Poetry Flashcards
The repetition of usually consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables
Alliteration
A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literacy, or political significance
Allusion
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
Hyperbole
An expert that cannot be understood from the meanings of it’s separate words but must be learned as a whole
Idiom
Writing about objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our five physical sense
Imagery
The presentation of a thing with underemphasis especially in order to achieve a greater effect; understatement
Meiosis (understatement)
A word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar
Metaphor
The forming of a word (as a “buzz” or “hiss”) in imitation of a natural sound
Onomatopoeia
Representing a thing or idea as a person in art, literature
Personfication
A comparison of two unlike things, often introduced by like or as
Simile
Two elements places together that are not only similar but polar opposites
Antithesis
Omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words or clauses
Asyndeton
An inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases
Chiasmus
The use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
Irony
A figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated
Metonymy
A statement made in the form of a question with no expectation of an answer
Rhetorical question
A figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole
Synecdoche
The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usually in such a manner it applies to each in a different sense of makes sense with only one
Zeugma
Diction
Author’s use of words
Syntax
Order of words
Denotation
-Dictionary
-cannot be argued, no emotional response
Connotation
-feeling surrounding a word (emotional response)
Tone
Author’s attitude
Mood
Reader’s feelings
She broke his car and heart
Syntax
Live; parish
Antithesis
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before
Alliteration
My being late was a blessing in disguise
Idiom
“ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch”
Mercurio after he is mortally wounded by Tybalt
Meiosis (understatement)
Because I could not stop for Death-
He kindly stopped for me-
The Carriage help but just Ourselves -
And immortalized
Personfication
“I came; I saw; I conquered”
Asyndeton
-More abrupt
“all for one, and one for all”
Chiasmus
Referenced white house for president
Metonymy
Wheels = car
Synecdoche
-a part of another word
Paradox
-self contradictory
Contrary to what it expected, contains a truth
“This double chocolate is so good it’s evil”
Paradox
When there is a break at the end of a line (Any punctuation) that is…
End-stopped
The continuation (do not have a punctuation) of a sentence or clause over a line break; the thought runs on from one line to the next
Enjambment
A strong pause within a line, usually occur in the middle of a line
Caesura
Effect of Caesura
Brief silence for thought or reflection during the line, may emphasize certain words
Effect of enjambment
Thought is continuing to the following line(s) the reader beings to wonder what’s next
End-stopped effect
-brief pause
-slows reading
The correspondence between different words, or the ending of words
Rhyme
The repetition of vowel sounds (within the word)
Assonance
The repetition of initial consonant (first letter) sounds in adjacent or nearby sounds
Alliteration
The repetition of consonant sounds anywhere within sounds
Consonance
A ‘softer’, more inoffensive word or phrase, used as a substitute for one considered too harsh when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing
Euphemism
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
Anaphora
“What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil?
Anaphora
“Why, then O brawling love! O loving hate! O anything, of nothing first create!”
Oxymoron
This double chocolate ice cream is wonderfully evil
Oxymoron
A play on word
Pun
First letter of each line spells out a word or message
Acrostic poem
Narrative poem, old form of poetry, usually 4 stanzas
Ballad
Does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm
-modern poetry
-lack of rigid structure
Free verse
-famous poetic form
- rigid structure of 14 lines
Strict rhyming pattern
Sonnet
Pastoral or lyrical poem
Villanelle
3 lines with 5,7,5 syllables
Haiku
3 stanzas, 3 aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc
-strict rhyming structure
Terza Rima
Formal, often ceremonious lyric
- addresses/ celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea
- originally would have been sung
Ode
- does not contain rhymes
- 10 syllables, alternating between unstressed and stressed
Blank verse
- long grand narrative
- tells the heroic journey of a person or group of people
Epic
Silly or whimsical, short humorous story
- 5 lines
- aa, bb aa rhyming pattern
Limerick
Mournful or plaintive poem
- funeral song or lament for the dead
Elegy
