Poetry - Jones

The feeling the words establish and imply; is often tied to the setting.

• Irony

• Mood

• Tone

• Theme

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Similar to symbolism, but instead of objects that represent ideas, these are people or entire stories that represent ideas.  Such a figure is a character in a story that represents something intangible and abstract.

• Metaphor

• Allegory

• Hubris

• Allusion

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

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An intentional break midway through one line of poetry. The break could be an endmark such as a period, exclamation point, or question mark. It could also be a hyphen.

• Hubris

• Irony

• Linebreak

• Caesura

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Saying one thing but meaning the opposite, usually to draw attention to an unjust thing.

• Irony

• Hubris

• Mood

• Tone

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A set of lines of poetry set apart from the other lines. We often think of this as a “paragraph” in a poem.

• Stanza

• Theme

• Caesura

• Hubris

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CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.4

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A 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter (10 syllables per line) with a specific rhyme scheme: ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG; the ending is called a rhyming couplet. The turning point is often at line 8; the final epiphany in the last two lines.

• Caesura

• Stanza

• Allusion

• Sonnet

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 The actual literal meaning (dictionary meaning, and also called the denotative meaning, or the denotation of a word.

• Theme

• Figurative Level

• Literal Level

• Point of View

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The word for a tangible object (especially one with vivid imagery) that represents an intangible idea, feeling, or concept, far beyond its literal meaning. It can succinctly communicate complicated, emotionally rich ideas.

• Irony

• Stanza

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

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 This term refers to a phrase that has a figurative meaning as well as a literal meaning; the writer’s directly stated comparison between two things that are not literally the same thing. 

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Mood

• Allegory

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

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This is a human frailty many writers explore: it is the kind of overreaching, excessive pride that leads to a person’s eventual downfall. The word comes from the Greek Theater.

• Linebreak

• Theme

• Tone

• Hubris

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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