poetic terminology Flashcards
Personification
Describing a non-living thing as a living being
Caesura
A break in a line formed by a full stop
Lineation
A poems arrangement of line breaks
Metaphor
A word or phrase used to describe something as if it was something else
Couplet
A pair of consecutive lines of poetry that create a complete thought or idea
Tercet
A stanza with three lines
Quatrain
A stanza with four lines
Anaphora
Words are repeated at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines
Chremamorphism
Giving the characteristics of an inanimate object to a human
Diacope
A word or phrase repeated with a small number of interviewing words
Epizeuxis
A figure of speech where the writer repeats a word or phrase in immediate succession
Assonance
The repitition of vowel sounds
Zoomorphism
Giving something, that is not an animal, animalistic characteristics
Auditory imagery
Poetic imagery that appeals to the reader’s sense of hearing or sound
Enargia
A rhetorucal term for a visually powerful description that vividly recreates something or someone in words.
Hyperbole
A word or phrase which is exaggerated for dramatic effect
Gustatory imagery
Imagery that describes taste
Allegory
A piece of writing that contains a hidden moral or political meaning
Ode
A lyric poem that addresses and praises a person, place, thing, or ideas that is not present.
Dramatic monologue
A poem written in the form of a speech of an individual character, usually written in first person
Satire
The use of humour, irony, sarcasm or ridicule to criticise something or someone
Free verse
Poetry which doesn’t use any strict meter or rhyme scheme.
Conduplication
The repetition of a word or phrase from a previous sentence or clause at the beginning of the next one.
Monostitch
A poem which consists of a single line
