English mid term

free verse: a form of poetry that does not follow a set rhythm, scheme or pattern

lyric poem: express intense emotional thoughts and moods

ballads: a narrative poem with song like form usually based on folk legend, love story or legend

sonnet: a fourteen line poem which follows a set rhyme scheme

haiku: a seventeen syllable poem (5,7,5)

ode: a lyric poem full of noble feeling

blank verse: consists of unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, best for dramatic verse in english and commonly used for long poems

mood: readers attitude towards the event of a poem

atmosphere: the feeling surrounding a poem

diction: a poets word choice

irony: a condition that is the opposite of what the reader is lead to expect

symbol: a concrete symbol that stands for an abstract concept

theme: the main message

tone: the authors attitude towards a subject

assonance: the repetition of the same vowel

consonance: the close repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after different vowels

imagery: descriptive language

sensory details: specific words that are used as images

cacophony: the use of hard sounds

euphony: the use of soft sounds

stanza: the divisions of a poem

Apostrophe: a type of poem in which a thing or person that is dead or incapable of understanding is addressed directly

denotation: the dictionary meaning

connotation: informal meanings

couplet: a pair of rhyming lines

thesis: the main idea or point

method of development: develop and support the thesis

example and illustration: using facts and statistics to prove a point

definition: very specific, dictionary meaning

contrast: use of differences between ideas to prove a point

compare: similarities and/or differences

cause/effect: author may give a cause and discuss the effects

classification: using categories to classify things

description: using detail to make a point

narration: use of stories to contribute to the essays point

process analysis: used to explain a point step by step

pronoun reference: using pronouns instead of restating people or things

parallel structure: using the same grammatical tense which clarifies a point

punctuation: allow for extra thoughts, dashes, parentheses, semi colon, colon

sequence of ideas: temporal: time reference, spatial: top/bottom, logical, chronological

appositive: adds extra information

repetition of key words and synonyms: using the same word, phrase or idea

transitions: using connecting words to join ideas and concepts

unity: makes the piece seem like one and flow together