Poetry Methods Flashcards
Alliteration
A type of consonance where the repeated sound is in the emphasised parts of the words
Anaphora
The deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an effect
Assonance
The repetition of a vowel sound between words to create an internal rhyme and rhythm
Asyndeton
Leaving out a conjunction (such as and, as , I went, I saw) where one would normally be expected
Cacophony
A harsh discordant mixture of sounds
Caesura
A pause or break in the middle of a line of poetry
Consonance
The repetition of a consonant more than twice in quick succession
Elegy
A mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead
Epistrophe
The repetition of the same word or group of words at the end of lines, clauses or sentences
Epizeuxis
When words or phrases are repeated in a quick succession after each other for emphasis
Euphony
Sounds which are pleasing to the ear
Eye-rhyme
A similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation
Eg. Love and Move
Feminine Rhyme
Rhyme that matches two or more syllables usually at the end of respective lines in which the final syllable or syllables are unstressed
Fricatives
Sounds that are made by nearly closing your mouth including ‘f’, ‘th’, and ‘v’
Half rhyme
Type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds
Masculine rhyme
Rhyme on a single stressed syllable at the end of a line of poetry
Onomatopoeia
A word that sounds something like the thing described
Parallelism
The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter
Plosives
Sounds that can only be made by stopping the passage of air to or from the lungs like ‘p’, ‘t’, ‘k’, ‘b’, ‘d’, ‘g’.
Polysindeton
The use of several conjunctions in close succession especially where some could otherwise be omitted
Rhyme
The repetition of similar sounds or the same sound in two or more words usually at the end of lines in poems and songs
Rhyming couplet
A two line stanza in a poem where both lines rhyme with each other
Sibilance
A specific type of alliteration that uses soft consonant sounds like ‘s’ and ‘sh’
Syllable
An uninterrupted sound that is used to build a word
Words with only one syllable are monosyllabic and words with many syllables are polysyllabic
Syntax
The order in which words are put together to form clauses and sentences
