Poetry Vocabulry Flashcards
Emotional suggestion of a word- ( positive)sweet, happy. (Negative)ugly, and mean
Connotation
(Literal)Meaning of the word
Denotation
Poetry is written in lines
Lines
Groups of lines
Stanza
Repetition of vowel sounds
The light of the fire is a sight(long I)
Assonance
Collection
Anthology
Compares 2 things
•Time is a Thief
•You are a couch potato
Metaphor
Compares 2 things (as, like)
•Buys as a Bee
•Clean as a Whistle
Simile
Gives human characteristics to inmate objects
•Opportunity knocked on the door
•The sun greeted me this morning
Personification
An outrageous exaggeration
•You snore louder than a freight train.
•She is so dumb, she thinks Taco Bell is a Mexican phone Company
Hyperbole
Word which has meaning in itself but is used to represent something entirely different.
•Dove-Love
•Black-Death
Symbolism
Repetition of Sound
•petter piper pick a pepper
•how many wood can a wood-chuck chuck if a wood -chuck could chuck would
Alliteration
It uses words that sound like their meaning, or mimic the sounds
•the burning wood Hissed and Cracked
Onomatopoeia
A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literal person, place, event, or movement.
Allusion
