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
any number of lines without rhyme or meter
Free verse
saying more than is true, an over-exaggeration
Hyperbole
adding an unstressed syllable
Hypermeter
repetition of identical consonant sounds with different vowel sounds
Consonance (internal alliteration)
rhyme occurs inside a line
Internal Rhyme
1 octave and 1 sestet (abbaabba cdecde/cdcdee/cdccdc, etc.) in iambic pentameter
Italian Sonnet
two unlike things compared directly, implying several similar qualities
Metaphor
substitution of one word for another closely related word
Metonymy
the accents of the syllables in the words falling at regular intervals
Metric pattern
the use of words which sound like their meaning
Onomatopoeia
an antithesis which brings together two sharply contradictory terms
Oxymoron
a statement which while seemingly contradictory or absurd may actually be well-founded or true
Paradox
giving human qualities to inanimate objects or non-human creatures
Personification
recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables and pauses
Rhythm
two unlike things imply only ONE similar quality
Simile
two words nearly sound alike but might have a slight variation in vowel sound
Slant Rhyme
the created narrative voice of the poem (NOT necessarily the poet)
Speaker
the use of one object to represent or suggest another object or idea
Symbolism
substitution of one sensory response for another (or the concurrent stimulation of several senses)
Synaesthesia
substitution of part for the whole
Synecdoche
19 lines: 5 tercets (aba) and 1 quatrain (abaa); two repeating refrains make up the “a”
Villanelle
how to read the rhythm of the poem (type of foot and number of feet)
Know Scansion
iamb (~ /), trochee (/ ~), anapest (~ ~ /), dactyl (/ ~ ~)
Types of feet:
one foot
monometer
two feet
dimeter
three feet
trimeter
four feet
tetrameter
five feet
pentameter
six feet
hexameter
seven feet
heptameter
