Poetry Terms

Front

This refers to the way a poem is presented to the reader.

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Structure

Front

This is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience.

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Tone

Front

This is the underlying message that the writer or artist wants to convey.

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Theme

Front

This is when a poet repeats the beginning consonant sounds of words.

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Alliteration

Front

This is the repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text or poetry.

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Assonance

Front

This is a pleasing sound caused by the repetition of consonant sounds within sentences, phrases, or in poems.

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Consonance

Front

This is repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas.

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Repetition

Front

This is when an author constructs parts of a sentence to be grammatically similar.

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Parallelism

Front

This is an idea or feeling that a word may hold that is in addition to its main meaning.

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Connotation

Front

This is the strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color.

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Denotation