Poetry - Terminology
6A - Much Ado about Nothing: Questions
                                                                                                       Poetry Terminology
 
Use the linked websites to find definitions and examples (if possible) for the italicized poetry terminology on this page. Then add these to the literature section of your notebook.
 
You will need to know these so that you can be an active participant in classroom discussions AND so that you will do well on the poetry test!
 
Poetry types:
          Lyric
 
          Narrative
 
          Dramatic
 
Meter:
          Iambic                                     
 
Trochaic
 
          Dactylic
 
          Anapestic
 
          Spondaic
 
          Pyrrhic
 
Rhyme:
          Masculine                                                    Feminine
 
          End                                                             Internal
 
Musical Devices:
          Onomatopoeia                         
 
Cacophony                                                  Euphony
 
          Alliteration
 
          Assonance                                                   Consonance
 
Lines:
          End-stopped                                      
          Run-on
 
          Caesura
 
Figures of Speech:
          Simile                                      
 
Metaphor
 
          Personification
 
          Allusion
 
          Synecdoche
 
          Metonymy
 
          Hyperbole
 
          Lytotes
 
Apostrophe
 
Antithesis
         
Paradox
 
Oxymoron
         
Irony
 
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