English 9 Unit: Poetry Flashcards
Poetry that uses techniques of drama, specifically dialog
Dramatic
A type of poem in which the first letter of each line spells something
Acrostic
Poetry that has shape
Concrete
Poetry that tells of heroes; a long naritave poem
Epic
Poetry that expresses thoughts, observations or feelings of a single speaker
Lyric
Poetry that tells a story
Narrative
14 lines of iambic pentameter
Sonnet
A sonnet organized by 3 quatrains and a couplet usually with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg
English/Shakespearean
A sonnet organized by octave followed by a sestet usually with a rhyme scheme of abbaabba cdecde
Italian/Petrarchan
The repetition of initial consonant sounds
Alliteration
A type of reference
Allusion
Word choice
Diction
Poetry without rhyme or meter
Free verse
A word that sounds the same as another but has a different meaning
Homophone
A figure of speech that contains an implied comparison, it does not is “like” or “as”
Metaphor
A metaphor that continues to be developed throughout a literary work such as an entire story of poem
Extended Metaphor
Regular rhythmic pattern; the “ beat “ of a poem
Meter
Giving human characteristics to something not human
Personification
A blend of two words and their meanings
Portmanteau
A comparison using like or as
Simile
A formal division of lines in a poem
Stanza
The act of marking a poem’s meter
Scansion
Words rhyme at the ends of lines of poetry
End
Words rhyme within the same line of poetry
Internal
