Poetry Terms Flashcards
Repetition of a vowel sound to create internal rhyming with in phrases or sentences
Assonance
Repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a word
Alliteration
Repetition of the same consonant sound two or more times in short succession
Consonance
Two lines in a poem that rhyme
Couplet
Continuation of a phrase or sentence across a line of poetry
Enjambment
No rules, Lines irregular and may or may not rhyme, develops it’s own rhythm naturally
Free verse
Extreme exaggeration
Hyperbole
Unstressed stressed, 5 feet
Iambic pentameter
contrasting two things to emphasize one
Juxtaposition
Comparing two object
Metaphor
How the reader feels
Mood
Words that imitate an actual sound
Onomatopoeia
Words are imperfect aural correspondence
Perfect rhyme
Describes something inanimate with human qualities
Personification
To create clear images, to produce sound/create rhythm, to tell a story
Purposes of poetry
Four lines in a stanza
Quatrain
Rhyme words at the end of a line, Repetition of rhyme throughout the poem
Rhyme scheme
Similar rhyme, but lack in perfect correspondence
Slant rhyme
Presence of strongly emphasized s, sh, ch, z, or j
Sibliance
Comparison using like or as
Simile
Three lines in a stanza, any rhyme scheme
Tercet
How’s the author feels
Tone
Six lines in a stanza
Sestet
Seven lines in a stanza
Septet
Narrator tells the story vs the author who just writes the story
Narrator vs author
