poety glossary

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Tercet

Answer 1

3 lined stanza

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Tone

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The emotions the writer is feeling when writing the poem

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Volta

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Where there is a ‘turning point’ within the poem

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Theme

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The central idea of the poem;what it is about

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Stanza

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A verse

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Sonnet

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A poem of 14 lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in english typically having 10 syllables per line

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Simile

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A comparison when we say one thing is ‘like’ something else

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Sibilance

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Repeated ‘sss’ sound used at the beginning or within words close together

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Semantic Field

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A group of words that together create a theme in a text

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Rhyme

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When 2 or more words have the same sound at the end of a line

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Refrain

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Is a verse or a phrase that is repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem- after a chorus or a stanza

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Quatrain

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4 line stanza

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Poetic voice

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The speaker in the poem

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Plosive Consonants

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Harsh consonants such as b and p

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Personification

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When objects or animals are said to have human characteristics

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Persona

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The character/person in the poem

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Oxymoron

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A figure of speech that joins together words of opposites meaning bitter sweet

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that sound like what they sound

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Monologue

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A long speech by one person

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that compare unlike objects

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Juxtaposition

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2 directly contrasting ideas

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Imagery

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To use figurative language to create a vivid picture in the mind of the reader

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Hyperbole

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Extreme exaggeration

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Enjambment

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Lines that run over with no punctuation

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End stopped lines

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Full stop at the end of line

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Couplet

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2 lines that rhyme

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Consonance

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The repetition of the same consonant or consonant pattern two or more times in a short succession eg slither slather

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Connotation

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The meaning implied by a particular word

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Cinquain

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5 lined stanza

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Caesura

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Strong pause in a line

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Alliteration

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The same sound is repeated at the start of words that are close together

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Assonance

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Repetition of a vowel sounds to create internal rhyming eg slice of ice