Poetry+vocab

Poetry Vocab
 * 1) prose – regular writing; paragraphs and sentences. Ex.: stories, essays, newspapers
 * 2) poetry – intense language; the best words in the best order
 * 3) verse – another word for poetry. In a song, the part that isn’t the repeated chorus. It may tell the story.
 * 4) stanza – a part of the poem set apart by a blank line
 * 5) paraphrase – to put into other words without changing the point of view
 * 6) free verse – poetry with no rhyme or meter
 * 7) repetition – to say something more than once
 * 8) metaphor – a comparison between two things. Ex.: He is a bear.
 * 9) simile – a comparison using “like,” “as,” or “seems.” Ex.: He growls like a bear.
 * 10) meter – the rhythm of a poem
 * 11) metric foot – one unit of rhythm in a poem that might be repeated, made up of stressed and unstressed beats.
 * 12) rhyme – words that have similar ending sounds
 * 13) imagery – using words to describe an experience of the senses
 * 14) literal meaning – what the poem means on the surface
 * 15) figurative meaning – a deeper meaning within the poem
 * 16) denotation – dictionary definition of a word. Ex.: Fog is droplets of moisture suspended in the air.
 * 17) Connotation – other associated meanings of a word. Ex: He wandered into the fog thinking about his job prospects. (confused and lost)
 * 18) Cliché – an overused expression
 * 19) Allusion – a reference to a story outside the one you’re reading
 * Literary
 * Biblical
 * Historical, popular culture, etc.
 * 20. personification – giving human traits to something non-human. Ex.: The blackberries grabbed my hat when I walked by the river.
 * 21. Symbol – something that exists in a story and also carries a deeper meaning. Ex.: Lennie hurts little mice, but the mice also symbolize everything that can get hurt and everything that can go wrong.
 * 22. Alliteration – repetition of __beginning__ consonant sounds. Ex.: many mumbling mice.
 * 23. Consonance – repetition of any consonant sounds, not just at the start of words
 * 24. Assonance – repetition of vowel sounds
 * 25. Onomatopoeia – a word that sounds like what it means: ding, crash, zip, slap.
 * 26. End rhyme – when rhyming words all occur at the ends of lines
 * 27. internal rhyme – when one or more of the rhyming words occurs somewhere besides the end of a line
 * 28. exact rhyme – words that perfectly rhyme at the end. Regular rhyme
 * 29. slant rhyme – words that don’t quite rhyme.