Poetry Terminology Flashcards by Lauren Purcell | Brainscape

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what is alliteration?

A

close repetition of continent sounds

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what is assonance?

A

close repetition of vowel sounds

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what is blank verse?

A

unrhymed iambic pentameter

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what is iambic pentameter?

A

five iambs-ba-DUM, ba-DUM, ba-DUM, ba-DUM, ba-DUM

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what is a caesura?

A

pause in the middle of a line

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what is a cliche?

A

words or phrases used in everyday life

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what is a connotation?

A

suggestive meaning of a word

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what is a contradiction?

A

statements that dent agree with each other

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what is dramatic monologue?

A

poem in the voice of a fictional character

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what is a elegy?

A

poem about a dead person or thing

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what is enjambment?

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when phrase carries on over a line without pause

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what is an extended metaphor?

A

metaphor over several lines in a poem

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what is free verse?

A

poem which lack regular rhythm or rhyme

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what is a hyperbole?

A

exaggeration

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what is imagery?

A

descriptive language that helps trigger senses

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what is irony?

A

saying one thing but meaning another

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what is onomatopoeia?

A

words that resemble the sounds they make

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what is a oxymoron?

A

two terms seen as opposite “terribly good”

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what is a paradox?

A

a statement which contradicts its self but seems true

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what is personification?

A

giving human trates to non living things

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what is a quatrain?

A

stance with 4 lines

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what is a refrain?

A

reoccurring phrase especially at the end of stanza

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what is a rhyming couplet?

A

pair of verses that rhyme

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what is a simile?

A

directly compare each other using like and as

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what is a slant rhyme?

A

rhyme that isn’t quite rhyme “door” “dear”

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what is a sonnet?

A

14 lines, iambic pentameter, Volta

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what is a symbol?

A

sight representing something else

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what is a VOLTA?

A

turn of thought or argument

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what is epistrophe?

A

repetion at the end