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Page 1: POETRY REVIEW TERMS Mood: The overall atmosphere or prevailing emotional feeling of a work Imagery: The use of concrete details that appeal to the five

POETRYPOETRY

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REVIEW TERMSREVIEW TERMS•Mood: The overall atmosphere or prevailing emotional feeling of a work

•Imagery: The use of concrete details that appeal to the five senses

•Symbol: Something concrete (such as an object) that stands for something abstract (such as a concept or an idea)

•Theme: The main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work

•Tone: the writer’s attitude toward the subject of a literary work

•Style: the unique way a writer uses language

•Irony: when a writer means the opposite of what is said

•Ambiguity: uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language

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The process of reading,

understanding, and analyzing poetry

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What is happening on the surface of

a poem

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The deeper, sometimes hidden, meaning of a poem

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Factual, non-poetic language

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Language that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect

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A group or unit of lines in a

poem

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Repeated lines in a poem or song

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The rhythm of poetry

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The actual dictionary definition of a word

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The emotional or figurative connections attached to a

word

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A writer’s choice of words

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A writer’s right to bend/break the rules of writing in order to

achieve a specific effect or purpose

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The regular form of written language

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A reference to a historical figure, place, or event

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The teams competed in a

David and Goliath struggle.

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A direct comparison between two basically different things that is

introduced by the words “like” or “as”

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My love is like a red, red rose.

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An implied comparison between two basically different things that is not

introduced with the words “like” or “as”

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His eyes were daggers that cut

right through me.

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A great exaggeration to emphasize strong feeling

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My backpack weighs a ton.

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Human characteristics given to non-human animals, objects, or

ideas

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The sun kissed the flowers.

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A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem

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“Twinkle twinkle little star,How I wonder what you areUp above the world so high,Like a diamond in the sky.”

(AABB)

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Poetry without a regular pattern of

meter (beat) or rhyme

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The repetition of identical sounds at the ends of lines of poetry

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“He clasps the crag with crooked hands

Close to the sun in lonely lands”

from “The Eagle” by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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The repetition of identical sounds within a line of poetry

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“We three shall flee across the sea to Italy.”OR

“Hold infinity in the palm of your handAnd eternity in an hour.”

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A slant rhyme or half rhyme occurs when the vowel sounds

are not quite identical

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“And on that cheek and o’er that brow”

A mind at peace with all below”

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A poem that tells a story

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“Little Miss Moffat sat on a

tuffet...”

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The repeating of a sound, word, phrase, or more in a given literary

work

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“I sprang to the stirrup, and Jarvis, and he;I galloped, Derrick galloped, we galloped all

three”

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The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words

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“Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship”

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The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different

consonant

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“. . .that hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.”

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The repetition of consonant sounds that are preceded by different vowel

sounds

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“Wherever we go

Silence will fall like dews”

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The use of words whose sounds suggest the sounds made by objects

or activities

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“Blind eyes could blaze like

meteors”

Other examples:

buzz, hum, kiss

Other examples:

buzz, hum, kiss

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SONNETSONNET

A fourteen-line poem, that is divided into three quatrains (rhyming four-line stanzas) and a concluding couplet (pair of rhyming lines)

Each quatrain makes a point or gives an example, and the couplet sums it all up.

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A long lyric poem about a serious subject, written in a dignified style

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A short poem that expresses a basic emotion