Exam #2 Flashcards
A list of vocabulary terms from Chapters 5-9.
Epigram
A brief, pointed, and witty poem.
Limerick
A poem that consists of five predominantly anapestic lines rhyming AABBA; lines 1, 2, and 5 contain three feet, while lines 3 and 4 contain two.
Haiku
A Japanese form poem in which the first line is 5 syllables, the second is 7 syllables, and the last is 5 syllables (17 syllables).
Parody Poem
A humorous imitation of another, usually serious, work.
Symbol
An object, a person, a place, an event, or an action that represents something else.
Irony
A technique that reveals a discrepancy between appears to be and what is actually true.
Theme
A central idea or meaning of a poem.
Satire
Ridiculing a folly or vice in a literary work in order to expose or correct it.
Alliteration
The repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words.
Assonance
The repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby words.
Rhyme
A way of creating sound patterns.
Eye Rhyme
The spellings are similar, but the pronunciations are not, as with bough and cough, or brow and blow.
End Rhyme
In which rhymes come at the end of lines.
Internal Rhyme
In which one of the rhymed words is placed within the line.
Rhythm
The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds.
