Poetry Vocabulary Flashcards
Alliteration
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Allusion
Making a reference to something well known
Blank Verse
unrhymed Iambic Pentameter
Connotation
The Implied Meaning of a word,phrase, line or piece
Couplet
A rhymed two line poem or stanze of a poem
Denotation
the dictionary definition of a word without feeling or emotion
Diction
word choice
foot
basic unit of measure
free verse
poems with no rules (no set rhyme scheme, no set syllable, count, etc(
Haiku
Threeined Japanese poem with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in the last
hyperbole
an exagggerated statement that makes a point
auditory imagery
creates a picture using sounds
Gustatory Imagery
Creates imagery using taste
Olfacotry imagery
Creats Smell imager
Tactile Imagery
Creates a picture using touch
Visual imagery
Creates a picture for the reader to see in his mind
Metaphor
a comparison of two things not using like or as
meter
Is the regular pattern of stressed and unstreessed syllables tha tmake up a line of poetry
Narrative poem
A poem that tells a story
Onomatopoeia
A word that is a sound
Paradox
A statement that seems absurd but is true in a nonliteral sense
Parody
A word that keeps the strucutre of another work but then makes fun of the originals
Personification
Giving non thinking objects human qualities
portmanteau
A word created by blending multiple words
