<p> Poetry Terms 1. connotation – overtones of meanings and expression, suggests what the word means</p><p>2. denotation – the dictionary definition of a word</p><p>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. </p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>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. </p><p>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</p><p>10. paradox – an apparent contradiction that is nevertheless true  the harder I work the further behind I become</p><p>11. understatement – saying less than you mean, e.g. Albert Einstein is perhaps fairly intelligent.</p><p>12. alliteration – echoed consonant sounds found at the beginning of words  fast and furious, any tongue twister</p><p>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</p><p>15. euphonious - smooth pleasant sounding words  whisper, please  soft, silent sensation</p><p><Continued on Back> 16. onomatopoeia – words that sound like their meaning  swoosh, zip, click, zoom, pop, crackle</p><p>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</p><p> a. internal rhyme – when one or both rhyming words are within one line  As I look at the brook</p><p> 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.</p><p>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</p><p>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?</p><p>20. iamb – also called a foot – each foot/iamb consists of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable  alone – a lone</p><p>21. blank verse – has rhythm (iambic pentameter) but no rhyme</p><p>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.</p><p>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 </p><p>24. lyric poetry – expresses the poet’s mood, experience, and emotion is a musical language</p><p>25. dramatic poetry – poetry written to be acted on a stage, like Shakespeare </p>