Unseen poetry Flashcards
What is alliteration?
When the first letter of each word is the same
Example - Purple pandas played
What is sibilance?
Sibilance is a manner of articulation of fricative and affricate consonants, made by directing a stream of air with the tongue towards the sharp edge of the teeth, which are held close together; a consonant that uses sibilance may be called a sibilant, or a strident.
(Example - slithery snake)
What is assonance?
Words with the same vowel
Example - fat cat sat on the mat
What is metaphor?
Direct comparison
Example - heart of stone
What is a simile?
A comparison using the words “like” or “as”
Example - as big as a volcano
What is hyperbole?
Exaggeration
Example - so hungry I could eat a horse
What is personification?
Giving an animal or object human qualities
Example - the wind howled
What is a rhyme?
When two words sounds the same
Example - door, floor, poor
What is a rhyme scheme?
When a poem follows a particular rhyming pattern
Example - a, b, a, c
What is a slant rhyme?
Almost a rhyme
Example - sock, pluck)
What is a sonnet?
A type of poem that is exactly 14 lines long, and have a rhyme scheme of some sort, also needs to be 10 syllables long in each line
What is allegory?
A word or phrase that could be interpreted in multiple ways
Example - Ozymandias poem is about time and power
What does provide a pistol stand for?
Purpose Introduction Structure Tone Punctuation Rhyme and rhythm Order (word) Vocabulary Imagery Devices (literary) Ending
What is cliche?
A word or phrase that has become overly familiar or commonplace.
(Example - blue sky)
What is onomatopoeia?
Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it.
(Example - crash, bang)
What is colloquial language?
The same as a euphemism. Local language that outsiders may not understand.
(Example - gert lush)
What is a rhyming couplet?
A pair of rhyming lines in a poem.
Example - I am a cat, I sit on a mat
What is imagery?
Literary devices are types of imagery. It helps the reader to create a clear image of what’s happening.
(Example - the merciless iced east winds that knive us)
What is a stanza?
A verse of a poem.
What is the tone?
What message is the poet getting across
in the poem? Is the poet angry? Sad?
This is different to the ‘mood’ of a poem
which might be spooky or joyful etc.
What is iambic pentameter?
The stress on the end part of a word (remark). Five of these words in a line of a poem.
Pathetic fallacy
When the weather reflects the mood of the poem
What is anthropomorphism?
Personification of anything other than human.
