LITR Flashcards
Lyrical poem, the poet either express his feelings or emotions
LYRIC POETRY
A longer form of poetry that tells an entire story, with the beginning, middle and ending. Contains all the elements of fully developed story, including plot, conflict and resolution.
NARRATIVE POETRY
Poem that use detailed words to create imagery of a person, animal, or inanimate objects.
DESCRIPTIVE POETRY
Rhyming poem containing 14 lines
SONNET
Situation on octave with the resolution in Sestet
ITALIAN SONNET
Falls into 3 quatrains and concluding couplet
ENGLISH SONNET/ SHAKESPEREAN SONNET
No required number of syllables but must have 3 lines
HAIKU
Mournful poem that traditionally mirrors the 3 stage of lost
ELEGY
Comedic, downright crude and trivial in nature kind of poem
LIMERICK
Short numerous poem contains of 5 lines
LIMERICK
Short narrative song, typically consist of 2 kinds of stanza
BALLAD
Lyric poem with varying stanza
ODE
Long narrative poem that can be long as book
EPIC
a literary technique derived from latin,
meaning “letters of the alphabet.” It occurs when two or more words are linked that share the same first consonant sound, such as “fish fry.”
Alliteration
a literary technique where the same or similar vowel sound is repeated.
Example:( the sound “o”) Go slow over the road.
Assonance
the same consonant sound repeats within a
group of words.
Example: Mike likes his new bike.
Consonance
one way a poet can create sounds in a poem.
Example: The dog growled menacingly at the strangers.
The cat meows incessantly as she pets it.
The mooing of the cows was hard to miss.
Onomatopoeia
the correspondence of two or more words with
similar sounding final syllables placed so as to echo one another
Example: day, prey, weigh, bouquet
Rhyme
a recurring movement of sound or speech. An
example is the rising and falling of someone’s voice.
Rhythm
Two things or actions are interlinked.
Simile
An implied comparison without the use of any comparative word.
Metaphor
It is called a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality)
Personification
Address of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically.
Apostrophe
Exaggeration of words is made on a statement in order to create impressiveness
Hyperbole
,we speak in a softened and milder form to give the expression of unpleasant thing
Euphemism
It is a short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle
Parable
Statement made is directly contradictory to the reality/ the opposite of literal meaning
Irony
a word is substituted for another word that it is closely associated with
Metonymy
a phrase that uses two contradictory words to create a new meaning.
Oxymoron
a statement that appears to contradict itself but contains some truth, theme, or humor.
Paradox
tells the events of the story that happen before
the present story.
Backstory