2.14 Vocab Review

juxtaposition

• • comparison of two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”

• • when two things are placed close together to create a contrasting effect

• • descriptive language that invokes any of the five senses to create a set of mental images for the reader

alliteration

• • a technique in which successive phrases or lines begin with the same words

• • repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

narrative poem

• • tells a story, often using elements of a narrative such as narrator, plot, setting, and characters

• • Japanese poem, composed of three lines and seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count, and often focuses on images from nature

• • fourteen-line poem written in one stanza, traditionally in iambic pentameter and it must have a formal rhyme scheme

onomatopoeia

• the use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to (such as boom or splat)

•  the technique of repeating the same word or phrase multiple times within a poem

rhyme scheme

• the ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a poem

• a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable

• • the repetition of sounds at the ends of words

free verse

• poem that does not rhyme or contain a structured meter

• poem in which words are spelled out through the first letter of each line

personification

• • when an idea or object is given human attributes and/or feelings as if it were human

• • when contradictory statements or situations reveal a reality that is different from what appears to be true

• • a combination of two words that appear to contradict each other

• • repetition in vowel sounds in words that don’t end with the same consonant

speaker

• • the attitude of the speaker or author as interpreted by the reader

• • the voice behind the poem; the character or narrator saying the poem