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Vocabulary
Imagery – mental picture in your mind
Metaphor – saying that one thing is something else
Repetition – repeating something
Rhythm – the beat of a poem
Rhyme – words that sound the same found at the end of lines
Simile – comparing "like" or "as"
Personification – giving human traits to something that is not human
Alliteration – using the same sound at the beginning of neighboring words
Line breaks – the line of text ends. Written in shorter lines to slow the reader down.
Visual image– a mental picture; used in seeing an image
Written text- something written
Stanza – lines grouped together like a paragraph
Meter – a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Syllables – parts of a word is naturally divided
White space – the unprinted area of a painting or printed piece
Verse – one line of a poem
Ekphrastic – a poem based on a picture or work of art
Christopher Macgowan
April 17, 2015 at 4:58 pmWilliam Carlos Wiliams' poem \\"The Great Figure\\"
Just a detail: This poem is not based on a painting by Demuth, the poem came first. The painting is based on the poem. See Williams Collected Poems, Volume I.
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