"Defined Term"

"Defined Term"

1.)Poetry-is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response. Poetry has been known to employ meter and rhyme, but this is by no means necessary. Poetry is an ancient form that has gone through numerous and drastic reinvention over time. The very nature of poetry as an authentic and individual mode of expression makes it nearly impossible to define.

2.)Rhyme- a piece of verse, or poem, in which there is a regular recurrence of corresponding sounds, esp. at the ends of lines.

3.)Rhythm-flow, movement, procedure, etc. characterized by basically regular recurrence of elements or features, as beat, or accent, in alternation with opposite or different elements or features the rhythm of speech, dancing, the heartbeat, etc.

4.)Form- the shape, outline, or configuration of anything; structure as apart from color, material, etc.

5.)Stanzas-a group of lines of verse forming one of the divisions of a poem or song: it is usually made up of four or more lines and often has a regular pattern in the number of lines and the arrangement of meter and rhyme.

6.)Free Verse- poetry without regular meter, rhyme, or stanzaic forms.

7.)Repetition- the act of repeating; a doing or saying again, or again and again.

8.)Imagery- images generally; esp., statues.

9.)Figurative Language-To communicate clearly, students must be able to identify and use.

10.)Simile- a figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another, dissimilar thing by the use of like, as, etc. (Ex.: a heart as big as a whale, her tears flowed like wine).

11.)Metaphor-a figure of speech containing an implied comparison, in which a word or phrase ordinarily and primarily used of one thing is applied to another (Ex.: the curtain of night, “all the world's a stage”).

12.)Personification-a personifying or being personified person or thing thought of as representing some quality, thing, or idea; embodiment; perfect example he is the personification of honesty a figure of speech in which a thing, quality, or idea is represented as a person.

13.)Speaker- a person who speaks; esp., a person who makes a speech or speeches in public the officer presiding over any of various lawmaking bodies the presiding officer of the U.S. House of Representatives.

14.)Theme-a topic or subject, as of a lecture, sermon, essay, etc.a recurring, unifying subject or idea; motif, often one used decoratively