Poetry Literary Vocabulary - CKLA

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Describing non-human things as if they had human qualities.

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personification

Front

a poem about the craft of poetry

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ars poetica

Front

words that end in the same sound or sounds

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rhyme

Front

a four-line stanza

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quatrain

Front

The pattern of repeated rhyming words in a poem

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rhyme scheme

Front

When the same form is repeated in a series of lines or stanzas.

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parallel structure

Front

A poetic form with nineteen lines and a set pattern of repeating lines and rhyming words.

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villanelle

Front

A comparison that is not made directly

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implied metaphor

Front

An indirect reference to an outside work of art or a cultural figure.

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allusion

Front

a figure of speech in which words typically used to describe one thing are used to describe something else in order to suggest a likeness

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metaphor