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Poetry The

Published on Dec 05, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

POETRY TERMINOLOGY

DEFINITION AND EXAMPLES

SIMILE 🐢

A COMPARISON USING "LIKE" OR "AS"

FREE VERSE

MODERN POETRY THAT DOESNT RHYME

SONNET

A FOURTEEN LINED LYRIC IN IAMBIC
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CLICHÉ

A phrase that is overused

CONCRETE

A POEM THATS VISUAL REPERSENTS THE POEM

METAPHOR

A COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO ITEMS

STANZA

A VERSE PARAGRAPH
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HYPERBOLE

AN EXAGGERATION TO MAKE A POINT

MOOD

THE FEELING OF THE POEM

Allusion

SESTET

Connotation is when a word is described through description

DENNOTATION

A dictionary definition
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IMAGE

The picture the poem creates in the readers head

REPETITION

The repeat of words to make a point
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LITERAL LANGUAGE

The literal meaning of the poem

POEM

Words organized that there is rhythm

SPEAKER

The voice used by the poet

ALLITERATION

Repeated sounds at beginning of words
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ONOMATOPOEIA

Words that sound like what they mean

Ballad

A LONG POEM THAT TELLS A STORY.

PERSONIFICATION

GIVING NON HUMAN ITEMS HUMAN CHARECTORISTICS 
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OXYMORON

single word opposites

Paradox

A LARGER OXYMORON

tone

the narraters attitude
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understatement

the opposite of a hyperbole

iambic Pentameter

  • nine syllables in lengh
  • Unstressed and then stressed words
  • 5 iambs (or feet)

verse

a  paragraph written in a poem

quatrain

four lines in rhythm

octave

eaight lines of poetic rhythm

couplet

two lines of poetic rhythm

rhyme scheme

The pattern of rhyming words

refrain

the chorus of a ballad

Rhyme

words that sound the same 

rhythm

A PATTERN OF SOUND IN A POEM

blank verse

un-rhymed iambic pentameter

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