Tuesday, 6 December 2011

Poetry Norms

Similies: Comparison using like or as
Metaphor: Comparison not using like or as
Hyperbole: Exageration for dramatic purposes
Alteration: words that follow one another and begin with the same consonant
Consonance/Assonance
Meter: Where the emphasis is on the poetry
Denotation: What it says
Connotation: What it implies
Allusion: A reference
Poet/Speaker: Poet = author, speaker = narrator
Vulta: A shift in energy in the poetry
Repition: Repeating for effect
Rhyme: Two words that rhyme
Personification: Giving human like qualities to a non-human object
Onomatopoeia: A sound that sounds like the word
Stanza: A collection of lines of poetry
Hiku: Three lined poem
Limerick:i.e. there once
Sonnet:
Prose:

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