Glossary of Poetry

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POETRY
A poem is a composition made of rhymes and rhythm.
• Accent: the prominence or emphasis given to a syllable in a word.
• Alliteration: repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words.
• Anaphora: repetition of the same word at the beginning of different verses.
• Antithesis: it consists into contrasting or combining two terms, phrases, or clauses with opposed or antithetical meanings.
• Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds within a short passage of verse and with different consonants.
• Beat: where the accent fall on; it can be strong or weak
• Blank space: space that divide two stanzas.
• Couplet: minim group of lines.
• Enjambment: the breaking of a syntactic unit (a phrase, clause or sentence) by the end of a line or between two verses; is a line ending in which the syntax, the rhythm, and thought are continued in the subsequent line/s. It is also called run-on-line.
• Free verse: unmetered and often irregularly long, unrhymed verse that depends on variation in rhythm, repetition, typographical or grammatical oddness to achieve its effects. It tends to follow the flow of thoughts, refusing any constraint or convention.
• Hyperbole: exaggeration.
• Image: basic device of poetry used to illustrate an idea, an object or an action by appealing to the senses.
• Internal: sound similar to rhyme.
• Irony: stating something by saying another quite different or opposite thing.
• Metaphor: rhetorical trope defined as a direct comparison between two seemingly unrelated subjects. Typically, a first object is described as being or having the properties of a second object. In this way, the first object can be economically described because implicit and explicit attributes from the second object can be used to fill in the description of the first.
• Metonymy: substitution of a word normally associated with something for the term that usually meaning that thing (ex: “big-sky country” for Canada).
• Metre: artificial manipulation of the rhythmic possibilities of the language.
• Onomatopoeia: imitation of the sounds of the natural or real world through words that evoke them.
• Oxymoron: expression impossible in fact but not necessarily self-contradictory.
• Paradox: rhetorical figure of meaning used to state something through a self-contradictory phrase or sentence.
• Parallelism: rhetorical device in which words, phrases, or similar ideas share a similar syntactical structure. This create an immediate comparison between them.
• Refrain: lines that are repeated more than once inside a poem.
• Rhyme: repetition of the same or similar ending sounds in the last word in two or more lines.
Rhyme schemes:
▪ AABB couple rhyme
▪ ABAB alternated rhyme
▪ ABBA enveloped or enclosed
▪ ABAC o ABCB unbounded or ballad
▪ CDE CDE interlaced rhyme
• Rhythm: sense of movement obtained by: line length (number of syllables), number of beat (where the accent fall on and if it is strong or weak) and rhymes.
• Simile: figure of speech in which the subject is compared to another subject; we have the comparison between attributes of two different objects connected by the word “like” (between two names) or “as” (if I compare two adjectives).
• Syllables: can be from two to fourteen.
• Synecdoche: figure of meaning where the part stands for the whole.
• Synesthesia: the use of different senses in describing something.
• Stanza: group of lines linked together into thematic, metrical, rhetorical or narrative sections.
POETRY GENRES
• Ballad: poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated refrain.
• Dramatic monologue: representing itself as a speech made by one person to a silent listener, usually not the reader.
• Elegy: lament written for a dead person.
• Free verse: typical of modern poetry, it doesn’t follow any rules.
• Heroic
• Historical romance
• Hymn: poem praising God or other divine being or place, often sung.
• Lyric and song
• Ode: poem of high seriousness with irregular stanzaic forms
• Oration
• Sonnet: lyric poem that is 14 lines long. Italian (or Petrarchan) sonnets are divided into two quatrains and a six-line “sestet,” with the rhyme scheme abba abba cdecde (or cdcdcd). English (or Shakespearean) sonnets are composed of three quatrains and a final couplet, with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. English sonnets are written generally in iambic pentameter.

ANALISI
1. To guess the historical period from the title and makes considerations.
2. To identify the genre.
3. To identify: ▪ number of stanzas;
▪ lines in each stanza;
▪ rhyme scheme;
▪ rhetorical figures;
▪ figures of sound.
4. To talk about the poem in his general content.
5. To identify and to describe the most important stanzas.

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