Unit 4 Poetry

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Couplet

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Two consecutive lines of poetry.

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Diction

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The choice of words used by a speaker or writer.

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Figurative Language

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Language that uses figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, and personification for poetic effect rather than for precise, factual meaning.

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Humanism

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A movement during the Renaissance that emphasized secular (non-religious) ideas and concerns, based on classical studies.

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Imagery

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Language that creates a mental picture by appealing to the senses, making readers see, hear, smell, taste, or feel things in their imagination.

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that suggests or states a comparison between two unlike things, without using such words as like or as.

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Meter

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The arrangement of words in poetry based on rhythm, accents, and the number of syllables in a line.

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Narrative Poem

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A poem that tells a story.

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Octave

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A stanza of eight lines in a poem.

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Personification

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Giving human qualities to a thing or abstraction.