English 7 - Poetry Terms

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Alliteration

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

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Annotation

A note that is made when reading any text. In our case we will annotate or make lots of notes when we read poems.

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Ballad

A lively, often funny poem that tells a story and is written in ballad stanzas. A ballad stanza is often (but not always) in the following form: alternating three and four beat lines, with the second rhyming with the fourth (ABCB)

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Connotation

The implied or suggested meaning connected with a word.

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Denotation

The dictionary meaning of a word.

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Imagery

Words or a series of words representing a sensory experience: see/hear, smell, touch/taste.

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Metaphor

Comparison between essentially unlike things without using like or as.

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Meter

The measured pattern of rhythmic accents/stresses in a line of verse.

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Onomatopoeia

The use of words to imitate the sounds of words they describe.

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Personification

The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities

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Prose

The ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.

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Quatrain

Four line stanza or grouping of four lines of verse

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Refrain

A phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza; chorus.

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Rhyme Scheme

The pattern that end sounds make in a poem.

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Rhythm

The arrangement of words into a more or less regular sequence of stressed and unstressed or long and short syllables

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Scanning

Describing the rhythms of poetry by dividing the lines into feet, marking the locations of stressed and unstressed syllables, and counting the syllables.

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Simile

A comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as”

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Stanza

A unit of poetic lines or a “paragraph” in poetry

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Symbol/Symbolism

An object or action that stands for something beyond itself.

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Verse

Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme

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