Lingo Flashcards
Alliteration
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
Allusion
A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art
Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text
Ballad
A story/narrative is poetic form
Consonance
The repetition of constant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text of text
Diction
The authors specific word choice
Enjambment
This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line
Free verse
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter
Metaphor
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, such as like or as
Meter
The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poets placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line
Onomatopoeia
A word that sounds like what it means ex. Buzz, ding
Rhythm
The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged may sound slow or fast
Simile
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using words such as like or as
Stanza
A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between the sections of the poem
Symbol
An object or action that means something more than it’s literal meaning
