Poetry test Review Flashcards
Alliteration
the same occurence of sounds for letters at the beggining of a word thoughout a sentence
Ex: “Sarah’s seven sister’s slept soundly”
Allusion
A refrence to a a place, person, or event
Assonance
streesed syllsbles in a sentence
Ballad
A story/narrative in poetic form
Consonance
Agreement between opinions or action
Diction
The author’s specific word choice
Enjambment
When a line ends without a pause and continues thought the next line
Free verse
A poem that has no rhyme or measureable meter
Metaphor
using words to compare things without using like or as
Meter
the measurement of sounds/beats in a poem
Onomatopoeia
using words to discribe sounds
Rhythm
The recurrence of stress and unstressed sounds in poetry
Simile
Using words to discribe things using like or as
Stanze
A unified group of lines in poetry
Symbol
An object or action the means somthing more than it’s literal meaning
Theme
The idea or message of the story
Tone
The attitude of the narrator when telling the story
Verse
A single line in poetry
Think of a verse in the bible
Rhyme scheme
Ex: AABBB/CCDDD/EEFFF
A pattern of rhyems at the end of each line
