literary terms for poetry
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Figurative language that compares two unlike things and uses “like” or “as.”
The perfume smelled like a spring day.
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Figurative language that compares two unlike things directly without using a specific word of comparison.
The crowd was a storm.
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Figurative language that speaks of a nonhuman or inanimate thing as if it has human like qualities.
The frog cried.
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People, places, events, or things that have meaning themselves but also stand for something beyond themselves.
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The writer produces mood by creating images and using sounds that convey a particular feeling.
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The attitude a writer takes toward his/her subject, characters, and audience.
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The author’s message in a story. The author reveals something about life and people.
The stories that have a meaning beyond the people and events on their pages- meaning that we can use-are the ones that change our lives. This deeper meaning is called THEME.
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The way a writer uses language. Punctuation Allusion dialect
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The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables—it provides the poem’s beat.
Thĭs lŏvely flówěr féll tŏ séed
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A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Dăy áftěr dáy, dăy áftěr dáy
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The repetition of the sounds of stressed syllables and any unstressed syllables that follow.
sport sputtering court muttering
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A pattern of rhymes in linesABAB or AABB and so on
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The rhyming words occur at the end of the line.
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These rhymes occur within lines.
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These rhymes use sounds that are similar but not exactly the same.
Fellow hollowBat bit
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Repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together.
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The repetition of vowel sounds in words close together.
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The word imitates the sound it makes.
Crash bang boomSnap crackle pop
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Two rhyming lines are consecutive or together (one right after the other).
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A poem written for someone who has died.
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This does not have a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Free verse sounds like ordinary speech.
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Songlike poem that tells a story, often a sad story of betrayal, death, or loss. Ballads usually have a regular, steady rhythm, a simple rhyme pattern, and a refrain, all of which make them easy to memorize.
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A long narrative poem about many deeds of a great hero. Epics are closely connected to a particular culture. The hero of an epic embodies the important values of the society he comes from. (Heroes from epics have-- so far-- been male.)
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A poem that tells a story – a series of related events.
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A poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings of a speaker.
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A long lyric poem, usually praising some subject, and written in dignified language.
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A fourteen-line lyric poem that follows strict rules of structure, meter, and rhyme.
Iambic pentameter is the meter or rhyme pattern most often found in Shakespearean sonnets. [Iambic refers to an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Pentameter means there are five beats or meters per line.]