Poetry Terminology Flashcards
what is alliteration?
close repetition of continent sounds
what is assonance?
close repetition of vowel sounds
what is blank verse?
unrhymed iambic pentameter
what is iambic pentameter?
five iambs-ba-DUM, ba-DUM, ba-DUM, ba-DUM, ba-DUM
what is a caesura?
pause in the middle of a line
what is a cliche?
words or phrases used in everyday life
what is a connotation?
suggestive meaning of a word
what is a contradiction?
statements that dent agree with each other
what is dramatic monologue?
poem in the voice of a fictional character
what is a elegy?
poem about a dead person or thing
what is enjambment?
when phrase carries on over a line without pause
what is an extended metaphor?
metaphor over several lines in a poem
what is free verse?
poem which lack regular rhythm or rhyme
what is a hyperbole?
exaggeration
what is imagery?
descriptive language that helps trigger senses
what is irony?
saying one thing but meaning another
what is onomatopoeia?
words that resemble the sounds they make
what is a oxymoron?
two terms seen as opposite “terribly good”
what is a paradox?
a statement which contradicts its self but seems true
what is personification?
giving human trates to non living things
what is a quatrain?
stance with 4 lines
what is a refrain?
reoccurring phrase especially at the end of stanza
what is a rhyming couplet?
pair of verses that rhyme
what is a simile?
directly compare each other using like and as
