Literary Terms 10 Flashcards
Metonymy
Use of something closely relate for thing actually meant
Synecdoche
Use of part for the whole
Aubade
Song sung by lovers parting at dawn
Internal Rhyme
Rhyme which includes one or more rhyming words within a line of poetry
Onomatopoeia
Use of words with sounds that suggest their meaning
Consonance
Repetition of close intervals for final consonants sounds of accented syllables or important words
Allegory
Narrative or description having second meaning with extended symbolism of characters, settings, themes
Carpe diem
Seize the day; characteristic of lyric poetry which advises reader or person addressed by speaker to enjoy the pleasures of the moment
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Imagism
Poetic movement of 1900s led by Ezra Pond which valued use of fresh, exact, concrete images in verse