Poetry Terms 2 Flashcards
The Repetition at close intervals of the Initial identical consonant sound or vowel sounds in words.
Alliteration
That Condition of a successful literary work whereby all its elements work together for the achievement of its central purpose.
Artistic Unity
A fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form
Assonance
What a word suggests beyond its basic definition - Figurative language- a words overtones of meaning.
Connotation
The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sound of words
Consonance
The basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word, independent of its emotional coloration or associations, Literal meaning
Denotation
Language employing figures of speach; language that cannot be taken literally or only literally.
Figurative Language
Broadly, any way of saying something other than the ordinary way, more narrowly, a way of saying one thing and meaning another
Figure of Speech
The external pattern or shape of a poem, Describable without reference to its contents.
Form
A three line poem,
Haiku
Overstatement- a figure of speech in witch exaggeration is sed in the service of truth
Hyperbole
A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike
Metaphor
The use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound
Onomatopoeia
A Figure of speech that endows animal, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human form:
Personification
Usually, a short composition having the intentions of poetry but written in prose rather than verse
Prose Poem
The pattern in which rhyme sounds occur in a stanza
Rhyme scheme
A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike. Made explicit by using like or as.
Simile
Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line
Syllabic Verse
Something that means more than what it is:
Symbol
