Glossary 3

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A device used in poetry to manipulate the sound of words, sentences or lines.

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Poetic device

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The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words.

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Alliteration

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Example: “Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore”

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Alliteration

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Impact: creates a rhythm that is hard and fast, carrying the text forward

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Alliteration

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The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.

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Assonance

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Example: “From the molten-golden notes”

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Assonance

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Impact: creates a sense of emotional resonance, evoking feelings and emotions

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Assonance

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The repetition of the same consonant sound at the end of words or within words.

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Consonance

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Example: “Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door”

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Consonance

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Impact: creates harmony and resonance within the text

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Consonance

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The use of a word which imitates or suggests the sound that the thing makes.

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Onomatopoeia

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Example: Snap, rustle, boom, murmur

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Onomatopoeia

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Impact: used to create vivid imagery, convey atmosphere, evoke an auditory response, and enhance action scenes

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Onomatopoeia

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When a line of poetry contains a rhyme within a single line.

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Internal rhyme

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Example: “To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!”

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Internal rhyme

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Impact: creates a pleasing rhythm and musicality in written text, enhancing its auditory appeal

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Internal rhyme

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When a poet creates a rhyme, but the two words do not rhyme exactly – they are merely similar.

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Slant rhyme

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Example: “I sat upon a stone, / And found my life has gone.”

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Slant rhyme

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Impact: deepens the theme or mood by adding layers of complexity to the text

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Slant rhyme

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When the last word of two different lines of poetry rhyme.

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End rhyme

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Example: “Roses are red, violets are blue, / Sugar is sweet, and so are you.”

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End rhyme

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Impact: used to create a sense of closure or completeness at the end of a line

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End rhyme

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The pattern of a poem’s end rhymes.

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Rhyme Scheme

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Example: For example, the following lines have a rhyme scheme of a b a b c d c d:

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? a
Thou art more lovely and more temperate. b
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. a
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. b
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines c
And often is his gold complexion dimmed d
And every fair from fair sometime declines c
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed d

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Rhyme Scheme

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Impact: brings order and cohesion to a poem

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Rhyme Scheme

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In every word of more than one syllable, one of the syllables is stressed, or said with more force than the other syllable(s).

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Stressed and unstressed syllables

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Example: In the name “Nathan,” the first syllable is stressed. In the word “unhappiness,” the second of the four syllables is stressed.

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Stressed and unstressed syllables

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Impact: conveys varying tones or moods within a poem, influencing how readers engage with the text

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Stressed and unstressed syllables

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A regular pattern to the syllables in lines of poetry.

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Meter

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Example: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary

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Meter

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Impact: reinforces the message and amplifies the feelings a poet wishes to share

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Meter

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Poetry that doesn’t have much meter or rhyme.

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Free verse

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Example: "I celebrate myself, and sing myself,/And what I assume you shall assume,/For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you./I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease/observing a spear of summer grass" Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

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Free verse

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Impact: lets language and emotion give form to their poems.

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Free verse

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Poetry that is written in lines of 10 syllables, alternating stressed and unstressed syllables.

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Iambic pentameter

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Example: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

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Iambic pentameter

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Impact: creates a pleasing rhythm in the reader’s ear and make the text more musical and memorable

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Iambic pentameter

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A 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter. Usually divided into three quatrains and a couplet.

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Sonnet

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Example: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare." -My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun, by William Shakespeare

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Sonnet

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Impact: used to express a wide range of emotions, from joy and love to anger and sorrow

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Sonnet

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When a writer creates a list of items which are all separated by conjunctions. Normally, a conjunction is used only before the last item in a list.

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Polysyndeton

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Example: “I walked the dog, and fed the cat, and milked the cows.”

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Polysyndeton

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Impact: used to slow down the pace of the writing and/or add an authoritative tone.

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Polysyndeton

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When a word that has two or more meanings is used in a humorous way.

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Pun

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Example: “My dog has a fur coat and pants!” “I was stirred by his cooking lesson.”

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Pun

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Impact: used in a humorous way, to elicit a “jokey” tone, but they can also be used to enhance a reader’s interpretation

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Pun