Poetry Quiz 1 Flashcards
Prose
Way we usually write and speak
Verse
Describes poetic lines composed in a measured rhythmical pattern that often rhyme
Stanza
Section of poem like a paragraph in prose
Couplet, Quatrain
2 lines, 4 lines
Repetition
Repeating words, lines, or ideas to make a point
Refrain
Line or group of lines repeated regularly or irregularly
Blank Verse*
Unrhymed lines or iambic pattern (10 syllables, every other syllable streesed)(like shakespear)
Rhyme
Repition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different words often at the end of lines
Meter
When rhythmic pattern of STRESSES recurs in a poem
Rhythm
Used to refer the recurrence of stressed OR UNSTRESSED sounds
Metaphor
Comparing 2 things NOT using like or as (extended metaphor-entire poem of text making one connection)
Simile
Conparing 2 things USING like or as
Personification
Giving nonhuman things human characteristics
Hyperbole
Enormous exaggeration
Symbol
Something small representing something larger
Alliteration*
Repition of the same CONSONANT sounds in a sequence usually at the BEGINNING of a word/syllable (Descending Dew Drops)
Consonance*
Common type of rhyme consisting of IDENTICAL CONSONANT sounds preceded by different vowel sounds (wORTH, brEATH)
Assonance*
Repitition of INTERNAL VOWEL sounds in nearby words that don’t end the same (aslEEp under a trEE)
Imagery
Words used that paint pictures in the readers’ minds
Mood
Way the setting affects the the readers and characters
Tone
How the AUTHOR feels about his characters and subject
Allusion
Refrence to another work, person, place, or time
Onomatopoeia
Word or combination of words resembling sounds (buzz, rattle, bang)
Archetype
Describes universal symbols that evoke deep or unconscious responses (quests, initiations, descents to underworld, ascents to heaven)
Speaker
Voice used by the author to tell story or poem, often created identity and not equated with the author’s self
