Poetry Terms Flashcards
is a literary device where words begin with letters belonging to the same sound group. Whether it is the consonant sound or a specific vowel group, the alliteration involves creating a repetition of similar sounds in the sentence.
Example: The Wicked Witch of the West went her own way.
Alliteration
refers to repetition of sounds produced by vowels within a sentence or phrase.
Example: A long song
Assonance
is repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase.
Example: She ate seven sandwiches on a sunny Sunday last year.
Consonance
is a form of language in which writers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Figurative language
is a literary device wherein the author uses specific words and phrases that exaggerate and overemphasize the statement in order to produce an exaggerated, more noticeable effect. The purpose of hyperbole is to create a larger-than-life effect and overly stress a specific point.
Example: “I am so tired I cannot walk another inch” or “I’m so sleepy I might fall asleep standing here”.
Hyperbole
is when the author uses words and phrases to create “mental images” for the reader.
Example: The cool, blue water flowed smoothly down the majestic waterfall.
Imagery
is rhyme between a word within a line and another word either at the end of the same line or within another line.
Example: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.
Internal rhyme
is a figure of speech that compares two subjects without the use of “like” or “as.” While a simile states that one thing is like another, a metaphor states that one thing is the other.
Example: The car was a speeding bullet.
Metaphor
is the emotional feeling or atmosphere that a work of literature produces in a reader.
Mood
is a poem that tells a story.
Narrative poem
is the use of words to imitate the actual sound they represent.
Example: Crash went the plate as it fell from the shelf.
Onomatopoeia
is a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes.
Example: The flowers danced in the gentle breeze
Personification
a pattern of rhyming words placed at the end of the lines in the prose or poetry.
Example: Roses are red (a) Violets are blue (b) Beautiful they all may be (c) But I love you (b) The above is an “a-b-c-b” rhyme scheme.
Rhyme scheme
is the repetition of stressed (/) and unstressed (x) syllables
Rhythm
is a literary device in which the repetition of the same or similar sounds occurs in two or more words, usually at the end of lines in poem.
Example: You’re a poet and you didn’t know it.
Rhyme
