Poetry Terms Flashcards
Repetition of the same sound, usually a consonant, at the beginning if two or more adjacent words to draw the reader’s attention to those two words.
Alliteration
A brief reference to details the writer expects the reader to recognize
Allusion
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive clauses or phrases
Anaphora
A sudden break in the narrative to address the reader or an absent person or thing
Apostrophe
Repetition of sound, especial of the same cow sound, in two or more adjacent words
Assonance
Omission of words necessary for the grammatical structure of a sentence or clause to give greater brevity, compactness or force
Ellipse
The use of a word or phrase who sound echoes the meaning
Onomatopoeia
A concrete or specified description, usually achieved by the use or proper nouns rich in connotations
Vivid particularization
A crisscross arrangement ABBA
Chiasmus
Placing an important word at first an last places in a line of poetry
First-last word positions
A word place out of its usual order so that it is frame or centered
Framing
The words of one noun-adj phrase alternating with another ABAB
Interlocking word order or synchysis
Two words or phrase set side by side to intensify meaning
Juxtapositionb
Separating grammatically related words to produce a word picture of the meaning conveyed by the words
Separation
A poem in elegiac couplets that is a tribute to the dead
Elegy
