Poetry Flashcards
Alliteration
Repetition of the same first letter sounds in 2 or more words. (he bravely breache’d his boiling bloody breast)
Apostrophe
to turn away from the general audience of a work or to address a specific group/ personal thing. Often proceeded by or or oh. (oh you gods)
assonance
repetition of a vowel sounds in stressed syllables. (mellow wedding bells)
blank verse
iambic perameer without rhyme. Verse from closest to the natural rhythms of english speech
consonance
repetition of the same consonant sounds in a line of texts -sound not always the letter- middle end or beginning (grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt
connotation
meaning implied by a word apart from what it actually means (hes such a dog (shameless/ dog)
conplet
2 line of a verse that follow eachother that rhyme and have the same meter (‘tis education forms the common mind
Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined)
Denotation
dictionary definition. objective meaning. Makes sentence clearer
Diction
Specific choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, figurative language which combines to create meaning
dissonance
Deliberate use of inharmonious words
enjambment
when a sentence “steps over” a lone break into the next line without pause (and yet, by heaven, I think my lobe as rare
As she believed with false compare)
Euphemism
mild or indirect wordds replacing harsher or more direct words (“he passed away”)
extended metaphor
when a comparison between two unlike things continues longer
figurative language
describing somethiong as one thing when it is another
free verse
lines that do not rhyme, have no fixed meter