Glossary Flashcards
What is alliteration?
Repetition of identical consonant sounds
What is an allusion?
Unacknowledged reference
What is an anaphora?
Repetition of a word or phrase throughout one’s work
What is assonance?
Repetition of identical vowel sounds
What is a ballad?
A narrative poem composed of quatrains
What is blank verse?
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is caesura?
Short pause used for effect
What is a couplet?
2 successive rhyming lines
What is diction?
Level of formality used by a speaker
What is a dramatic monologue?
Where a speaker addressed a reader live
What is enjambment?
Line ending with no punctuation, running over to the next line
What is hyperbole?
Exaggeration for effect
What is iambic pentameter?
Line of poetry made up of 5 “iambs”
What is a metaphor?
Comparison between two different things
What is a metaphysical conceit?
An extended metaphor or simile that links 2 unrelated fields together
What is an octave?
First 8 lines of a Italian or Petrarchan sonnet
What is onomatopoeia?
Blending of sounds that imitates an action
What is a paradox?
Something or someone having contradictory qualities
What is personification?
When non-human things gain human characteristics
What is a Petrarchan sonnet?
A sonnet divided into an octave and sestet
What is a rhyme?
Repetition of syllables in different words
What is a sestet?
6 line stanza
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
A 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter
What is a simile?
Comparison between two things
What is a sonnet?
14 lines using iambic pentameter
What is a stanza?
Poetic lines that form a paragraph
What is syntax?
Word and sentence structure
What is a volta?
“Turning” point of a sonnet
