Poetry terms Flashcards
Anaphora
Repetition of the 1st word
EG
‘One for him and her’
‘One for they and them’
Polysemic
When the same word is used but a different meaning is given - poetry is often condensed.
Antimetabole
Words of the 1st clause are repeated and reversed.
EG
‘One for all, all for one’.
Not to be confused with Chiasmus, which are RELATED, not exactly the same.
Chiasmus
Related structure is repeated and reversed
EG
‘First of men, Adam’.
‘Eve, first of women’.
Not to be confused with Antimetabole.
Cacophany and Euphony
C - Unharmonious - constonants
E - the opposite
Confessional poetry
Normally free verse
A burden off the chest
Round
Circular poems- phrase is repeated at the start and the end
Suffocating
Sonnet
1 stanza - 14 lines
Villanelles
19 lines, 5 stanzas ABA, 1 stanza ABAA
Caesura, enjambment and end-stopping
Caesura - pause in the middle
End-stop - pause at the end
Enjambment - carries on
Mneumonic
Something to help remember
Ballad and Couplet
Couplet - 2 lines that rhyme
Ballad - all rhyme
Flirt - FORM
Ballad, sonnet, valta (shift in tone), quatrain, haiku, limerick, acrostic, triset, stanza length and no., development of turning points, repetiition, contrasts
Flirt - LANGUAGE
patterns, clusters, moods, tenses, verb use, punctuation
Flirt - IMAGERY
duh
Flirt - RHYME, RHETORIC, METRE
iambic pentameter, rhyming couplets, spondaic, dactylic, anapestic, contrasts, break in rhythm, half rhyme (foot, root), regular rhyme, repeated, break in
Flirt - TONE
Elements of the spoken voice seen in idiomatic expression, 1st narrator, symbols, motif, personification, semantic fields, onomatopoeia, shift in idea, tone, setting etc, repeated traits of language
Dactyl metre
/xx - musical, lyrical
Anapest metre
xx/ - skipping rhythm (comical)
Trochee metre
/x - melancholic
Iamb metre
x/ - conversational
Spondee metre
// - solemn
