Poetry Breakdown Flashcards
________Poem does not rhyme
Free verse
A _________ uses imagery to express a feeling and uses rhythm, regular meter, and rhyme.
Lyrical Poem
Verse is one line of poem.
Verse
_________is created when two words have the same ending sounds.
Rhyme
The average word has three component parts: sound, denotation, and connotation.
Word Components
In ________ the comparison is expressed by the use of some word or phrase such as like, as than, similar to, resembles or seems; in metaphor the comparison is implied
Simile
__________consists in giving the attributes of a human being to an animal, an object, or a concept.
Personification
________, which consists in addressing someone absent or something non-human as if it were alive and present and could reply to what is being said.
Apostrophe
A________ is an apparent contradiction that is nevertheless true.
Paradox
________, saying the opposite of what one means, is often confused with sarcasm and with satire.
Verbal Irony
The term ________always implies some sort of discrepancy or incongruity: between what is said and what is meant, or between appearance and reality, or between expectation and fulfillment
Irony
The term________ refers to any wave like recurrence of motion or sound
Rhythm
The________is the metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured
Foot
A line that ends with a stressed syllable is said to have a masculine ending and a line that ends with an extra syllable is said to have a feminine ending
Masculine/Feminine
A pause within a line is called a ________
Caesura
The third unit, the________, consists of a group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout poem
Stanza
________ is made up of unrhymed iambic parameter lines
Blank Verse
________ is a lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead
Elegy
________ is a brief, pointed, and witty poem of no prescribed form.
Epigram
________is a five-line poem in which lines 1, 2, and 5 are anapestic trimeters and lines 3 and 4 are anapestic dimeters, rhymed as aabbaa. Possible source of origin is ________, _________
Limerick
Limerick, Ireland
________is a poem of emotional intensity and expresses powerful feelings.
Lyric
________, English in origin, is a poem of indefinite length, divided in 10-line stanzas, rhymed, with different schemes for each stanza – ababcdecde, written in iambic meter.
Ode
________is a fourteen line poem.
Sonnet
