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THE LANGUAGE OF POETRY
English 9 Academic
2012
Ms. Brooks
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LYRIC POEM Express the speakers emotions or
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FREE VERSE Poetry that does not have a regular
meter or line scheme. Poets use free verse in order to capture
the natural rhythms of ordinary speech
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HAIKU A 3 line poem with 17 syllables
Lines 1 & 3 have 5 syllables eachLine 2 has 7 syllables
A haiku usually contrasts 2 images from nature or daily life.
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SONNET A 14 line lyric poem They are written in iambic pentameter
and have a regular rhyme scheme.
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CATALOG POEM A poem which presents a list of many
different images
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BALLAD A song that tells a story They usually include a steady rhythm,
strong rhymes, and repetition.
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IMAGE A word or phrase that appeals to one of
our five senses It is one of a poets strongest tools.
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SENSORY DETAILS Elements or words that help you
imagine how something looks, sounds, tastes, or feels.
Sensory details combine to form images.
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FIGURES OF SPEECH Comparisons that are not literarily true.
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Expressions that put aside literal
meanings in favor of imaginative connections.
It is used by poets to convey an idea that might otherwise take many words to express.
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SIMILES Two unlike things are compared using a
word such as like, as, than, or resembles.
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METAPHOR A comparison of two unlike things in
which one thing is said to be another. Does not use the words like or as.
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PERSONIFICATION Human qualities are given to something
that is not human, such as an animal, object, force of nature, or even idea.
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SYNECDOCHE A figure of speech in which a part is
substituted for the whole.
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RHYME The repetitions of a stressed vowel
sound and any sounds that follow.
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END RHYME Rhymes in poetry which occur at the
ends of lines.
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RHYME SCHEME A regular pattern of end rhymes. Rhyme scheme is described using letter,
for example:AbabAabb
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INTERNAL RHYME A rhyme in which at least one of the
rhymed words falls within a line.
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APPROXIMATE RHYME Rhyming words which repeat some
sounds but are not exact echoes. Also referred to as:
Half rhymesNear rhymesSlant rhymes
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RHYTHM A musical quality based on repetition This is the “beat” you hear when
reading a poem.
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METER A regular pattern of stressed and
unstressed syllables that in the lines of a poem. Stressed syllables are marked Unstressed syllables are marked
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FOOT One stressed and one or more
unstressed syllables.
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IAMB A foot that has an unstressed syllable
followed by a stressed syllable
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TROCHEE A foot that contains a stressed syllable
followed by an unstressed syllable.
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ANAPEST A foot with two unstressed syllables,
then a stressed syllable
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DACTYL A foot with one stressed syllable
followed by two unstressed syllables
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SPONDEE A foot with two stressed syllables
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BLANK VERSE A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed
iambic pentameter.
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FREE VERSE Poetry without a regular pattern of
meter or rhyme. The verse is "free" in not being bound
by earlier poetic conventions requiring poems to adhere to an explicit and identifiable meter and rhyme scheme in a form such as the sonnet or ballad.
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ONOMATOPOEIA Using words that sound like what they
mean
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ALLITERATION Repetition of the same consonant sound
in several words
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ASSONANCE The repetition of vowel sounds in
several words
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AUTHOR’S PURPOSE The reason an author decides to write
about a specific topic The way in which an author uses words
to achieve that purpose
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THEME The idea of a literary work abstracted
from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization.
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TONE The implied attitude of a writer toward
the subject and characters of a work.
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STYLE The way an author chooses words,
arranges them in sentences or in lines of dialogue or verse, and develops ideas and actions with description, imagery, and other literary techniques.