English Test Flashcards
Alliteration
The repetition of constant sounds of the beginning of words
Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Allusion
A reference to a real of fictional person, event, place, or work of art
Example:
Flowers are her kryptonite
Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text
Example: She seems to beam rays of sunshine with her eyes of green
Ballad
A story/narrative in poetic form
Consonance
The repetition of consonant sounds (not vowels) in a chunk of text
Example: Traffic figures, on July Fourth, to be tough.
Diction
The authors specific word choice
Example: Using colour instead of color
Enjambment
When one line continues to another without any pause (periods)
Free verse
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter
Hyperbole
The use of exaggeration for a specific event
Example: I slept like a rock last night.
Imagery
The pictures or images created by words
Example: I could hear the popping and crackling as mom dropped the bacon into the frying pan
Internal Rhyme
Rhyme that occurs without a line of poetry
Metaphor
Comparison between two things without using connecting words such as “Like” or “as”
Example: you threw me under the bus
Meter
Measured arrangement of beats in a poem, including the number of syllables per line
Example: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Onomatopoeia
The making and using of words in which the sound imitates the sense
Example: “boom” of a firework exploding, the “tick tock” of a clock
Personification
Giving inanimate objects, animals, or abstractions human qualities.
Rhyme Scheme
The rhyming pattern of the line ends of a poem.
Example: The sun is shining brightThis is a lovely sight.
Rhythm
The flow of stressed and unstressed sounds in poem
Example: T’was the Night Before Christmas
Simile
Comparison between two things using connecting words, such as “Like” or “Than”
Example: Fast as a bull
Stanza
A group of lines separated by space (Often called a verse)
Symbol
An object or action used to represent something beyond It’s literal meaning.
Theme
The central meaning or dominant message the pset is trying to deliver to the reader.
Tone
Attitude taken by the speaker in the poem (example, serious deliver to the reader)
Typography
The arrangement of words on a page
Example: Words that are shaped into the shape in an icecream cone
