Test Flashcards
Alliteration
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art
Allusion
The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text
Assonance
A story/narrative in poetic form
Ballad
The repetition of constant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text
Consonance
The authors specific word choice
Diction
This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line
Enjambment
Poetry that doesn’t rhyme or have a measurable meter
Free verse
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, such as “like” or “as”
Metaphor
The measure arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poets place to of emphasis and the number of syllables per line
Meter (measure arrangement)
A word that sounds like what it mean
Onomatopoeia
The recurrence of stressed or unstressed sounds in poetry
Rhythm
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connecting words, such as ‘like’ or ‘as,
Ex- Love is like a battlefield
Simile
A undefined group of lines in poetry, that is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.
Stanza
An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning
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