Midterm Flashcards
Personification
Giving humans qualities to an abstract idea
Stanza
A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of poem
Villanelle
A French verse form consisting of five-three line stanzas and a final quatrain
Sonnet
A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
Enjambment
When a phrase, a clause, or a sentence, in a line of poetry doesn’t finish at the break but spills over into the next line
Alliteration
Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stresses able in a line of verse
Caesura
A break in a conversation, a line of verse, or a song
End-stopped
Opposite of enjambment, pause comes at the end of a syntactic unit
Couplet
2 successive lines in a verse
Iamb
Foot containing unaccented and short syllables followed by a long and accented syllable in a single line of a poem
Apostrophe
Punctuation mark used in Contractions to replace missing letters
Authenticity
Quality of being genuine or real
Images
The way things or ideas seem in your mind or in art or literature
No forced rhymes
Should not force rhymes because it could affect the poetry
Useless beauty
The idea that a poem can exist just because it’s beautiful
Narrative poetry
Tells a story
Rule breaking
Breaks the rules of a poetic form to make a point or emphasize a part of the poem
Haiku
Three line poem where the first line has five syllables, the second has seven, and the third has five
Generalization
Taking something specific and applying it more broadly
Specificity
Opposite of generalization, every detail is given
