poetry terms and techniques Flashcards
reputation of initial consonant sounds
alliteration
The repetition of word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
anaphora
repetition of vowel sounds
assonance
two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
couplet
Word choice
diction
A line that ends with the natural speech, pause usually marked by punctuation
End stopped line
 The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line couplet or stanza
enjambment
Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme
free verse
A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry 
meter
A four line stanza
quatrian
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines of a poem or verse
rhyme scheme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
end rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line 
internal rhyme
words that have some sound in common, but do not rhyme exactly
slant rhyme 
A group of lines in a poem
stanza
