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Class Notes: Poetry Key Terms
This document contains poetry terms. The subtopics include figurative language prevalent in poetry, Poetic structure, and poetic sounds
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portrayal of a concept, trait, or notion embodied by a human figure in art
Answer: Personification
2.
dramatic language, description, or speech that isn’t meant to be taken at face value, but is rather used to stress another concept
Answer: Hyperbole
3.
a specific characteristic of a person, object, emotion, or situation is minimized or portrayed as less significant than it actually is
Answer: Understatement
4.
a rhetorical device that replaces a characteristic, concept, or item connected with a particular thing in place of the thing itself
Answer: Metonymy
5.
a form of phrase or expression whose meaning cannot be deduced by simply defining the individual words it comprises
Answer: Idiom
6.
a word or phrase that can be interpreted in two or more different ways
Answer: Double Entendre
7.
a segment of language that divides a poem, operating on principles separate from and not always aligned with grammatical structures (like sentences or clauses within sentences)
Answer: Line
8.
a group of lines that form the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; also known as a verse
Answer: Stanza
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a way of arranging phrases where the same pattern of words is used to show that two or more words/ideas are equally important in a sentence, and the words and phrases not only match in structure but also in tense
Answer: Parallel Structure
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the purposeful continuation of a sentence or clause across a break and/or line
Answer: Enjambment
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