Poetry Flashcards
euphony
pleasant sounds
sonnet
14 line poem
personification
giving human like qualities to non-human things
quatrain
4 lines
volta
line 9 change
motif
repeated literary device that contributes to a theme
speaker
narrator of a poem
diction
word choice
/
stressed
u
unstressed
mood
atmosphere
seplet
7 lines
elegy
poem written to honor a death
octave
8 lines
couplet
2 lines
onomonopeia
sound words
tercet
3 lines
sestet
6 lines
allusion
reference to something well known
cinquain
5 lines
pentameter
5 feet
Shakespearean/English sonnet rhyme scheme
A B A B C D C D E F E F G G
ode
poem elevating the addressed subject
metaphor
direct comparison
enjambment
running on of a line or stanza
hyperbole
overexaggeration
cacophony
harsh sounds
persona
speakers character
Italian/Petrarchan sonnet rhyme scheme
A B B A A B B A C D E C E D
simile
comparison using like or as
tone
attitude
ballad
simple, narrative, written in quatrains, has a refrain
stanza
group of lines
aubade
love poem at dawn that bids farewell to a beloved
meter
pattern of beats in poetry
masculine rhyme
end rhyme (1 syllable)
symbol
represents something else
iamb
unstressed, stressed
theme
main idea
alliteration
repeating consonant sound
apostrophe
direct address to person/object that is not present
feminine rhyme
two syllables rhyme with the first unstressed
anapest
unstressed unstressed stressed
blank verse
non rhyming iambic pentameter
free verse
non rhyming verse
monometer
1 line
dimeter
2 feet
trimeter
3 feet
tetrameter
4 feet
pentameter
5 feet
hexameter
6 feet
heptameter
7 feet
octameter
8 feet
nanometer
9 feet
trochee
stressed unstressed
dactyl
stressed unstressed unstressed
spondee
stressed stressed
Spenserian sonnet rhyme scheme
A B A B B C B C C D C D E E
villanelle
6 stanzas (five tercets and 1 quatrain)
internal rhyme
occur within the line
lyric
highly personal and emotional, reflective in tone
dramatic monologue
relates an episode in a speakers life through a conversational format
