Poetry Flashcards
Lines:
– The way poets arrange words into lines
– They may or may not be sentences
Stanza:
– Group of lines in traditional poetry
Free verse:
Poems that do not usually rhyme and have no fixed rhythm pattern, they are written like a conversation.
Figurative language:
– Words and phrases that help the reader picture things in a new way.
Example: She heard music when he kissed her.
Simile:
– Meaning likeness
– A comparison using like or as
Example: Her smile was bright like the sun
Metaphor:
– Meaning to carry over.
– Subs us to to new idea for the original and is often direct and strong.
– An implied comparison between two unlike things.
Example: his face is a puzzle to me, I can never figure out what he is thinking
Personification:
Giving human qualities to an animal/object.
Example: The house glowed with happiness.
Symbolism:
– When a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in it’s self also represents or stands for something else
Idiom:
– Unique to a culture
– Expression where the literal meaning of the words is not on any of the expression. It means something other than what it actually said.
Example: It’s raining cats and dogs.
Hyperbole:
– Obviously and intended exaggeration.
Example: There are a million people in here!
Rhyme:
– Sounds that are alike either inside words or the end of the word.
Rhyme scheme:
– First line as always, “A” then anything else that rhymes with it.
– A single stanza with no second line under it will be lowercase.
Rhythm:
– The beat of the poem.
– A pattern of strong and weak syllables
Alliteration:
– Constant sounds repeated at the beginning of words.
– Has to be in the single line.
Example: If Peter piper picked a peck of…
Assonance:
– Repetition of vowel sounds inside a word.
