Monday; Poetry Terms♥

Alliteration- Te repetition of an initial consonant sound.

Anaphora- The repetition of the same word or phrase at the begining of succesive clauses or verses.
              ( Contrast with epiphora and epistrophe.)

Antrithesis- The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in a balanced phrases.

Apostrophe- Breaking off discourse to address some abset person or thing, some abstract quality, ananimate object, or a nonexistent character.

Assonance- Identify or similiarity in soound between internal vowels in neighboring words.

Chiasmus- A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced againts the first but with the parts reversed.

Euphemism- The subtitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit.

Hyperbole- An extravagant statement; the use of axaggerated terms fot the pupose of the emphasis or heightned effect.

Irony- the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or sistuation where the meaning is contracticted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.

Litotes- A figure of speech consiting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating opposite.

Metaphore- An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have soething important in common.

Metonymy- A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is subtituted for another with which it is closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by reffering to tings around it.

Onomatopoeia- The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.

Oxymoron- A figure of speech in shich incongrous or congtracdictory terms appear side by side.

Paradox- A statement that appears to contradict itself.

Personification- A figure os speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.

Pun- A play onb words, something on different sense of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound or different words.

Similie- A stated comparison ( usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentlly dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.

Synecdoche- A figure of speech in which a part is used to represented the whole (for example, ABC's dor alphabet) or the whole for a part (" England won the World Cup in 1996")

Understatement- A figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.