University:
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology
Course:
ENGL 300 | English Language Literature
Academic year:

2024
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500

Pages:

1
Author:

Annalise Walters

Know The Lingo Poetry Terms 1. Alliteration: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words 2. Allusion: a brief reference to a real or fictional person event place or work of art 3. assonance: the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels 4. ballad: a story narrative in poetic form 5. consoance: the author's specific word choice 6. diction: the repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text 7. enjambent: this occurs when one line ends without punctuation 8. free verse: poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter 9. metaphor: a figure of speech that a comparison between between two things without using the words like or as 10. meter: the measured arangment of sounds in a poem uncluding the poets placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line 11. onomanopeia: a word that sounds like what it means 12. rhythm: the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry 13. simile: a figure of speech that makes a comparison using like or as 14. stanza: a unified group of lines in poetry that is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem 15. symbol: an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning 16. theme: thecentreal meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader 17. tone: the attitude the poems narrator takes toward a subject or character 18. verse: a single line of poetry 1/1