19-37 Flashcards
A comparison of two unlike things in which one thing becomes another
Metaphor
Highly musical poem( beautiful language) that expresses the feelings or thoughts of the speaker rather than telling a story
Lyric poem
A comparison that is developed throughout the course of the work
Extended metaphor
A rhythmical pattern determined by the number of stresses or beats in each line of a poem
Meter
A poem that tells a story
Narrative poem
A formal lyric poem with a serious theme
Ode
Use of words that imitate
Onomatopoeia
Figure of speech where an animal or inanimate objects is given human characters
Personification
The speed or utterance, how quickly or slowly the language moved through the poem
Pacing
The goal or the poem
Poetic purpose
A repeated sound, word, phrase, line, or group of lines
Refrain
Repetition of sounds at the end of words
Rhyme
The rhyming of two or more words in the same line, most often in the middle and at the end of the line
Internal rhyme
Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a spoken or written language
Rhythm
The use, more than once, of a sound, word, phrase, line, etc
Repetition
A fourteen line lyric poem with a single theme
Sonnet
A group or consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unite
Stanza
The attitude a writer takes towards the subject
Tone
