Poetic Terms Flashcards
Once more you open the door
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Allusion
And in the air the fireflies
Our only light in paradise
We’ll show the world they were wrong
And teach them all to sing along
Repetition of 1 sound (the a in this)
Assonance
A harsh mixture of sounds
Cacophony
Rap rejects my tape deck, ejects projectile
The combination of notes that are in harmony with each other due to the relationship between their frequencies
Consonance
She was a little tense
The notice made no sense
A pair of lines of metre in poetry. Two lines that rhyme and have the same metre
Couplet
On a starry winter night in Portugal
Explaining picture or what the song sees
Imagery
Cry me a river
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
Hyperbole
BOOM
Sounds
Onomatopoeia
They do not seem the happiest couple around.
To avoid saying the easiest sentence possible (they seem sad)
Litotes
‘Cause, baby, you‘re a firework
Come on, show ’em what you‘re worth
the comparison often connects with themes, popular gossip of the time, or connects to other songs.
Metaphor
A reoccurring line in a song
Motif
My alarm clock yells at me every morning
a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes
Personification
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King’s horses, And all the King’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again!
a repetition of similar sounding words occurring at the end of lines in poems or songs.
Rhyme
I went to town to buy a gown
Internal rhyme
Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade how cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood
Blood and blade
Approximate rhyme
