Unit 3: Craft and Structure Vocabulary

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  1. poetry
    literature in metrical form
  2. musical
    resembling vocal or instrumental sound
  3. structure
    the building of something and the arrangement of its parts
  4. line
    a row of text written across a page or computer screen
  5. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  6. couplet
    a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
  7. quatrain
    a stanza of four lines
  8. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
  9. meter
    a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse
  10. foot
    a group of syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
  11. free verse
    poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
  12. lyric
    expressing deep emotion
  13. narrative
    consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story
  14. ballad
    a narrative poem of popular origin
  15. epic
    suggestive of a narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
  16. speaker
    the narrative voice of a poem (as distinct from the poet)
  17. imagery
    the use of vivid sensory language in literature
  18. sonnet
    a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
  19. Petrarchan sonnet
    a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd
  20. Shakespearean sonnet
    a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg
  21. ode
    a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
  22. elegy
    a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
  23. haiku
    an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
  24. literal
    without interpretation or embellishment
  25. figurative
    not literal
  26. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  27. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  28. personification
    representing an abstract quality or idea as a human
  29. analogy
    drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity
  30. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  31. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  32. consonance
    the repetition of sounds especially at the ends of words
  33. assonance
    the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
  34. repetition
    the continued use of the same word or word pattern
  35. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  36. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  37. denotation
    the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
  38. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
Created on Mon Feb 08 10:42:20 EST 2021 (updated Fri Jun 18 09:56:15 EDT 2021)

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