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Figurative Language and Poetry Terms

Figurative Language and Poetry Terms. Alliteration. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. EX: While I nodded, nearly, napping, suddenly there came a tapping. . Assonance. The repetition of vowel sounds within words.

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Figurative Language and Poetry Terms

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  1. Figurative Language and Poetry Terms

  2. Alliteration • The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. • EX: While I nodded, nearly, napping, suddenly there came a tapping.

  3. Assonance • The repetition of vowel sounds within words. • EX: On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.

  4. End Rhyme • Similar or identical sounds at the end of two lines of poetry. • EX: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore! Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”

  5. Internal Rhyme • Rhyme within a line of poetry • EX: Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.

  6. Repetition • Words repeated within a line of poetry. • EX: From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore.

  7. Form • The way words are arranged in lines, the way lines are arranged in stanzas, and the way units of sound are organized in rhythm and rhyme. • Two kinds of form: Fixed and Irregular.

  8. Fixed Form • Follows fixed (unchanging) rules. • Limited number of lines • Fixed meter • Fixed rhyme scheme • Definite structure Examples: Sonnet, ballad, epic, elegy, ode, blank verse

  9. Irregular form or free verse • No rules- takes whatever shape it wants.

  10. Anaphora • The same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines. • EX: Or I guess the grass is itself a child Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic

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