Poetry Terms
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- oxymoron
- contradictory words
- speaker
- person or "voice" presenting the information.
- pun
- play on words based on similarity of sound between 2 words with different meanings
- syntax
- orginazation and placement of words in phrases, sentences, and paragraphs
- imagery
- sensory experience; 5 senses
- figurative language
- unliteral language; used to evoke emotional response
- tone
- the writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject
- symbol
- figure of speech in which an object, person, situation, or action stands for or counts for more than it is literally
- metaphor
- a comparison of unlike things
- allusion
- reference to something in previous literature, mythology, or history
- assonance
- repetition of vowels, sounds often in middle of words
- theme
- main idea of a piece of literature
- connotation
- a word's emotional meaning
- alliteration
- repetition of starting sounds of words
- parallelism
- repeated gramatical patterns in phrases
- personification
- human traits assigned to inanimate things or animals
- irony
- the difference between an expected outcome and the actual outcome
- diction
- word choice
- similie
- comparison of 2 unlike things with like or as
- free verse
- words arranged in lines, but without fixed rhyme or rhythm
- rhyme
- the matching end sounds in lines of poetry
- denotation
- a word's dictionary meaning
- hyperbole
- extreme exaggeration for dramatic effect
- stanza
- groups of lines in a poem
- onomatopoeia
- words whose sounds seem to mimic their meaning