Poetic Terms Flashcards
A repeated word or phrase at the beginning of a successive clause or sentences used for emphasis
Anaphora
Paired opposites
Antithesis
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
Alliteration
A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.
Allusion
repetition of vowel sounds
assonance
An idea or feeling that a word invokes beyond its literal meaning; figurative
Connotations
Repetition of consonant sounds in a text.
Consonance
the literal meaning of a word; dictionary definition.
Denotation
Word choice (consider connotations)
Diction
A rhyme that occurs at the end of a line of verse
End Rhyme
Occurs when one line ends without a pause or punctuation and continues onto the next line.
Enjambment
Poetry that doesn’t rhyme or have a measurable meter.
Free Verse
Rhymed words that occur within a single line of verse.
Internal Rhyme
A figure of speech comparing two things that DOES NOT use “like” or “as”
Metaphor
The measured arrangement of sounds in a poem including the poet’s placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line.
Meter
