Poetry Terms Flashcards
Approximate/Slant Rhyme
Words sound ~ but not the same
Send-when
Fellow-hallow
Anapest;Anapestic
Metrical foot in poetry:two unstressed syllables followed by a stress one
“‘twas the night before Christmas when all through the house”
Assonance
Resemblance of vowel sounds
Blank verse
Poetry in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Carpe Diem
A type of poetry with the theme of living for the day
Conceit
=concept
An unconventional, logically complex or surprising metaphor; requires deeper thought or further explanation
“Hills like white elephant”
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Dactyl;dactylic
Metrical foot in poetry: one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed
Take her up tenderly
Dimeter
Metrical line of verse with two metrical feet
Dramatic monologue
A speech made my a single person for the entire duration of the poem in which the speaker addresses and interacts with one or more people
Elegy
Mournful, melancholic poem
End-Rhyme
Rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of the verse
End-Stopped line
Phrase, clause, or sentence corresponds in length of the line; when a line is ended by a punctuation
English Sonnet
Shakespearean sonnet; three quatrains of iambic pentameter with alternating rhyme: abab/ cdcd/ efef/ gg
Enjambment; Enjambed
Continuation of a phrase, clause, or sentence into the next
Epithet
Word/phrase given to a person or thing used to describe a quality or characteristic
Exact Rhyme
Words with identical sounds
Cat & bat
Extended metaphor
Single metaphor that is elaborated on
=conceit
Feminine rhyme
Rhyme matches 2 or more syllables
Free verse
Poetry with no consistent patterns
Hexameter
Metrical line consisting of 6 feet
Foot
Metrical unit that generates a line of verse
‘Twas the night/before Christ/mas when all/through the house
Has 4 metrical feet
Hyperbole;Hyperbolic
Exaggerated figure if speech
Iamb;iambic
Metrical foot consisting of stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
Implied metaphor
Indirect metaphor
“She barked orders”
Internal rhyme
Rhyme that occurs within a single line
Italian sonnet
Petrarchan sonnet; 14 lines split into 2 groups: 1st eight lines typicallyy abbaabba rhyme scheme and last six lines typically cdecde or cdcdcd rhyme scheme
Litotes
Understatement with negation
“She’s not ugly”
Lyric Poem
Poem typically written in present tense that expresses personal or emotional feelings
Masculine rhyme
A rhyme that matches one syllable
Metaphysical poetry
Highly intellectualized poetry marked by conceits, frequent use of paradox, complexity of thought, etc.
Meter
Measures arrangement of words in poetry
Metonymy
Figure of speech in which word or phrase is substituted for another
Colts instead of El Camino High students
Monometer
Verse consisting of a single metrical foot
Narrative poem
Poem that tells a story often through voice of the narrator and/or characters
Octave
Group or series of 8
Ode
Serious lengthy lyric poem
Parallelism
Parallel in structure
Oxymoron
Combo of two contrasting words
Paradox
Contradictory statement
Pentameter
Line of a verse consisting of 5 metrical feet
Personification
Giving an inanimate object or inhuman being human qualities
Phonetic intensives
Words whose sounds suggest an idea
“fl” sound associated with fire- flame, flicker, flash
Prosody
Theory or study of patterns of rhythm and sound in poetry
Quatrain
Stanza or poem of four lines
Rhetorical question
A question that is not meant to be answered
Rhyme scheme
Arrangement of rhymes in poem or stanza
Run-on line
Enjambment
No punctuation at the end of the line
Scansion
Rhythm of a line of verse
