Poetry Vocabulary
Connotation: Emotional impact attached to words beyond their literal
meaning.
Paraphrase: Putting something into your own words. In poetry, you lose
the musical quality and rhyme
Prose: The ordinary form of written language. Everyday speech.
*Personification: Giving human qualities or characteristics to inanimate
objects or animals.
Narrative poem: A poem that tells a story in poetic form. Contains plot,
setting, characters, etc. Relies on rhythm and rhyme. Organized in stanzas.
Stanzas: Groups of lines that form units in a poem.
Ballad:
A Narrative poem that tells a simple and dramatic story. Intended to be sung or
recited. Has strong rhythms and rhymes.
*Juxtaposition: The placing of two images or ideas side by side allowing
the reader to make the comparison. Not a direct comparison.
Rhythm: A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the
lines of a poem. Usually contributes to meaning.
Lit 7 - Tuesday, March 24 - Drama vocab test on costuming - flash-pot:
Costuming: The way the characters are dressed. Can be used to create
mood, illusion, and set the piece in a particular time.
Plot: What happens in the story, may not be sequential. Has to
hold the audience’s attention, visually interesting.
Theme: A universal truth about people – the things they do, the
way they are, that can be applied to your life. Not a dippy moral.
Infer: A reasonable conclusion one can draw from facts or
evidence given.
Aside: A character speaks directly to the audience. Through
asides, characters in a play reveal directly to the audience their thoughts or
other characters’ thoughts. Usually delivered in confidence pretending that
other characters cannot hear.
Nota Bene, N.B.: Note well. Used to call attention to something
important.
Flash-pot: A device that creates a burst of fire and smoke that
creates a magical effect.
