Unit 3: Craft and Structure Vocabulary

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  1. poetry
    literature in metrical form
  2. language
    a means of communicating by the use of sounds or symbols
  3. rhythm
    alternation of stressed and unstressed elements in speech
  4. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
  5. structure
    the complex composition of knowledge as elements
  6. line
    a row of text written across a page or computer screen
  7. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  8. speaker
    the narrative voice of a poem (as distinct from the poet)
  9. repetition
    the continued use of the same word or word pattern
  10. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  11. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  12. denotation
    the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
  13. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  14. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  15. theme
    a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work
  16. figurative
    not literal
  17. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  18. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  19. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  20. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  21. imagery
    the use of vivid sensory language in literature
  22. narrative
    an account that tells the particulars of an act or event
  23. lyric
    a short poem of songlike quality
  24. concrete
    capable of being perceived by the senses
  25. haiku
    an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
  26. limerick
    a humorous rhymed verse form of five lines
  27. free verse
    poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
Created on Wed Feb 03 14:28:57 EST 2021 (updated Fri Jun 18 09:55:50 EDT 2021)

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