Poetry terms Flashcards
Refers something to a person, place, or event from history.
Allusion
The repetition of sounds at the beginnings of words.
Alliteration
The repetition of identical consonant sounds that are preceded by different vowel sounds.
Consonance
Language expanded beyond its usual literal meanings.
Figurative language
Poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme, meter, or form.
Free verse
Or exaggeration, is the obvious stretching of the truth to emphasize strong feeling or to create a humorous effect.
Hyperbole
Language that appeals to the 5 senses.
Imagery
The musical quality by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Rhythm
A poem that directly expresses the speaker’s thoughts and emotions in a musical way.
Creates a single unified impression.
Lyric
A direct comparison between 2 unlike things.
Metaphor
The feeling created by a poem or story.
Mood
The use of words that imitate the sounds they describe.
Onomatopoeia
A figure of speech in which poets give an animal, object, or idea human qualities.
Personification
The use mo than once of any element of language - a sound, word, phrase, or sentence
Repetition
The repetition if words that have the same ending sound.
Rhyme
