Poetry Terms Flashcards
<p>The repetition of the initial consonant sounds</p>
<p>alliteration
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<p>reference to a person or event in mythology or history;used to add meaning</p>
<p>allusion</p>
<p>a speaker directly addresses an absent person or personified quality, object, or idea</p>
<p>apostrophe</p>
<p>the close repetition of vowel sounds</p>
<p>assonance</p>
<p>unrhymed lines of poetry</p>
<p>blank verse</p>
<p>a pause or break in a line of poetry </p>
<p>caesura</p>
<p>two lines of verse that rhyme</p>
<p>couplet</p>
<p>a poem in the form of the poem's topic </p>
<p>conrete poem</p>
<p>the repetition of a consonant sound two or more times in short succession </p>
<p>consonance</p>
<p>the feelings or images associated with a word</p>
<p>connotation</p>
<p>the factual meaning of the word or line without emotional coloring</p>
<p>denotation</p>
<p>an exaggeration</p>
<p>hyperbolie</p>
<p>sensory details to paint a picture in the reader's mind</p>
<p>imagery</p>
<p>a comparison of two unlike things without using like or as</p>
<p>metaphor</p>
<p>eight lines of poetry grouped together</p>
<p>octave</p>
<p>words that sound like what they describe</p>
<p>onomatopoeia</p>
<p>two opposite ideas working together</p>
<p>oxymoron</p>
<p>giving human qualities to inanimate objects</p>
<p>personification</p>
<p>a short composition having the intention of poetry but written in paragraph form rather than verse</p>
<p>prose</p>
<p>four lines of poem grouped together</p>
<p>quatrain</p>
<p>a repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines at a fixed position in the poem</p>
<p>refrain</p>
<p>repeating the same words or phrases</p>
<p>repetition </p>
<p>anyh fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas</p>
<p>rhyme scheme</p>
<p>the end sounds are exactly alike</p>
<p>end rhyme</p>
the rhyme involves one syllable
masculine rhyme
the rhyme involves two or more syllables
feminine rhyme
the sound is similar to make a rhyme, does not need to be exact
approximate rhyme
rhyming words within a line
internal rhyme
a particular pattern of stress in a poem or kind of poetry
rhythm
six lines of poetry grouped together
sestet
comparing two unlike things using like or as
simile
a poem of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
sonnet
a division of a poem, a grouping of lines
staqnza
an object that is used to represent something else
symbol
the central idea or message
theme
the attitude or feeling of the speaker
tone
saying less than one means
understatement
