Set 2 Flashcards
A figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory ideas or terms are combined.
Oxymoron
Any written form of conversation between two or more speakers. It usually serves to advance plot and reveal character.
Dialogue
The reversal of normal word order in a sentence or phrase.
Inversion
The exact meaning of a word, without the feelings or suggestions that the word might imply.
Denotation
An association that comes along with a particular word. It has to do with the feelings suggested by the word.
Connotation
Two lines of verse forming a discrete unit of meaning. Also, two lines of rhymed poetry.
Couplet
The intellectual or emotional perspective held by a narrator or persona.
- Retrospective
- Omniscient
- Third Person
- First Person
Point of View
A direct comparison using “like” or “as” to coordinate the object of the comparison with the means of comparison.
Simile
An object that not only serves as an image itself but also refers to a concept or abstract idea that is not important to the theme itself. It must be on something tangible or visible.
Symbol
Any relatively short poem in which a single speaker expresses an emotional state or process of thought.
Lyric Poetry
The story- fiction or nonfiction- being told.
Narrative
A triplet, or stanza of three lines, in which each line ends with the same rhyme.
Tercet
A four-line stanza of poetry
Quatrain
A six-line stanza of poetry.
Sestet
An eight-line stanza of poetry
Octave
A classic poem composed of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter with some form of altering end rhyme.
- Petrarchan (Italian)
- Shakespearean (English)
Sonnet
Recurring patterns of stress, quantity, and pitch.
Rhythm
Rhythmic or metrical verse that is different from prose. It is organized according to units of meaning instead of paragraphs.
Poetry
The repetition of sound in poetry or prose. Often, this repetition appears at the beginning of words but may also appear in the middle or the end.
Alliteration
To express the feelings of a poet; verses of song
Lyric
Poetry which was originally meant to be sung.
Literary Ballad
A repetition of a line or part of line, usually at the end of each stanza or section of a poem.
Refrain
Hyperbole
A deliberate exaggeration
A comparison that does not use “like” or “as.”
Metaphor
Descriptions that appeal to the five senses. Some will also use this interchangeably with figurative language.
Image(ry)
A broad term for poetry that does not follow a regular metrical pattern or rhyme scheme.
Free Verse
Repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants.
Assonance
A song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region It forms a part of their culture.
Folk Ballad
An indirect or inexplicit reference by one text to another text, to a historical occurrence or to myths or legends. This lit. term often adds greater meaning to the work.
Allusion
A song or poem, written in elegiac couplets, that expresses sorrow or lamentations, usually for someone who has died.
Elegy
Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
Blank Verse
A figure of speech in which an object, an idea, or a quality is represented as a person.
Personification
A long narrative poem “celebrating episodes of a people’s heroic tradition.” Can be mythical or heroic.
Epic Poetry
The use of words whose sounds suggest their meanings.
Onomatopoeia
A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit. It is the equivalent of a paragraph in prose writing.
Stanza
Repetitions of similar sounds that are sustained through two or more lines of verse.
Rhyme
The pattern of end rhymes in a poem.
Rhyme Scheme
