1. Connotation Overtones of Meanings and Expression, Suggests What the Word Means
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Poetry Terms 1. connotation – overtones of meanings and expression, suggests what the word means
2. denotation – the dictionary definition of a word
3. imagery - representation through language of sense experience – mental pictures, something seen with the mind’s eye. Although visual imagery is most common, it can also represent sound, smell, taste, and touch.
4. symbols – something that means more than it is; an object representing an abstract idea or concept. the cross on her necklace reminded her of Johnny’s death a wedding ring
5. metaphor – saying one thing IS another thing – a comparison (without using like or as) connected by a “to be verb” he’s a zero it is the moon and Juliet is the sun
6. simile – a comparison between 2 unlike things using a words such as: like, as, similar to, or resemble my love is as boundless as the sea her eyes sparkled like diamonds
7. personification – giving human qualities to non-human things Can it be that Death is amorous? The open book spoke to me of magical adventures.
8. hyperbole - ( hi – per – bo – lee) – an overstatement or exaggeration used for effect he weighs a ton I am so hungry I could eat a horse
10. paradox – an apparent contradiction that is nevertheless true the harder I work the further behind I become
11. understatement – saying less than you mean, e.g. Albert Einstein is perhaps fairly intelligent.
12. alliteration – echoed consonant sounds found at the beginning of words fast and furious, any tongue twister
13. assonance - echoed vowels with different consonants he’s a brusin’ loser the old, cold, stone pillar was moldy 14. cacophonous – rough harsh sounding words tight, crackle, cackle
15. euphonious - smooth pleasant sounding words whisper, please soft, silent sensation
17. rhyme – a combination of echoed consonants and vowels in which the sounds of the accented vowel and all the consonants and vowels following it are the same – words that sound alike time, slime, climb, lime
a. internal rhyme – when one or both rhyming words are within one line As I look at the brook
b. end rhyme – when both rhyming words are at the end of separate lines My weekend was like any other, I went to a movie with my Mother.
18. rhythm – the musical quality of a poem, the combination of stressed and unstressed syllables that create a pattern Because I could not stop for Death, it kindly stopped for me
19. iambic pentameter – a line of poetry that consists of 5 iambs/feet (pg. 554 in EOL book) But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
20. iamb – also called a foot – each foot/iamb consists of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable alone – a lone
21. blank verse – has rhythm (iambic pentameter) but no rhyme
22. stanza – a group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit. It is similar to a paragraph in an essay. A blank line separates each stanza.
23. narrative poetry – poetry that tells a story epic – long narrative with a large scope, deals with an entire race or nation (The Odyssey) ballad – tells a simple, usually sad story
24. lyric poetry – expresses the poet’s mood, experience, and emotion is a musical language
25. dramatic poetry – poetry written to be acted on a stage, like Shakespeare