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Poetry Terms
General Lit Terms
Poetry Terms Continued
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Figurative Language
100
the narrative voice of the poem.
What is the speaker?
100
the emotional quality of a passage or the perceived attitude of a speaker towards a thing or idea in the text.
What is tone?
100

What word describes a rhyming pair of iambic-pentameter lines



What is a heroic couplet?
100
ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach.
What is satirical?
100
a basic comparison of two generally unlike things that produced insight.
What is metaphor?
200
a combination of sounds that produces a harsh or discordant effect.
What is cacophony?
200
the author's choice of words based on their exact or connotative meaning for effect.
What is diction?
200

Define Slant rhyme 

Example: "hold" and "bald


What is a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match.

Another Example:  "moon" and "run"


200
instructive; author attempts to educate or instruct the reader.
What is didactic?
200

A contrast highlighting when what one expects to happen, and what actually happens. 

What is irony
300
the repetition of vowel sounds: “which din dims the light.”
What is assonance?
300
what a word suggests beyond its denotative (precise or dictionary) meaning, including social or emotional connections.
What is connotation?
300
Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end. 

"Once upon a midnight DREARY, while I pondered weak and WEARY."


internal rhyme
300
serious in purpose and convention (no slang, contractions; no idioms).
What is formal?
300
a figure of speech in which some significant aspect of an experience is used to represent the whole experience. "The pen is mightier than the sword."
What is metonymy?
400
the speaker addresses something or someone that cannot answer, something nonliving or inanimate.
What is apostrophe?
400
a clever little story; a short account of an interesting situation relevant to the text and used as example.
What is an anecdote?
400
a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas.  Man proposes; God disposes. 
What is antithesis?
400
short, to the point.
What is terse?
400

a situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least to make sense. 

What is a paradox?
500
represented by a two syllable foot that contains one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iambic meter?
500
a moment of insight, spiritual or personal; a character's sudden revelation about life or his or her own circumstances.
What is epiphany?
500

This word describes a sentence that ends on stressed syllables, like "intrude" and "food"

What is masculine rhyme
500
learned, polished, scholarly.
What is erudite?
500

a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings.  

"A little more than kin, and less than kind."

What is a pun?