Poetry Flashcards
1
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Stanza
A
A structural section of a poem (like a paragraph)
2
Q
Speaker
A
Narrative voice of poem
3
Q
Tone
A
Speakers attitude towards the subject
4
Q
Conceit
A
Extended metaphor that applies to many characteristics of the poem
5
Q
Allusion
A
Reference to an historical event or person from history
6
Q
Hyperbole
A
Exaggeration
7
Q
Perfect rhyme
A
Rhyme that falls at the end of two or more lines
8
Q
Internal rhyme
A
Rhyming within the same line
9
Q
Couplet
A
Two consecutive lines that rhyme
10
Q
Alliteration
A
Repition of initial consonant sounds
11
Q
Eye rhyme
A
Spelling of words that appear to rhyme but don’t
12
Q
Onomatopoeia
A
Words that sound like what they mean
13
Q
Scansion
A
Rhyming patterns in letter (a,b,a,b()
14
Q
Sonnet
A
Fourteen line poem
