Poetry Analysis Vocabulary

Kelly Cook (United States of America)
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  1. denotation
    the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
  2. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  3. figurative
    not literal
  4. form
    a category of things distinguished by some common quality
  5. ode
    a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
  6. epic
    a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
  7. sonnet
    a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
  8. elegy
    a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
  9. haiku
    an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
  10. limerick
    a humorous rhymed verse form of five lines
  11. acrostic
    verse in which the first letter in each line forms a message
  12. verse
    literature in metrical form
  13. prose
    ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
  14. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  15. scansion
    analysis of verse into metrical patterns
  16. rhythm
    alternation of stressed and unstressed elements in speech
  17. free verse
    poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
  18. blank verse
    unrhymed poetry, usually in iambic pentameter
  19. elision
    a deliberate act of omission
  20. end-stopped
    (verse) having a rhetorical pause at the end of each line
  21. enjambment
    continuation from one line of verse into the next line
  22. caesura
    a break or pause in the middle of a verse line
  23. point of view
    a mental position from which things are perceived
  24. speaker
    someone who expresses in language
  25. poet
    a writer of verse consisting of lines that often rhyme
  26. attitude
    a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings
  27. antithesis
    the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas for balance
  28. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  29. theme
    a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work
  30. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  31. assonance
    the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
  32. consonance
    the repetition of sounds especially at the ends of words
  33. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  34. repetition
    the continued use of the same word or word pattern
  35. incremental
    increasing gradually by regular degrees or additions
  36. euphony
    any pleasing and harmonious sounds
  37. cacophony
    loud confusing disagreeable sounds
  38. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  39. apostrophe
    an address to an absent or imaginary person
  40. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  41. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  42. conceit
    an elaborate poetic image comparing very dissimilar things
  43. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  44. symbol
    something visible that represents something invisible
  45. allegory
    a short moral story
  46. paradox
    a statement that contradicts itself
  47. oxymoron
    conjoined contradictory terms
  48. personification
    representing an abstract quality or idea as a human
  49. metonymy
    substituting the name of a feature for the name of the thing
  50. synecdoche
    using part of something to refer to the whole thing
  51. ambiguous
    having more than one possible meaning
Created on Thu Sep 19 09:55:02 EDT 2013 (updated Wed Nov 03 07:49:04 EDT 2021)

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