Poetry Features Flashcards
Apostrophe
a literary device in which the speaker addresses either an absent person or a non-human object, idea, or being
Ballad
a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next.
Blank verse
poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter
Symbols
a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.
Line lengths
Line lengths
Rhyme
Rhyme
Rhythm
movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions
Caesura
a break between words within a metrical foot
End-stopped
having a pause at the end of each line
Enjambment
incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning ‘runs over’ or ‘steps over’ from one poetic line to the next, without punctuation
Epic
a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the past history of a nation
Free verse
any form of poetry that does not rely on consistent patterns of rhyme and meter
Lyric
a short poem, often with songlike qualities, that expresses the speaker’s personal emotions and feelings
Meter
the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse
Motif
a dominant or recurring idea in an artistic work
