Poetry I Terms

What is alliteration?

• The repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses

• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words

• The repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words.

• An exaggeration for effect.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

What is an allusion?

• Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea

• Words that trigger your imagination to recall and recombine images, memories, or mental pictures

• A play on words

• A reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

What is anaphora?

• The repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses

• Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea

• A statement that seems untrue on the surface but is true nevertheless.

• Juxtaposed words with seemingly contradictory meanings

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

What is anastrophe?

• Sentence which uses a conjunction with NO commas to separate the items in a series

• Inversion or reversal of the usual order of words

• The omission of conjunctions between related clauses.

• A statement that seems untrue on the surface but is true nevertheless

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What is apostrophe?

• The repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses

• Inversion or reversal of the usual order of words

• A play onw words

• Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

What is assonance?

• The repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words

• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words

• The repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses

• Any repetition of words

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

What is asyndeton?

• An entity referred to by one of its attributes or associations

• Sentence which uses a conjunction with NO commas to separate the items in a series

• The omission of conjunctions between related clauses

• An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is caesura?

• A break between two words in a metrical foot

• Clauses that wrap around over two or more poetic lines

• An exaggeration for effect

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

What is connotation?

• A statement that seems untrue on the surface but is true nevertheless

• Juxtaposed words with seemingly contradictory meanings

• The dictionary definition of a word

• The implied meaning of a word in contrast to its directly expressed "dictionary meaning"

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is double denotation?

• When a word has two “dictionary definitions”

• The dictionary definition of a word

• The implied meaning of a word in contrast to its directly expressed "dictionary meaning"

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4