Poetry Terms Flashcards
Test 2/9
repetition of similar speech sounds in closely associated words or syllables
Alliteration
referring metaphorically to persons, places, or things, from history or previous lit; the reader is expected to have enough familiarity to make associations
Allusion
comparison of two like things, alike in certain aspects
Analogy
addressing some abstract object as if it were animate; a kind of personification
Apostrophe
repetition of identical vowel sounds in syllables with different consonant sounds
Assonance
the person or people to whom the speaker is speaking (consider apostrophe, too)
Audience
“bad sound”
Cacophony
a pause within a line
Caesura
omitting an unstressed syllable
Catalexis
an extended or elaborate metaphor which forms the framework of an entire poem, with all comparisons being interrelated in some way
Conceit
ideas or feelings a word evokes
Connotation
two lines with identical rhymes
Couplet
dictionary definition of a word
Denotation
rhyming words occur at the ends of the lines
End Rhyme
a pause at the end of the line
End-stopped
3 quatrains and 1 couplet (abab cdcd efef gg) in iambic pentameter
English Sonnet
a line “runs over” to the next line without a pause
Enjambment
“good sound”
Euphony
length of lines and location of pauses in a poem; number and length of lines, rhythmic pattern, and rhyme scheme of a poem
Form
