Poetry Terms Flashcards
Literature in verse form.
A controlled arrangement of lines and stanzas.
Poems use concise, musical, and emotionally charged language to express multiple layers of meaning
Poetry
A grouping of lines in a poem
Stanza
Language that is used imaginatively rather than literally
Some common types of figurative language are simile, metaphor, and personification.
Figurative Language
Uses like, as, than, or resembles to compare two essentially unlike things
Ex: She runs like the wind.
Simile
Speaks of one thing in terms of another (using is, are, was, or were)
Ex: All the world is a stage.
Metaphor
Gives human traits to nonhuman things
Ex: The ocean snarled.
Ex. The wind cried as it ran across the field.
Personification
Extreme exaggeration for effect
Ex: My brother exploded when he saw the damage to his car.
Hyperbole
A word whose sound suggests its meaning
Ex: The alarm clock buzzed its signal.
Onomatopoeia
Repeating a word, phrase, etc. to emphasize an idea or create an effect
Repetition
A reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing.
Ex. He had the strength of Hercules.
Allusion
Poetry that tells a story and has a plot, characters, and setting
Narrative Poetry
The rhythmical, repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
Ex. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
(Iambic Pentameter - a type of meter where a line of verse consists of five pairs of unstressed and stressed or accented syllables.)
Meter
Repetition of identical sounds in the last syllables of words
Rhyme
Repetition of the initial consonant sounds of words
Ex: The little, light lady….
Ex. The twisting trout twinkled below the surface.
Alliteration
Poetry that tells a story about the feats of gods or heroes
Epic
