Test Flashcards
Allegory
Interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning
Alliteration
Occurrence if the same letter or sound at the beginning of close words
Allusion
Reference to
Anaphora
Repetition of worries or phrases in a group of sentences
Apostrophe
Direct speech to an abstract concept or person who’s not physically present
Assonance
Repetition of a vowel sound near each other
Asyntedon
A sense of conjunction between parts of a sentence
Ballad
Narrating poem in a short stanza
Caesura
Pauses in the middle of a line
Cacophony
Harsh sounds and combination of consonant in a group of words
Cliche
And overused phrase
Concrete poetry
Objects composed of words
Consonance
Same consonance sound in a group of words
Couplet
2 line stanza
Dramatic irony
When the audience knows what the character doesnt
Elegy
Poem of reflection
Enjabment
Absence of punctuation at the end of a line
Epic
Lengthy narrative
Epitaph
Short poem for a tombstone
Extended metaphor
Metaphor extended over multiple lines
Euphony
Pleasing to ear
Free verse
Open poetry
Heterometric stanza
Lines varying in lengths
Hyperbole
Overexageration
Hyphora
When question is posed then answered
Internal rhyme
Ryne in a single line
Isometric stanza
Stanza with same line lengths
Juxtaposition
Two things close to create a contrast effect
Lyric
Poem that expresses personal emotion
Metaphor
Comparing something to something else
Octave
8 stanza
Ole
Poem praising someone or something
Onomatopoeia
Sounds for words
Organic imagery
Emotions
Oxymoron
Figure of speech when opposites are used beside each other
Paradox
Statement that contradicts itself
Polysyndeton
Overwhelming list
Quatrain
4 line stanza
Rhyme scene
Patter of rhyme at the end of each stanza
Sonnet
14 line poem
Synecdoche
Part of something is used to refer to s whole
Syntax
Order of words
Tercet
3 line stanza
Tone
Feeling of poem
Understatement
Representing something as less important
Volta
Shift or change in poem