Poetry terms Flashcards
alliteration
repetition of beginning sounds
(Knock-Kneed, Coughing like hags, we Cursed through sludge)
assonance
consonance
close placement of similar vowel sounds w different end consonants (date fade sweet treats)
repetition of consonant sounds at the end w/ different vowels (bad sod bond that transcends the beyond)
euphony
cacophony
harmony sounds long vowels and certain consonants
discordant sounds (my stick-fingers click with a snicker)
end rhyme
repetition of end words in a poem that rhyme (i was angry with my FRIEND/I told my wrath, my wrath did END)
end-stopped line
the line ends with a punctuation
(It happens when I’m at bodegas./It happens when I’m at school.)
Enjambment
(opposite of end-stopped)
no punctation just a continuous line of rambling (the back wings
of the/hospital where
nothing/will grow lie
cinders/in which shine
the broken)
stanza
a division of a poem or the paragraph of a poem
persona
takeaway?
speaker of literary work (narrator)
author and persona can be different
apostrophe
aka?
speaking directly to an imagined listener or object (addressing it by name)
O Captain! My Captain!
Anaphora
parallelism when lines begin with the same words
ambiguity
word or phrase that can mean more than one thing (she saw the man with the telescope)
euphemism
understatement used to lessen something severe
(she is at rest. (meaning she is dead)
(she is under the weather (sick)
hyperbole
dramatization
(I could eat a horse)
diction
writer’s language for effect
(grueling task instead of hard task)
extended metaphor
longer than the usual word or phrase (extends through a stanza or the whole poem)
