Literary Elements Flashcards
Music made by the statements of the poem, which includes the syllables in the lines?
Rhythm
Basic structural make up of the poem
Meter
Smaller unit or group of lines or a paragraph in a poem?
Stanza
Similar sounding words?
Rhyme
Pattern of rhyme?
Rhyme scheme
What the poem is about;
What it means?
Theme
Use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities?
Symbolism
Appeals to all 5 sentences; visual description of an object or a scene
Imagery
When language or a point is stated in a way that is greatly exaggerated?
Hyperbole
The word choice and phrasing in a literary work?
Diction
Series of words have the same first consonant sound?
Alliteration
Repetition of consonant sounds within sentences, phrases, or in poems?
Consonance
When vowels are repeated in words that are close to each other
Assonance
A word which mimics the sound it represents?
Onomatopoeia
A literary work that ridicules its subject through the use of techniques such as exaggeration, reversal, incongruity, and/ or parody in order to make a comment or criticism about it.
Satire