Glossary

Glossary

simile || a comparison using "as" or "like" || alliteration || the deliberate repetition of consonant sounds || assonance || deliberate repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds || apostrophe || an address to a person absent or dead or to an abstract entity || diction || poet's distinctive choices in vocabulary || echo || repetition of key word or idea for effect || hyperbole || exaggeration for dramatic effect || metaphor || a comparison not using as or like when one thing is said to be another || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">onomatopoeia || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">"sound echoing sense"; use of words resembling the sounds they mean || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">oxymoron || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">a seeming contradiction in two words put together || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">paradox || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">seeming contradiction that surprises by its pithiness || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">personification || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">attribution of human motives or behaviours to impersonal agencies || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">rhyming couplet || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">a pair of lines which end-rhyme expressing one clear thought || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">rhyme || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">repetition of same sounds || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">rhythm || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">internal 'feel' of beat and metre perceived when poetry is read aloud || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">tone, mood || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">feelings or meanings conveyed in the poem ||