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
