Post on 30-Dec-2015
POETRY TERMS
ALLITERATION
The repetition of the initial consonant sounds
ALLUSION
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
The most common types of Allusions are Biblical Mythical Shakespearean
CONSONANCE
The repetition of sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase
Example…. He struck a streak of bad luck.
ODYSSEUS
ROMEO AND JULIET
"From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels".
ASSONANCE
The repetition of vowel sounds
DICTION
A writer’s or speaker’s word choice
IMAGERY
The descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader. These pictures, or images, are created by details of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, or movement
METAPHOR
Describing something as though it were something else Does not use like or as
Example: All the world’s a stage.
METER
The rhythmical pattern of a poem determined by the number and types of stresses, or beats in each line
ONOMATOPOEIA
Words that imitate sound
PERSONIFICATION
A nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
REPETITION
a thing, word, action, sound etc, that is repeated
RHYME SCHEME
A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
RHYTHM
The pattern of beats, or stresses, in spoken or written language
FREE VERSE
Poetry that lacks a regular rhythmical pattern, or meter
SIMILE
A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two subjects, using either like or as.
SYMBOL
Anything that stands for or represents something else
TONE
The writer’s attitude toward his or her subject, characters or audience
MOOD
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
OXYMORON
Two seemingly opposite concepts or concrete objects are placed close together, yet still making sense
EXAMPLES
Jumbo-Shrimp
STANZA
Looks like “a paragraph”
HYPERBOLE
An extreme exaggeration
EXAMPLE
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
THEME
The central message Is NOT one word like LOVE, HATE, etc. One should love all living creatures
because we are all in this together.