Poetry Terms Flashcards
What is the definition for Alliteration?
The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.
What is the definition of Allusion?
An indirect mention of something from pop culture or literature
What is the definition of Assonance?
The reputation of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose
What is the definition of Ballad?
A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
What is the definition of Blank Verse?
A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is the definition of Couplet?
A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem
What is the definition of Epic?
A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
What is the definition of Figurative Language?
A form of language use in which writers and speakers convert something other than the literal meaning of their words.
What is the definition of Free verse?
Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. The verse is “free” in not being bound by earlier poetic conventions requiring poems to adhere to an explicit and identifiable meter and rhyme scheme in a form such as the sonnet or ballad.
What is the definition of Hyperbole?
A figure of speech involving exaggeration
What is the definition of Iamb?
An unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one
What is the definition of imagery?
The pattern or related comparative aspects of language, particularly of images in a literary work
What is the definition of metaphor?
Comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as is or are.
What is the definition of meter?
The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems.
What is the definition of Ode?
A long stately poem on stanzas of varied length,meter, and form. Usually a serious poem on an exalted subject
