Literary Terms Poetry English 9 Mrs. Williams • Irony- A situation, or use of language, involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy
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Literary Terms Poetry English 9 Mrs. Williams Irony- A
situation, or use of language, involving some kind of incongruity
or discrepancy
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Difference: Tone and Mood Tone The writers or speakers attitude
toward his subject, his audience, or himself; the emotional
coloring, or emotional meaning, of a work Mood The emotional
feeling or atmosphere in a work of literature, sometimes created by
descriptions of the setting.
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Figurative Language Language employing figures of speech;
language that cannot be taken literally or only literally Simile
Metaphor Personification Sound Device Onomatopoeia
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Simile A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is
made between two things essentially unlike. The comparison is made
explicit by the use of some such word or phrases as like, as,
similar to, resembles, or seems.
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Metaphor A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is
made between two things essentially unlike. It may take one of four
(4) forms 1.That in which the literal term and the figurative term
are both named 2.That in which the literal term is named and the
figurative term is implied 3.That in which the literal term is
implied and the figurative term named 4.That in which both the
literal and the figurative terms are implied.
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Personification/Onomatopoeia Personification- A figure of
speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object
or concept. Onomatopoeia-The use of words that supposedly mimic
their meaning in their sound Example: boom, click, pop
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Repetition of Sounds: Consonance The repetition at close
intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or
important words. Examples: book - plaque - thicker
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Repetition of Sounds: Assonance The repetition at close
intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important
words. Examples: 1. hat - ran - amber 2. vein - made
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Repetition of Sounds: Alliteration The repetition at close
intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or
important words. Examples: map-mood kill-code, preach-approve
Important words and accented syllables beginning with vowels may
also be said to alliterate with each other inasmuch as they all
have the same lack of initial consonant sound. Examples Inebriate
of air am I
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Rhyme Scheme Any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole
poem or its stanzas Internal Rhyme Slant Rhyme External Rhyme (End
Rhyme)
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Internal and External (End) Rhyme Internal Rhyme: A rhyme in
which one or both of the rhyme- words occur WITHIN the line.
Example: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and
weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As
of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some
visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door Only this, and
nothing more. Edgar Allan Poe External (End) Rhyme: A rhyme in
which the rhyme-words occur at the END of the line. Example: Whose
woods these are I think I know, His house is in the village,
though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up
with snow. -Robert Frost E
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Slant and Exact Rhyme Slant Rhyme: A rhyme in which the rhyme
words approximate identical sounds Example: There-were, main-again
Example: Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all. Emily
Dickinson Exact Rhyme: A rhyme in which the rhyme words have
identical sounds Example: There-stare, main-sprain Example: Hold
fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That
cannot fly. Langston Hughes