Lit terms (poetry) Flashcards
Cliche
overused expression (hearts are broken)
Alliteration
The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.
End-stopped
A line of poetry that concludes with any sort of punctuation
Elegy
a lyric poem that laments the dead.
Enjambment
A run on line of poetry that logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
Free verse
poetry without a regular pattern of meter and rhyme.
Internal rhyme
a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next
metaphor
The comparison of two unlike things without using like or as “love is a battlefield”
narrator
the voice and implied speaker of a fictional work to be distinguished from the actual living author
narrative poem
a poem that tells a story
personification
the awarding of human attributes to nonhuman things
similie
comparison of unlike things using like or as
stanza
the grouping of poetic lines
