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
