Poetry Terms Flashcards
Alliteration
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words.
Allusion
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly.
Assonance
The repetition of the sound of a vowel or letter in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible.
(Go and Mow the lawn)
Ballad
A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
Biographical Poems
Same as regular biographies but with an artistic flair.
Blank verse
No rhyme uses iambic pentameter
Cinquain
A five line stanza
Concrete poem
Writing in the shape that it is about
Couplet
Two line verse
Foot
Combination of stressed and unstressed syllables
Free Verse
No rhyme or meter
Haiku
Japanese 5 7 5
Hyperbole
Exaggerating
Imagery
Visually descriptive words
Irony
Something that normally signifies the opposite
Fire station burned down
Line
Unit of language in which a poem or play is divided.
Lyric poem
Emotional song like poetry
Metaphor
Figure of speech in which a word
Or phrase Is applied to an object that it shouldn’t be.
(He drowned in a sea of grief)
Meter
Stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern
Narrative poem
Tells a story
Onomatopoeia
Words that look how they sound. Splat bang pop
Paradox
Self-contradictory
Beginning of the end
Personification
Human characteristics to non- humans
Rhyme.
Glow blow- masculine
Stocking shocking- Feminine
Simile
Comparison using like or as.
Sonnet
14 lines
Any rhyme schemes (10)
Speaker
Word place character or object. That means something beyond what it is on literal scale
Stanza
Group of lines
Symbol
Something that represents something else. (Sun=Gods eye)
Theme
Underlying message
Tone
Attitude towards the reader
