Poetry Element Flashcards
Poets attitude or point of view toward the subject of the poem
Tone
A song which tells a story
Ballad
Haiku
A Japanese verse containing three lines
Rhyme scheme
The pattern of rhymes used in a poem
Repetition of a sound in two or more words (the fun ferret followed)
Alliteration
Blank verse
Consists of lines with no rhymes and closest to the natural rhythm of the English language
Epic
A lengthy narrative poem on which action characters and language are on a heroic level
Hyperbole
And exaggeration for providing emphasis example: he moved at a snails pace cry me a river
Verse that lacks regular meter and line lengthy relies upon natural rhythms
Free verse
The reader is aware of something that the character is not aware of
Dramatic irony
Imagery
The forming of mental images
Correspondence in the sound created by two or more words in the same line of first; rhyme falling in the middle as well as the end of line
Internal rhyme
Short subjective poem that expresses a state of mind or process about the authors innermost thoughts and feelings
Lyric
Simile
A comparison using the words like or as example: her cheeks are as red as roses space her eyes sparkle like diamonds
To mean the opposite of what is said
Verbal irony
Metaphor
When a comparison is made by saying one thing is another example: she is nothing but a butterfly contentment is a pearl of great price
Assonance
The repetition of a vowel sound example; mad as a Hatter sap dash
Stanza
Like a poem paragraph
Onomatopoeia
A word that suggest its own sound example: hisss, boom, crash, buzz, hum
A kind of metaphor that assigns personal attributes to an inanimate things example: the wind sobbed the engine coughed
Personification
A figure of speech in which an absent or dead person is dressed as if he were president or in which an inanimate object animal or quality is is dressed as if it were a person example: Littlebrooke I still hear your voice Rome thou has lost the breed of noble man
Apostrophe
Words arranged close together beginning with the same letter example: the silent sea Peter piper
Alliteration
Consonance
The repetition of a final consonant sound the repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after different vowels example: first and last short and sweet
The opposite happens to what was expected
Situational irony
