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Poetry
Definitions: Poetry - Work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm. Rhyme scheme - The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse. Assonance - In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible.
Consonance - Music the combination of notes that are in harmony with each other due to the relationship between their frequencies. Metaphor - A figure of speech. Imagery - Visually descriptive or figurative language. Personification - Making an object have human characteristics. Refrain - A repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse.
Free verse - Poetry that does not rhyme. Blank verse - verse without rhyme Repetition - repeating a verse Stanza - A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit. Quatrain - A stanza of four lines. Parallelism - The state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way.
Couplet - Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme. Near rhyme - Rhyming in which the words sound the same but do not rhyme perfectly. Internal rhyme - A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. End rhyme - The rhyme that ends the poem otherwise the last rhyme. Speaker - The person who speaks. Tone - The overall quality of a musical or vocal sound. Mood - A temporary state of mind or feeling. Irony - The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite. Connotation - An idea or feeling that a word invokes. Denotation - The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests. Form - Arrangement and style in literary. Meter - The fundamental unit of length in the metric system. Accent - A distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language. Theme - A piece of writing, a person's thoughts. Alliteration - The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
