Poetry+Vocabulary

1. Figurative Language: // A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword).- Sarah Clark // // 2. // Rhyme: //The exact repetition of sounds in at least the final accented syllables of two or more words. ~Sarah Marley// 3. Rhyme Scheme: //Any pattern of rhyme in a poem. Leah Mercik//

4. Meter: //The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry- Mariel Kramer// 5. Metaphor: //A figure of speech involving an implied comparison between two unlike things. Tori Parlock// // 6. // Extended Metaphor: 7. Simile//: A figure of speech involving a direct comparison, using like or as, between two basically unlike things - //// Kasia Foster // 8. Iambic Pentameter: // 9. // Alliteration: // Repetition of certain sounds or syllables in poetry. Jill Kittka // 10. Allusion: //A brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art. //- T.J. Rosage 11. Analogy: a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based-Meghan Mock 12. Assonance: 13. Free verse: Irony: 14. Mood: //A poem expressing deep personal emotion ~Maggie Oberst// 15. Refrain: 16. Hyperbole:// A figure of speech involving great exaggeration. - Michael Vliet // 17. Onomatopoeia: //A word or words used in such a way that the sound imitates the sound of the thing spoken of. James Kane// // 18. // Stanza: // A group of lines that are set off and form a division in a poem. Robert Joseph Varner // 19. Symbol: //A person, place, or thing which has a meaning in itself but may suggest other meanings//- Dan Durham 20. Personification: // 21. // Imagery: // 22. // Internal Rhyme: //.// 23. Tone: 24. Idiom: //An expression whose meaning cannot be understood from the ordinary meaning of the words in it. (i.e. to rub elbows)// ***JILL CLARK*** 25. Synecdoche: 26. Allegory: 27. Paradox: 28. Oxymoron: Apostrophe: 29. Metonymy: 30. Consonance: 31. Synaesthesia 32. Sonnet: // A 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes. //- Evan Louder 33. Ballad: 34. Haiku: //A Japanese poem having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally about an aspect of nature or the seasons.// ~Angela Sutt~ 35. Ode:a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion. - Dominic Ramirez 36. Lyric 37. Quatrain: //A stanza or poem of four lines// -Liz Petrell- 38. Couplet: 39. Foot: 40. Trochee: 41. Spondee: 42. Anapest: 43. Dactyl: // 44. // Diction: 45. Echo: 46. Iamb: // 47. // Blank Verse:  · // Unrhymed iambic pentameter. Christi Faucher // // 48. // End Rhyme: · // The rhyming of words at the ends of lines of poetry. Steph Hetrick //

· // A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented. // · // An author’s choice of words and phrases in a literary work. // · // Repetition of certain sounds or syllables in poetry. // · // A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable //

· // The exact repetition of sounds in at least the final accented syllables of two or more words. // · · // . // · // A comparison that is developed at great length, often through a whole work or a great part of it. // ·// L //// anguage used in a nonliteral way to express a suitable relationship between essentially unlike things // · // A verse line of five metrical feet. Each foot has an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable. // · // The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words or within words // · · // A comparison made between two objects, situations, or ideas that are somewhat alike but unlike in most respects. Frequently an unfamiliar or complex object or idea will be explained through a comparison to a familiar of simpler one. // · // The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds. // · // A type of poetry written with rhythm and other poetic devices but without a fixed pattern of meter and rhyme // · The repetition of consonant sounds that are preceded by different vowel sounds. · // The description of one kind of sense by using words that normally describe another (the grass smelled green). // · // A narrative song or poem passed on in the oral tradition. It often makes use of repetition and dialogue. // · // A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal structure. // · // A poem consisting of two lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought. // · // a group of syllables in verse usually consisting of one accented syllable and one or more unaccented syllables. A foot may occasionally have two accented syllables or two unaccented syllables. The most common line lengths are five feet (pentameter), four feet (tetrameter), and three feet (trimeter). // · // A metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable, as in // season · // A metrical foot consisting of two stressed syllables. // · // A metrical foot composed of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed, as in the word // seventeen//.// · // The term used to describe a contrast between what appears to be and what really is. // · //The overall atmosphere or emotional aura of a work.// · //A poem expressing deep personal emotion.//

· // A phrase, verse, or group of verses repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza. // · · // A group of lines that are set off and form a division in a poem. //

· // The representation of abstractions, ideas, animals, or inanimate objects as if alive or humanlike. // · // Concrete words or details that provide vividness in a literary work. Imagery tends to arouse emotions or feelings in a reader that abstract language does not. // · // The rhyming of words or accented syllables within a line that may or may not have a rhyme at the end as well // · // The author’s attitude, either stated or implied, toward his or her subject matter and toward the audience. // · // The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form. // · // A seemingly contradictory statement that may contain a sense of truth // · // Two contradictory terms placed side by side for dramatic effect. // · // Poem which is directly addressed to a person or thing (often absent). // · // substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads') //