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Poetry. Literary Terms for Grade 10. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. “Language of the Imagination” Definition: Language based on some sort of comparison that is not Literally true. METAPHOR. METAPHOR. “Speak in imaginative shorthand” Definition:
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Poetry Literary Terms for Grade 10
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE “Language of the Imagination” Definition: Language based on some sort of comparison that is not Literally true
METAPHOR “Speak in imaginative shorthand” Definition: comparison between unlike things which some reasonable connection is instantly revealed. More forceful: uses ‘is’ to compare ideas
DIRECT METAPHOR Definition: States that something IS something else. Example: X is Y
IMPLIED METAPHOR Definition: Implies or suggests a comparison between things that have very little in common. Ways of saying something that can open our eyes to a new way of seeing the world.
EXTENDED METAPHOR Definition: A Metaphor that develops its comparison over several lines or even an entire poem. “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair”
FIGURE OF SPEECH Definition: language shaped by the play of the imagination, in which one thing is compared to something that seems to be entirely different. This is never literally true
SIMILE Definition: A figure of speech that uses the words like, as, than, and resembles to compare things that have little or nothing in common.
PERSONIFICATION Definition: When we attribute human- like qualities to a non-human thing or to an abstract idea. “The future calls”
SYMBOL Definition: An ordinary object which has extraordinary meaning attached to it. “Red roses for love” “Skull and crossbones for danger”
SYMBOLIC MEANING Definition: The deeper layer of meaning suggested by a work’s literal, or surface, meaning. “And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.”
CONFLICT Internal Conflict and External Conflict
CONNOTATION Definition: All the associations and emotions that are attached to a word. Housman’s “Loveliest of Trees”
AMBIGUOUS Definition: Allowing for opposing interpretations, or meanings. Frost’s “Mending Wall”
SPEAKER Definition: The voice that talks directly to the reader in a poem; the speaker is not always the poet. Masters “George Gray”
TONE Definition: The attitude of the writer or the speaker towardthe subject of the poem or toward the audience. Can be inferred from words and details. Hongo’s “The Legend”
IDIOM Definition: An expression that is peculiar to a particular language. It means something different from the literal meaning of each word. Clifton’s “Miss Rosie”- “I stand up”
FREE VERSE Definition: Poetry that does not have regular meter or rhyme. Usually captures natural rhythms of ordinary speech. Means: “Freedom from rules”
BLANK VERSE Definition: Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter (no rhyme pattern, 10 syllables).
SONNET Italian (Petrarchan) And English (Shakespearean)
SONNET Definition: Fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter. Italian: two parts octave(eight lines) and sestet (six) English: four parts three quatrains (four lines) and couplet (pair of rhymed lines)
IAMBIC PENTAMETER Definition: Used in Shakespeare, when each line contains five iambs and a total of ten syllables.
RHYME Definition: Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
RHYMED COUPLET Definition: A two-line unit in a poem that rhymes. In a Shakespearean sonnet, the last pair of lines( labeled gg ).
END RHYME Definition: Rhyme which occurs at the end of lines in a poem.
RHYME SCHEME Definition: A pattern of rhymed lines in a poem. This is indicated by labeling each new end rhyme with a letter of the alphabet. Example: abab cdcd efef gg (E. Sonnet)
INTERNAL RHYME Definition: Rhyme that occurs within a line or lines of poetry. “The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing,” -Shelley
