Poetry Flashcards
A poem that aims to capture a mood or emotion an to make readers feel that mood or emotion.
Emotive
Short emotional poem that are personal from a single speaker
Lyrical poem
This poem aims to capture a moment and help us experience that moment sensually.
Imagistic poem
Argumentative poems do what?
Explore an idea
A poem that laments the loss if someone or something.
Elegy
Celebrates a person place thing or event
Ode
The repetition of identical or similar stressed sounds at the end of the word.
Rhyme
This type of rhyme shares the same last syllables (the last consonant and combinations). examples are cat, hat laugh, staff, refined, devine
Exact rhymes
This kind of rhyme share only the last consonant. Examples cat, hot; adamant, government
Half rhymes
This kind of rhyme looks like a rhyme because the word endings are spelled the same but the words don’t sound the same. examples are bough, through, enough, though
Eye rhymes
An important element of sound. the repetition of sounds. sound is most often found at the beginning of words but can also be found throughout words.
Alliteration example pitter patter.
A word that sounds like its meaning; the sound is the definition of the word. An example is buzz, hiss, moan and screech
Onomatopoeia
The repetition of the Vowel sound within a sentence or a phrase to create an internal rhyme
Assonance: “ or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”
The o sound is repeated within the line from the o and is assonant
The number of syllables in a line and how the stress falls on those syllables,
Meter
What is concrete poetry or visual poetry?
The type of poetry where the words create a visual effect
