Poetry Flashcards
what is elegy
someone dies
what is ode
praise to something
what is a long story told in verse form
narrative
what is a brief personal poem that is musical and uses sound devices
lyric
what is a type of poem that meant to be sung and tells a story
ballad
what is a simile
2 dissimilar things that are compared using like or as
what is a metaphor
2 dissimilar things that are compared without using words such as like or as
what are the 3 types of metaphor
direct
implied
extended
what is personification
giving human qualities to something non human or inanimate
what is apostrophe
adressing something non human as if it were human
what is a reference to a person or thing from previous literature? what is one example ?
literary allusion
shakespeare, Bible, mythology
what is hyperbole
using exaggeration for emphasis, not to be taken literally
what is irony
meaning the opposite of what is said
what is contrasting ideas, balancing or contrasting one thing against another for effect (knowledge is power and power is knowledge)
antithesis
what is using a part of something to represent the whole thing
(all hands on deck)
synecdoche
what is a substitution of one word for another closely related word
metonymy
what is an apparent contradiction that proves to be true; a situation that seems like it doesnt make sense but when you actually think about it, it does make sense
poor little rich girl, human race
paradox
what is a symbol
something concrete used to represent something that cant be touched
tree representing life
what is alliteration
repetition of consonant sound (has to be first letter or consonant) in 2 or more words in a line of a verse
consonance
repetition of consonant sounds that arent at the beginning of words
assonance
the repetition of vowel sounds in 2 or more words with different consonant sounds
onomatopoeia
use of words that imitate the sounds they define
what are the 3 reasons to use repetition
sound
emphasis
memorization
what is the repetition of one or more phrases at the end of a stanza
refrain
what is a group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a unit
stanza
what are the different types of rhyme
perfect, imperfect (slant), eye, end, internal
what is an imperfect rhyme
words that sound similar but are not exactly the same
what is an eye rhyme
rhyme that depends on spelling rather than sound, look like they should rhyme but dont
what is an end rhyme
end of line in 2 or more lines
internal rhyme
rhyme that occurs within one line of poetry
what is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry called
rhythm
what is a pattern of repeating stressed and unstressed syllables called
meter
what is a foot??
unit of meter
what are the 6 types of feet
iambic trochaic spondaic pyrric anapestic dactylic
what does iambic foot contain
unstressed/stressed
what does trochaic foot contain
stressed/unstressed
what does spondaic foot contain
stressed/stressed
what does pyrric foot contain
unstressed/unstressed
what does anapestic foot contain
unstressed/unstressed/stressed
what does dactylic foot contain
stressed/unstressed/unstressed
what is poetry
a rhythmic and patterned form of expressive ideas and words which have a certain and imaginative theme
