Imagery

Below are the literary device definitions you will need for the Imagery Unit.

Imagery Unit Vocabulary

1. Anaphora: repetition of an opening word or phrase in a series of lines

2. Apostrophe: A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present

3. Aubade: a poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about parting lovers at dawn

4. Cacophony: a harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds

5. Euphony: a smooth, pleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of words

6. Extended Figure: A figure of speech (usually metaphor, simile, personification, or apostrophe) sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem

7. Imagery: the representation through language of sense experience Representation of a sound = auditory of a smell = olfactory of a taste = gustatory touch = tactile internal sensation = organic movement or tension in muscles or joints = kinesthetic

8. Masculine rhyme: a rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel sound is in the final syllable of the words involved

9. Metonymy: a figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience

10. Synesthesia: presentation of one sense experience (imagery) in terms usually associated with another