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Keywords and Definitions of Key Terms

Here are some of the keywords and definitions that you will need to know. Some of the words have no definition. Use the online dictionary listed in the Online Resources page or the dictionary to be found in the library to find the meanings - see the Reference Sources page,

Keep in mind that you will come across other vocabulary that may be new to you. If you come across new vocabulary, look it up using the resources listed in the links provided.

__Also make sure that you keep a vocabulary page in your Learning English Through Poems and Songs Journal. __ **P****oem and Song Vocabulary** (compare with denotation) || (e.g. time is money) || (e.g. a limerick has the rhyme scheme of ‘aabba’) || (e.g. She is as pretty as a picture) || Click here to go to the next page - Online Resources
 * **//Alliteration//** ||  ||
 * **// Ballad //** || a short musical narrative poem ||
 * **// Chorus //** ||  ||
 * **// Connotation //** || the image or the feelings that a word brings to mind
 * **// Couplet //** ||  ||
 * **// Free verse //** || poetry that does not have a fixed (rhyme) pattern that affects the length of the line, the organisation of the stanza or the metre ||
 * **// Haiku //** ||  ||
 * **// Imagery //** || the sense and/or pictures that words bring to mind ||
 * **// Limerick //** ||  ||
 * **// Lyrics //** ||  ||
 * **// Narrative poem //** || a poem that tells a story ||
 * **// Metaphor //** || a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things
 * **// Metre //** ||  ||
 * **// Parallelism //** || the repetition of a pattern, phrase, or structure within a poem or prose passage (e.g. “We’d live the life we choose,/We’d fight and never lose”) ||
 * **// Personification //** ||  ||
 * **// Rhyme //** ||  ||
 * **// Rhyme scheme //** || the pattern of rhyme within the poem
 * **// Simile //** || a figure of speech that directly compares two things by using //like// or //as//
 * **// Stanza //** ||  ||
 * **// Theme //** || the main idea of a poem or a piece of writing ||
 * **// Tone //** ||  ||
 * **// Verse //** || a stanza ||