POETRY Flashcards
Poetry terms :)
Stanza
a group of lines in a poem (paragraphs are stanzas in poetry)
Speaker
voice or character behind the poem.
- “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, “ Robert Frost wrote the poem BUT the “I” in the poem is called the speaker*
Alliteration
Many mumbling mice are making merry music in the moonlight
Anaphora
repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a line.
In every cry of every man, In every Infant’s cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban,
Assonance
matched vowels are the same, but the consonants are not the same.
Go slow over the road. (repetition of the long “o” sound)
apostrophe
when the speaker addresses a person or abstract idea/being/thing that is not present.
Your mom promised you a cookie in your lunch - when you open it and it isn’t there you yell, “MOM! Nooo!”
Blank Verse
Metrically thought (has poetic structure) but no rhyme
free verse
less structured, more organically
end rhyme
rhymed sound at the end of the line
Once upon a midnight dreary,
While I pondered, weak and weary.
rhyme scheme
a repeated pattern of end rhymes; usually marked with letters of the alphabet
ABBA would mark a rhyme scheme in the first stanza of, say, dog/man/plan/fog; CDDC would mark a rhyme scheme in the second stanza of, say, map/press/dress/slap).
implied metaphor
comparison is not as direct – more implied and subtle
*…whose eyes were always covered with the bruised petals of her lids.” *
