Poetry Key Terms Flashcards
Similie
The words “as” or “like” refering to something different LIKE it.
Metaphor
This is a term that uses “show not tell” and it refferes to something without directly linking them, so without using the words: “like” or “as”.
Caesura
A slight pause between the middle of the line.
Enjambment
A sentence that could run through a stanza, keeping the same idea.
Tone
This is the kind of voice you can be listening to; you could think of this as a certain type of vibe.
Tonal shift
Tonal shift is when the tone or the mood of the scene in the writing takes a quick change.
Iambic Pentameter
The simple answer is no particular rhyme structure so the answer would be A,A B,B or A,B A,B and many more.
Personification
Personification is giving human or animal like qualities to non-living objects/things for example:
‘The sun smiled’ or ‘The cactus opened his mouth’.
Alliteration
When two short words with the same starting letter come close together and make a phrase like this: ‘The slimy snake…’ or ‘The sun smiled’.
Rhyme scheme
A rhyme scheme is an iambic pentameter and it is multiple rhymes that runs throught the whole poem and can constist of AA, BB and many more.
(AA rhymes together and BB rhymes together).
Rhythm
You want your poem to continue at a certain pace and you don’t want to change it unless theres a certain tonal shift.
Repitition
It can be where you use two words that mean the same thing and they have to be in close proximity for example: ‘slowly, carefully’.
Onomatopoeia
It consists of words like ‘POW’ and ‘BAM’.
Slang
Slang is a very informal language and it’s vocabluary used between different people.
Colloquial language
It’s an informal speech used in conversation and it has words like ‘gonna’ ,’wanna’ and many more phrases like ‘go bannanas’ or ‘draw the line’
