Terms C-D Flashcards
A harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones. It may be an unconscious flaw in the poet’s music, resulting in harshness of sound or difficulty of articulation, or it may be used consciously for effect.
Cacophony
A pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause.
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Caesura
An ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy, and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things. May be a brief mataphoe, but may also be found it the framework of an entire poem.
Conceit
The repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words.
Add/read
Bill/ball
Born/burn
Consonance
A two-line stanza, usually with end-rhymes the same
Couplet
Rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonence, and onomatopoeia are all devices of ____.
Sound
The use of words in a literary work
Diction
A poem which is intended primarily to teach a lesson.
Didactic poem
A poem which employs a dramatic form or some element(s) of dramatic techniques as a means of achieving poetic ends.
Dramatic poem
