Poetic Terminology Flashcards
What is:
Alliteration
Assonance
Colloquial
Polemic
Didactic
Enjambment
Caesura
Hyperbole
When the first letter of a word is repeated in words that follow
The same vowel sound is repeated but the consonants are different (eg he passed her a sharp, dark glance)
Language that is used in speech with an informal meaning
Writing that carries a moral message
Writing intended to teach or instruct
No ends/stops on a line in poetry
Break in the rhythm
Exaggerating for effect.
Irony
Oxymoron
Pathos
Repetition
Rhyme
Tone
Word Choice
Anaphora
Epiphora
Dramatic monologue
The humorous/sarcastic use of words or ideas, implying the opposite of what they mean
Where two words (normally not associated) are brought together
Language that evokes feelings of pity or sorrow
The repeating of a word or phrase to achieve a particular effect
The way that words sound the same at the end of lines in poetry
The writer’s tone/voice/atmosphere/feeling that pervades the text
A common thread in the author’s choice of language
Repetitions of beginnings
Repetitions of endings
Where a speaker addresses an internal listener or the reader.
Heroic Couplet
Envoi
Masculine Rhyme
Feminine Rhyme
Poetic Licence
Phonetically
Free verse
Iamb
Foot
Two successive rhyming lines of iambic pentameter
The final stanza/line that summarises the message of power
Stressed at the end
Unstressed at the end
Allowing the writer/poet to stretch reality for the poem
Saying a word as it sounds
Has no rhyme scheme/fixed meter
A metrical foot in poetry
A unit of stressed and unstressed syllables that determines what we call the meter, or rhythmic measure, in the lines of a poem.
Monosyllabic
Iambic dimeter
Iambic trimester
Iambic tetrameter
Iambic pentameter
Iambic hexameter
Volta
Sibilance
Ballad
Sestet
A word or sound made up of just one syllable
2 iambs per line
3 iambs per line
4 iambs per line
5 iambs per line
6 iambs per line
Change in tone/rhythm
Repetition of words with “s”
A poem that tells a story (often a love story)
Six lines of poetry.
Poetic licence
Anaphora
Epiphora
Authors putting liberty into reality to make a point
Repetitions of beginnings
Repetitions of endings
