Poetry Theory Flashcards
What is Enjambment?
Line breaks used in poetry.
What is a metaphor?
Comparison without using like or as.
What is a simile?
Comparison using like or as.
What is alliteration?
Repetition of the same vowel or consonant sounds at the start of words.
What is personification?
giving non-human things human-like characteristics.
What is a verse?
Writing, often in poetry, that doesn’t follow the rules of written expression.
What is Hyperbole?
An extreme exaggeration.
What is Onomatopoeia?
The word imitates the sound.
What is Imagery.
Uses the five senses to paint a picture in the reader’s mind.
What is symbolism?
When something represents something else.
What is an Oxymoron?
Words or phrases that combine opposite ideas.
What is paradox?
An apparently contradictory statement with one element of truth to it.
What is Allusion?
An indirect reference to something well known in the outside world.
What is a refrain?
A line or set of lines repeated throughout a poem.
What is a pun?
Play on words.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
Five pairs of rising and falling syllables.
what is a stanza?
A group of lines in a poem or song.
What is a synecdoche?
When a part represents a whole.
What is assonance?
Close repetition of middle vowel sounds between different consonant sounds.
What is Consonance?
Close repetition of identical sounds (consonants) before and after differing vowel sounds.
What is an analogy?
Comparison with relationships.
What is Metonymy?
Renaming through association, not similarity.
What is an understatement?
Downplay on a statement.
