| Glossary of terms alliteration a sound effect caused by the "ehetition Stressoq Conga Petition of sea blank verse unthymed five-stres ant Song ; s Seq, Vow Is S lines, Principally of; 89 pentameters); Milton's Paradise Lost and most of g in blank verse 'Y Of ia, ic - rs Metre (ia Akespeare, Plays are assonance a sound effect Consisting of the rey caesura a pause ina line of Poetry, usualh and indicated by a strong J Mitte depende ‘ Nt o} Punctuation, Mark N the Sen; Se of th lng connotation the secondary Meanings an, @Ss0ciations SUgpe, bya particular word or Phrase, ag PPosed to denotation oe tothe Tey onary mea couplet two lines of the same metre Which thyme Meg denotation connotations elegy a formal Poem lamenting the deat th of a Particular Person epic along narrative Poem, usually celebrating Some aspect identity of a People; Dante's Divine Comedy and Milton’s Pa di examples of epic Poems epic simile a simile extending ove; comparison is described at great le eye rhyme a pair of syllables which appear to the eye as though they thyme, but which do not, ‘ such as ‘have’ and “wave figurative language Non-literal exp ae ideas and feelings; includes such figures as simile, metaphor and personificati form either the appearance of poetr structure of the Pp 'y on the page or a way of referring tothe eM ~ its division into stanzas, etc. T several lines, » in which the object of ngth should ressions used to convey more vividly certain freeverse poetry that has no regular rhythmic pattern (metre) hyperbole a typ e of figurative language consisting of exaggeration ot overstatement term is a0 applied ‘imagery vivid description of an object ora Cay and metaphor figurative language, particularly to examples 0lossary of vice whereby the apparent meaning of elem de a . < reaning itis really intended to convey PhTase or passage is dterey ny on them atype of poelty that is a personal statement evoking a Iain ein Mood oF expressing por a type of figurative language in which ia atest wth Something else One thing is described in way tha netre the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed sy m i 1 several lines of poetry lables that we hear over mood the dominant feeling evoked by the words, images a ina poem iges and other devices used onomatopoeia a word or group of words whose sound su; such as ‘hiss’ or‘murmur’ iggests its meaning, pastoral a highly conventional poetic form which celebrates the wi shepherds and other country people rates the world of personification when a poet refers to an inanimate object or an abstract quality as though it were a living person : quatrain a four-line stanza or group of lines, usually rhyming rhyme the repetition of the last stressed vowel sound in a word together with any unstressed sounds that follow, as in gate, late, and cover, lover; there are special terms that describe different kinds of rhyme (see notes in ‘Reading and enjoying poetry’) rhyme scheme the pattern of rhymed endings of lines within a stanza or short poem; the first rhymed sounds can be labelled a, the second b, and so on rhythm. the recurrence of groups of stressed and unstressed syllables in lines of poetry (see notes in ‘Reading and enjoying poetry’) to run swiftly beyond the end he meaning leads yo i and the sense, as in these run-on lines lines in which e line to complete the syntax of the line and into the next lines from ‘OF Higue’ (p.159): You think | wouldn't rather take my blood seasoned in fat black-pudding, like everyone else?a ‘Glowsary alter 328 tae gs EC ee ee Glossary of ter simile a figure of speech in which an explicit comparison i things, using ‘ike, P| is made between two sonnet a form of poem almost always consisting : g of 14 five- ; two main types of sonnet are the English or Shakespeetesrl sieed lines; the by its final couplet), and the Italian or Petrarchan sonnet, ae (distinguisheq 2 ing of a grou 1p of eight lines (the octave) followed by a group of six lines (the sestet) 2stet, ‘as or ‘than’ stanza a group of lines forming one of the divisions of a pos em stress refers to the prominence o1 is gi 1 emphasis given to certai ; ! p rtain we when they are spoken; stress is a prominent feature of English es E Sales ech and there- fore of the rhythm of poetry in English synecdoche a figure of speech in whi i ich a part is used i for a class, or the reverse of these, for example, ‘$5 He eae eee psi Per person’ tercet a li three-line stanza or a group of three lines within a stanza or a poem tone the poet's attitude or tone of voice; ne gives a 10 hor tone of voice; the tone gi the poet ey t 5 gives a clue as t poem 'o be read, or reinforces other aspects of the poem's meaning (see te i fes in ‘Reading and enjoying poetry’)