Poetry Flashcards
Figurative language
Language used for descriptive effect, offten to imply ideas inccorectly
Lyric Poetry
Poetry that expresses strong personal feelings about an object, person, or event
Ryme scheme
The pattern of ryme formed by the end of the rymein a stanza or a poem.
Narritive poetry
Verse that tells a story
Onomotopoeia
The use of a word that imatates sound
Imagery
Descriptive languege that uses the five senses
Metaphor
A figure of speech that compares or equates two seeminly unlike things
Personification
A figure of speech in which an animal, object, or force of nature, or an idea given a human form
Hyperbole
A figure of speech that uses exaggeration
Simile
A figure of spech that uses like or as
Idiom
An expression that means something different to its litteral meaning
Alliteration
The repetiion of constant sound
Consonance
The repitition of constant sounds
Assonance
The repition of vowel sounds
Diamante Poem
Diamond shaped poem using a certain rule