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connotation

emotion meaning/feeling the word gives

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denotation

dictionary meaning of the word

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inversion

changing of the normal word order to fit rhyme scheme or meter

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meter

pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

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iambic foot

one unit of poetic meter, 2 syllables

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monometer

1 foot, 2 syllables

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dimeter

2 feet, 4 syllables

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trimeter

3 feet, 6 syllables

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tetrameter

4 feet, 8 syllables

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pentameter

5 feet, 10 syllables

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scansion/scanning

identifying stressed and unstressed syllables

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(rhyming) couplet

pair of lines that rhyme and/or have the same meter

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lyric poem

a poem that expresses feeling and has a rhyming scheme

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slant rhyme half rhyme, lazy rhyme

formed by words with similar but not identical sounds

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poetic license

departing from conventions/rules of language to create an effect

ex.) thundering → thund’ring

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sonnet

14 line poem from- the Italian word “sonneto” (little song)

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Petrarchan/Italian sonnet

written in iambic pentameter

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lines 1-8 (octave)

introduces the subject

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lines 6-14 (sestet)

comments on the octave

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Shakesperian/elizabethan sonnet

has 3 4- line groups followed by a rhyming couplet

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free verse

poetry that has no rhyme scheme or meter

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parallel structure

repetition of phrases/sentences with the same grammatical structure

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Mood

Environment created by the author

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Tone

How the author feels toward the subject

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Refrain

Repeated lines (nevermore)

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End rhyme

Rhymes at the end of lines

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Internal rhyme

Rhymes that occur inside a line of poety

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Alliteration

Repetition of a consonant sound

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Onomatopoeia

Use of words that echo their sense

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