Poetry Vocabulary Flashcards
Learn and understand the vocab word that come with poetry.
What is Alliteration?
Alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is Allusion?
Allusion is a brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.
What is Assonance?
Assonace is the repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text.
What is a ballad?
A ballad is a story/narrative in poetic form.
What is consonance?
Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds,but not vowels, in a chunk of text.
What is diction?
Diction is the author’s specific word choice.
What is enjambment?
Enjambment occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.
What is Free Verse?
Free verse is poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.
What is a metaphor?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, such as “like” or “as.”
What is onomatopoeia?
An onomatopoeia is a word that sounds exactly what is means.
What is rhythm?
Rhythm is the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry; it could be fast or slow, choppy or smooth.
What is a simile?
A simile is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connecting words such as “like” or “as”.
What is a stanza?
A stanza is a unified group of lines in poetry; it’s often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.
What is a symbol?
A symbol is an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.
What is the theme?
The theme is the central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader
