Poetry Terms And Vocab Flashcards
Dramatic poetry
Uses the techniques of drama to present the speech of one or more characters in verse form
Narrative poetry
Tells a story and has same literary elements
Lyric poetry
Expresses the thoughts and feelings of single spingle speaker
Meter
Regular pattern stressed and unstressed syllables
Foot
Unit of rhym
Stanza
Group of poetic lines formally or informally organized
Sound devices
Elements that adds a musical quality to the poem
Rhyme
Repition of sound endsof words
Imagery
Language using images
Figurative languages
Uses images words phrases evokes emotion
Simile
Compares two unlike things
Personification
Figure of speech gives human traits to nonhuman
Oxymoron
Combines 2 contridictory words
Surmised
Guessed concluded
Eternity
Time w out beginning or end