ENG 101- Terminology Flashcards
Alliteration
The repetition of initial stressed, consonant sounds in a series of words within a phrase or verse line. Alliteration need not reuse all initial consonants; “pizza” and “place” alliterate.
Allusion
A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement. (often from the Bible)
Anaphora
Often used in political speeches and occasionally in prose and poetry, anaphora is the repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines to create a sonic effect. EG. The repetition of “I have a dream” in Martin Luther King Jr’s speech
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants. Sometimes called vowel rhyme.
“between trees” “great flakes” “leaping deep”
Concrete poetry
poetry in which the poet’s intent is conveyed by graphic patterns of letters, words, or symbols rather than by the meaning of words in conventional arrangement.
Consonance
A similarity in sound between 2 words, or an initial rhyme. Consonance can also refer to to shared consonants when in sequence “bed and bad” or inversed “bud and dab”
End-stop
Ends at grammatical boundary or break such as dash or closing perenthesis- or with punctuation such as a colon, semicolon, period, or completion of a phrase.
Endjambment
running-over of a sentence/phrase from one poetic line to the next, w/o terminal punctuation; the opposite of end-stop
Free-Verse
Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech. A regular pattern of sound or rhythm may emerge in free-verse lines, but the poet does not adhere to a metrical plan in their composition.
Lyric Poem
feelings or meditations of a single person.
fairly short poem expressing the mood, feelings, or characteristics of a person.
Metaphor
A comparison that is made directly without pointing out a similarity by using words such as “like,” “as,” or “than.”
Onomatopoeia
A figure of speech in which a word imitates its sound. “choo-choo” buzz”
Personification
A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person.
Rhyme
The repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a verse line. Rhymed words conventionally share all sounds following the word’s last stressed syllable.
End rhyme vs. Internal rhyme
End rhyme is at the end of a poetic line, and internal rhyme is harder to spot within the line.
Perfect rhyme
Cat, hat, bat
Near/Slant-rhyme
close enough. like son/song
Eye-rhyme
Through/rough
simile
A comparison (see Metaphor) made with “as,” “like,” or “than.”
Action Text
Physical language of the play
Character
A person in a play; also refers to their characteristics, personality, motives, and actions
Classical unities
unity of action (the plot must be unified so that every scene contributes to it), unity of place (setting should be in a single location), and unity of time (all happen in one day).
