Poetic Terminology Flashcards
Allegory
A story/poem/picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning.
Typically moral/political
Blank verse
A poem with no rhyme but does have iambic pentameter
Imagery
Visually descriptive/ figurative language
Meditative poetry
Combines the religious practice of meditation with verse
Romanticism
Poetry of the Romantic era 1700s Great change: -decline in monarchy -more liberty -medical findings
Stress
Emphasis that falls on certain syllables and not others
Metre
Basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in a verse
Apostrophe
A figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person/idea/thing
This is seen less in 20th century poetry
Conceit
Kind of metaphor
Compares 2 very unlike things in a surprising clever way
Ode
Form of lyric poetry
Not very lengthy
Usually praising something
Metonymy
Type of metaphor
Object used to describe something closely relative to it
Eg instead of ‘power of king’
‘The crown’
Rhyme scheme
Pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem
Symbolism
Use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them a symbolic meaning that are different for their literal sense
Archaism
Means beginning/ancient
Phrase/word considered outdated
Elegiac
Sad poem
Usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead
Loco-descriptive
Genre of poetry that describes and often praises a landscape/place
Pentameter
5 strong metrical feet/beats
Speaker/persona
Character taken on by a poet to speak in a first person poem
Tetrameter
A line of 4 metrical feet
Ballad
A poem/song narrating a story in short stanzas
Extended metaphor
Comparison between 2 unlike things
Continues through lines in the poem
Lyric poetry
Has musical rhythm
Topics often explore romantic feelings/other strong emotions about
Personification
Giving a non human, human characteristics
Stanza
Group of set lines in a poem
Trimeter
Meter/lines that consists of 3 iambic feet
Iamb
UnAccented syllable followed by accented syllable
Eg unite
Anaphora
Deliberate repetition of the first part of a sentence