Poetry Anthology: Flashcards
What is a Caesura?
A definite break in the middle of a line of poetry typically indicated by a punctuation mark
What is an Allusion?
An indirect reference to another text
What is an Alliteration?
The repetition of a consonant sound in words that are close to one another
What is a Speaker?
The one who speaks the poem
What is a Couplet?
A pair of lines usually rhyming
What is Tone?
The general mood/emotions conveyed by the poem or the speaker’s attitude
What is Iambic Pentameter?
A verse meter with ten syllables following a pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables
What is a Stanza?
A group of lines within a poem
What is Syntax?
The arrangement of language and order of words within sentences or lines of poetry
What is Assonance?
The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words
What is Enjambment?
When a sentence or phrase continues from one line to the next
What is a Volta?
The turning point in a sonnet
What is a Sonnet?
A love poem of 14 lines often used by Shakespeare
What is a Simile?
Figurative language comparing one thing to another often using like or as
What is Personification?
A device where inanimate things or abstract ideas are written as if they are human
What is Free Verse?
A type of verse that has no set metrical or rhyming pattern
What is Anaphora?
The repetition of a word or group of words at the beginning of several lines
What is a Quatrain?
A stanza of four lines
What is a Conceit?
An elaborate extended metaphor
What is Parallelism?
A literary device base d on repetition of words, phrases, or sentence structures
What are Connotations?
Associations or feelings evoked by a word in addition to its literal meaning
What is a Dramatic Monologue?
A poem written in the form of speech by a single character
What is Onomatopoeia?
A word that sounds like what it means e.g. ‘mumble’ or ‘splash’
What is Fin de Siècle?
A term meaning ‘end of the century, but usually refers to the end of the
19th century.
Thought to be a period of social degeneracy: literature was interested in Gothic ideas and cultural decay, art found beauty in perversion, symbolism and egocentricism
