Poetry Vocab Flashcards
What’s a group or line that is linked together often by a thought?
Stanza
What is the repetition of similar sounds at the end of a word?
Rhyme
What the pattern of the end of the rhyme in a poem?
Rhyme scheme
What’s a sound element of poetry and the pattern of stressed syllables?
Rhythm
What is a repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables?
Meter
What’s a pair of rhyming lines in a poem?
Couplet
What’s a four line poem or stanza, usually united by meter or rhyme?
Quatrain
What’s the deliberate use and arrangement of words to create a special effect including words, phrases, symbols and ideas?
Figurative language
What’s a comparison of two things that have a quality in common and they use like or as?
Simile
What’s a comparison of two things that don’t use like or as?
Metaphor
What’s a metaphor that is developed over several lines of writing?
Extended metaphor
What’s the use of a person, place or object to stand for something?
Symbolism
What’s the repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of words?
Alliteration
What’s the repetition of a constant sound in several words of a line or stanza?
Consonance
What’s the repetition of of a vowel sound in several words of a line or stanza?
Assonance
