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POETRY TECHNICAL TERMS
English Literature
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ALLITERATION
Repetition of the initial letters of words
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ANAPEST
The unit of rhythm that has 2 light beats followed by a strong
beat
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
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ANTITHESIS
Two contrasted things or ideas
Many are called, but few are chosen
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APOSTROPHE
Talking to someone as though they were present
On me your voice falls as they say love should
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ASSONANCE
The repetition of vowel sounds
On a proud round cloud in high white night
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BATHOS
Suddenly going from the elevated to the ordinary for comic effect
Once we had something that was pure, and unadulterated and wonderful. What
happened? We spent it all
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CADENCE
Falling to rest or closing of a phrase
It had not done so then, and could not now
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CAESURA
Pause in the middle of a line through punctuation
As when she played them first. But, even more
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CARICATURE
Exaggeration as in a cartoon
Small-statured cross-faced tribes
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CLICHE
Well-worn words and phrases which have lost their impactLove at first sight
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DACTYL
A rhythmic unit of one strong beat followed by two weak beats
Just for a handful of silver he left us
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DIDACTIC
Setting out to teach or give moral guidance
Never such innocence again
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EMPIRICIST
Inclined to trust the evidence of the senses rather than theory
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FOOT
A unit of rhythm in literature, equivalent to a bar in music, consisting of stressed and
unstressed syllables
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HALF RHYME
An imperfect rhyme; two words which almost rhymemade/mate
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HUMANIST
Someone who rejects supernatural beliefs
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IAMB
A rhythmic unit having a weak followed by a strong beat
I am a teacher with a happy smile
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IMAGERY
Figurative language which appeals to the senses
Slack hammocks of waves below
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INVERSION
Changing the order of wordsRemoved lives loneliness
clarifies
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LACONIC
Short but to the point
Home is so sad
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METAPHYSICAL
Very theoretical, difficult to understand
How separate and unearthly love is
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NIHILISM
Rejection of all morals and standards
Someone had used a knife or something to stab right through the moustached lips of
her smile
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PARODY
Imitating something with exaggeration to make it look
absurdNo one can deny that Arnold is less selfish
than I
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PATHOSQuality of writing that can induce
pityTo cry, was hard
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PENTAMETER
A line that contains five rhythmic units
The dog is eating ham with eggs and chips
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SARDONIC
With a hint of bitterness
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SATIRE
Holding up wickedness or foolishness to ridicule
He married a woman to stop her getting away now she’s there all day
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SPRUNG RHYTHM
Having the same number of beats in each line but varying the number of unstressed
syllables
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TETRAMETER
A line with four units of rhythm
Because I could not stop for death
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TROCHEE
A rhythmic unit having a strong beat followed by a weak beat
Double double toil and trouble
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ZEUGMA
Connecting words that have very different meanings
Confetti and advice were thrown