Poetry Notes

Literature written in meter/verse, follows a particular flow of rhythm and meter

• Mood

• Free Verse

• Poetry

• Symbol

the dictionary definition of a word

• Conotation

• Figurative meaning

• literal meaning

• Denotation

the implied or suggested meaning connected with a word

• Allusion

• Connotation

• Rising meter

• Denotation

associative or connotative meaning; representational

• True rhyme

• Figurative meaning

• Literal meaning

• Poetry

limited to the simples, ordinary, most obvious meaning

• Poetry

• Figurative meaning

• Literal meaning

• oxymoron

measured pattern of rhythmic accents in a line of verse

• hyperbole

• rising meter

• Falling meter

• Meter

Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse

• Rhyme

• Meter

• Foot

• Symbol

occurs exactly on one stressed syllable (i.e. car, far)

• Meter

• True rhyme

• Two syllable rhyme

• Slant rhyme

uses words of more than one syllable and occurs when the accented syllable rhymes (i.e. knuckle, buckle)

• Rhyme

• Slant rhyme

• Meter

• Two syllable rhyme

occurs when words sound very similar but do not correspond in sound exactly

• meter

• Slant rhyme

• two syllable rhyme

• true rhyme