Poetry+Vocabulary

1. Figurative Language: // 2. // Rhyme: //Repetition of certain sounds or syllables in poetry.Steven Zipf// 3. Rhyme Scheme: 4. Meter: 5. Metaphor: A figure of speech involving an implied comparison between two unlike things-Angela Bealonis(: // 6. // Extended Metaphor: 7. Simile//:// //A figure of speech involving a direct comparison, using like or as, between two basically unlike things.// Michael Arcurio 8. Iambic Pentameter: // 9. // Alliteration: he repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables; Tyler Lampel 10. Allusion: 11. Analogy: 12. Assonance: 13. Free verse: Irony: 14. Mood: 15. Refrain: 16. Hyperbole: //A figure of speech involving great exaggeration// Karli Grow 17. Onomatopoeia: A word or words used in such a way that the sound imitates the sound of the thing spoken of. Sabrina Woolf // 18. // Stanza: //Any pattern of rhyme in a poem-James Mical// 19. Symbol: 20. Personification: // 21. // Imagery: // 22. // Internal Rhyme: //.// 23. Tone: 24. Idiom: dialect: the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people forrest newman 25. Synecdoche: 26. Allegory: 27. Paradox: 28. Oxymoron: Apostrophe: 29. Metonymy: · // substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads' // Sam Gagan  30. Consonance: 31. Synaesthesia 32. Sonnet: // A 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes. // Sarah Rogers 33. Ballad: 34. Haiku: //A Japanese poem having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally about an aspect of nature or the seasons.-// Lukas Kleinmeyer   35. Ode: // A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal structure-Jeremy Nestor //   36. Lyric  37. Quatrain: - //A stanza or poem of four lines. - Jaime Bumbernick//   38. Couplet: // A poem consisting of two lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought- Kevin Dailey // 39. Foot: 40. Trochee: 41. Spondee: 42. Anapest: 43. Dactyl: // 44. // Diction: 45. Echo: a repitition of sound- Andrea Bealonis 46. Iamb: // A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable-brett moeckli // // 47. // Blank Verse: // 48. // End Rhyme:

· // A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented. // · // An author’s choice of words and phrases in a literary work. // · // A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable // · // Unrhymed iambic pentameter. // · // The rhyming of words at the ends of lines of poetry. // · // The exact repetition of sounds in at least the final accented syllables of two or more words. //

· // Language used in a nonliteral way to express a suitable relationship between essentially unlike things. // · // A figure of speech involving an implied comparison between two unlike things. // · // Any pattern of rhyme in a poem. // · // The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. // · // A comparison that is developed at great length, often through a whole work or a great part of it. // · // A figure of speech involving a direct comparison, using like or as, between two basically unlike things. // · // A verse line of five metrical feet. Each foot has an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable. // · // The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words or within words // · // A brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art. // · // A comparison made between two objects, situations, or ideas that are somewhat alike but unlike in most respects. Frequently an unfamiliar or complex object or idea will be explained through a comparison to a familiar of simpler one. // · // The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds. // · // A type of poetry written with rhythm and other poetic devices but without a fixed pattern of meter and rhyme // · The repetition of consonant sounds that are preceded by different vowel sounds. · // The description of one kind of sense by using words that normally describe another (the grass smelled green). // · // A 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes. // · // A narrative song or poem passed on in the oral tradition. It often makes use of repetition and dialogue. // · // A Japanese poem having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally about an aspect of nature or the seasons. // · // A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal structure. // · // A poem expressing deep personal emotion. // · // A stanza or poem of four lines // · // A poem consisting of two lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought. // · // a group of syllables in verse usually consisting of one accented syllable and one or more unaccented syllables. A foot may occasionally have two accented syllables or two unaccented syllables. The most common line lengths are five feet (pentameter), four feet (tetrameter), and three feet (trimeter). // · // A metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable, as in // season · // A metrical foot consisting of two stressed syllables. // · // A metrical foot composed of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed, as in the word // seventeen//.// · // The term used to describe a contrast between what appears to be and what really is. // · // The overall atmosphere or emotional aura of a work. // · // A phrase, verse, or group of verses repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza. // · // A figure of speech involving great exaggeration. // · // A word or words used in such a way that the sound imitates the sound of the thing spoken of. // · // A group of lines that are set off and form a division in a poem. // · // A person, place, event, or object that has a meaning in itself but suggests other meanings as well. // · // The representation of abstractions, ideas, animals, or inanimate objects as if alive or humanlike. // · // Concrete words or details that provide vividness in a literary work. Imagery tends to arouse emotions or feelings in a reader that abstract language does not. // · // The rhyming of words or accented syllables within a line that may or may not have a rhyme at the end as well // · // The author’s attitude, either stated or implied, toward his or her subject matter and toward the audience. // · // An expression whose meaning cannot be understood from the ordinary meaning of the words in it. (i.e. to rub elbows) // · // A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword). // · // The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form. // · // A seemingly contradictory statement that may contain a sense of truth // · // Two contradictory terms placed side by side for dramatic effect. // · // Poem which is directly addressed to a person or thing (often absent). // · // substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads' //