Poetry Flashcards
1
Q
euphony
A
pleasant sounds
2
Q
sonnet
A
14 line poem
3
Q
personification
A
giving human like qualities to non-human things
4
Q
quatrain
A
4 lines
5
Q
volta
A
line 9 change
6
Q
motif
A
repeated literary device that contributes to a theme
7
Q
speaker
A
narrator of a poem
8
Q
diction
A
word choice
9
Q
/
A
stressed
10
Q
u
A
unstressed
11
Q
mood
A
atmosphere
12
Q
seplet
A
7 lines
13
Q
elegy
A
poem written to honor a death
14
Q
octave
A
8 lines
15
Q
couplet
A
2 lines
16
Q
onomonopeia
A
sound words
17
Q
tercet
A
3 lines
18
Q
sestet
A
6 lines
19
Q
allusion
A
reference to something well known
20
Q
cinquain
A
5 lines
21
Q
pentameter
A
5 feet
22
Q
Shakespearean/English sonnet rhyme scheme
A
A B A B C D C D E F E F G G
23
Q
ode
A
poem elevating the addressed subject
24
Q
metaphor
A
direct comparison
