Apostrophe
- Variety in which a nonhuman thing is directly addresed "Oh Moon...."
- Oxymoron
- A short paradox usually consisting of an adjective and a noun.
- Synesthesia
- Combining multiple sensory experiences
- Irony
- A tone that's contrary to the message that the speaker is portraying.
- Anaphora
- Beginning the same lines with a repeated words or phrase.
- Iambic
- Unstressed, Stressed pattern
- Trochaic
- Stressed, Unstressed pattern
- Anapestic
- Unstressed, Unstressed Stressed pattern
- Dactylic
- Stressed, Unstressed, Unstressed pattern
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Monometer
Dimeter
Trimeter
Tetrameter
Pentameter - One, two, three, four, and five feet of poetry respectively.
- Enjambed lines
- Lines that run in to the next line - they have no period or end stop.
- Pyrrhic
- Two Unstressed
- Spondee
- Two Stressed
- Trope
- A figure of speech
- Assonance
- Repetitive use of vowel sounds
- Consonnance
- Repetitive use of consonant sounds
- Caesura
- Break in a line, often denoted with commas
- Alliteration
- Repetition of same-sounding consonants or vowels
- Internal rhyme
- Rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry
- Accentual verse
- Every line has same number of pattern of accents
- Vehicle
- Part of the simile that the vehicle is being compared to - second part of a simile.
- Tenor
- First word of a simile - the things that are being compared.