1. Connotation Overtones of Meanings and Expression, Suggests What the Word Means

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

16. onomatopoeia – words that sound like their meaning  swoosh, zip, click, zoom, pop, crackle

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