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Stanza
A section/paragraph of a poem
Couplet / Tercet / Quatrain / Sestet / Octet
Stanzas w/________ lines
Meter
The patter of stressed syllables in Poetry (not every poem uses)
Rhyme Scheme
The pattern of Rhymes in a poem
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word.
*Connotation
The feel/association a word carries.
Diction
The pattern of the types of words a Poem uses
Euphony
Pleasant sound in language
cacophony
Harsh sound in a language
Assonance
Repeated Vowel Sound in a section of texts.
Consonance
Repeated consonant sound in a section of texts.
Alliteration
when a series of words starts, w/ the same sound.
Sibilance
Repeated "S" noise in a text.
Caesura
A dramantic pause in a poem.
*Enjambment
When the end of the line is not the end of the thought.
Hyperbole
An incredible/rhetorical exaguration.
Litotes
An understatement of the importance of something.
Epigraph
Information between the title a the 1st line of a poem.
Onomatopoeia
words that are the sound they are describing.
True Rhyme
Words that def. rhyme.
Slant Rhyme
Words that nearly rhyme. (Snack-fact)
Parallel Structure
When sentences are composed the same way.
Anaphora
When a phrase is repeated at the start of Several Sentences.
Paradox
A situation that cannot solve itself
Oxymoron
A phrase or word that contradicts itself.
Free Verse
A poem with no rhyme or meter.
Sonnet
A 14 line that uses rhyme 2 meter.
Volta
The turning point in a Sonnet.
Villanelle
A 19 line poem with heavy repetition.
Ekphrastic Poetry
A poem that responds to a work of art.
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