Poetry Flashcards
Metaphor
Compares 2 things.
Simile
Compares 2 things with like or as
Personification
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Hyperbole
An outrageous statement
Symbolism
an artistic and poetic movement or style using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind.
Alliteration
Tong twisters
Connotation
Emotional suggestion,of a word
Line
Poetry is written in lines
Stanzas
Grouping of lines
Onomatopoeia
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
Allusion
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly.
Denotation
the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
Repition
Repeated was,a sound
Rhyme
Repetition of a sound that rhymes
Assonance
Repition of vowel sounds
