Intro To Poetry Test Flashcards
pertains to sounds, noises, music, or the sense of hearing. (This kind of imagery may come in the form of onomatopoeia).
Auditory imagery
pertains to odors, scents, or the sense of smell.
Olfactory imagery
pertains to flavors or the sense of taste.
Gustatory imagery
relates to the sense of touch. It is one of the seven types of sensory images used to create description in writing
Tactile imagery
- time and place in which the story takes place
Setting
- a literary device where two or more words in a phrase or line of poetry share the same beginning sound. The words can be adjacent or can be separated by one or more words.
Alliteration
- a figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things. Unlike a metaphor, it draws resemblance with the help of the words “like” or “as.” Therefore, it is a direct comparison
Simile
: The comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as
Metaphor
: a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.
Allusion
: a statement that contradicts itself and still seems true somehow
Paradox
: a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.
Juxtaposition
: is a literary device that is used step by step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story. … The final part shows how others in the story respond to the character’s personality.
Characterization (indirect and direct)
: can be defined as style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer.
Diction
: derived from a Greek word meaning “over-casting,” is a figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis. It is a device that we employ in our day-to-day speech.
Hyperbole
: the angle of considering things, which shows us the opinion, or feelings of the individuals involved in a situation
Point of View
: is a figure of speech in which a thing – an idea or an animal – is given human attributes. The non-human objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings.
Personification
: a literary device that can be defined as a technique in which a writer ascribes human traits, ambitions, emotions or entire behavior to animals, non-human beings, natural phenomena or objects.
Anthropomorphization
: refers to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly. Words carry cultural and emotional associations or meanings in addition to their literal meanings or denotations.
Connotation
: in written composition, is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience
Tone
: a literary device is when a speaker breaks off from addressing one party and instead addresses a third party. This third party may be an individual, either present or absent in the scene. It can also be an inanimate object, like a dagger, or an abstract concept, such as death or the sun.
Apostrophe
: defined as a word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing. It creates a sound effect that mimics the thing described, making the description more expressive and interesting. … In addition to the sound they represent, many onomatopoeic words have developed meanings of their own.
Onomatopoeia
: It means a small or little song or lyric. In poetry, it has 14 fourteen lines and is written in iambic pentameter. Each line has 10 syllables. It has a specific rhyme scheme and a “volta” or a specific turn
sonnets
: is a fixed form poem consisting of five tercets and a quatrain and also follows a specific rhyme scheme using only two different sounds. A tercet is a stanza with only three lines, and a quatrain is a stanza with four lines.
villanelles
: a poem or song in the form of elegiac couplets, written in honor of someone deceased. It typically laments or mourns the death of the individual.
elegies
: 1 a :a literary work (such as a poem or play) dealing with shepherds or rural life in a usually artificial manner and typically drawing a contrast between the innocence and serenity of the simple life and the misery and corruption of city and especially court life
pastoral poetry
: A kind of poem devoted to the praise of a person, animal, or thing. An ode is usually written in an elevated style and often expresses deep feeling
Ode
: consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd
Petrarchan sonnet
: The rhyme scheme of the quatrains is abab cdcd efef. The couplet has the rhyme scheme gg. This sonnet structure is commonly called the English sonnet
Shakespearean sonnet
Shift in focus
Volta
