POETRY TERMS TO KNOW IMAGERY Imagery is language
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POETRY TERMS TO KNOW
IMAGERY • Imagery is language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching.
PERSONIFICATION • Giving human qualities to animals or objects. • Example: a smiling moon, a jovial sun
SONNET • A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. • **Couplet: Two consecutive lines of poetry that work together.
HAIKU • Presents a vivid picture and the poet’s impression, sometimes with suggestions of spiritual insight. • The traditional haiku is three lines long: the first line is five syllables, the second line is seven syllables, and the third line is five
RHYTHM • A rise and fall of the voice produced by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language.
METER • Generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
DICTION • The selection of words in a literary work. • A work's diction forms one of its centrally important literary elements, as writers use words to convey action, reveal character, imply attitudes, identify themes, and suggest values.
DENOTATION • Denotation is the literal meaning of a word, the dictionary meaning. Opposite of connotation. • Example: Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest (sleep).
CONNOTATION • Connotation is an implied meaning of a word. Opposite of denotation. • Example: Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest (burial)
METAPHOR • Metaphor comparison of two unlike things using the verb "to be. ” • Examples: He is a pig. My boyfriend is my knight in shining armor. Extended Metaphor: A comparison developed over several lines of writing
SIMILE • Simile is the comparison of two unlike things using like or as. • Example: He eats like a pig. My boyfriend is like a knight in shining armor.
MONOLOGUE • A long speech delivered by a single character and directed at other characters onstage.
TONE • The attitude a writer takes toward the subject.
SPEAKER • The imaginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem.
PERSONA • Mask or voice assumed by a writer. • When the poet is not the speaker of a poem, the poet is creating a persona.
THEME • The central message or insight into life revealed through the poem.
POINT OF VIEW • Vantage point from which a writer tells a story, or poem. • There are three possible points of view: omniscient, first person, and third person limited
MOOD • The feeling created in the reader by the poem or story.
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