Unseen Poetry terms Flashcards
Alliteration
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Anaphora
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines
Anadiplosis
Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause.
Allusion
A reference to another work of literature, person, or event
Hyperbole
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Sibilance
A type of alliteration in which the “s” sound is repeated.
Sapphic meter
Found in quatrains where the first 3 lines have 11 syllables and the 4th has 5
In media res
a piece of writing that begins in the middle of the action
Internal rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Irony
A contrast between expectation and reality
Tercet
Stanza containing three lines
Quatrain
Stanza containing 4 lines
Mesodiplosis
Repetition of words in the middle of successive clauses
Zoomorphism
Giving a person animal qualities.
Ekphrasis
The poetic representation of a painting or sculpture in words
Verisimilitude
the quality of appearing to be true, real, likely, or probable
Paradox
A seemingly contradictory statement such as “you have to be cruel to be kind”
Polyptoton
Repetition of a word but in different forms e.g. “sleep” “sleeping”
Phallic imagery
When language alludes to the male sexual anatomy
Pleonasm
The use of more than one word or phrase with the same meaning
Passive voice
The subject of the sentence receives the action.
Parallelism
The repetition of a similar structure across a few clauses or phrase
Neologism
A newly created word
Plosives
Words beginning with b, d, p, k, g, t which can imply a certain mood of attitude to a sentence.
Diacope
Repetition broken up by one or more intervening words
Deixis
Words that are context-bound where meaning depends on who is being referred to, where something is happening or when it is happening.
Anachronism
something out of the proper time
Colloquialism
A word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing (y’all, ain’t)
Epistrophe
repetition of the same word or groups of words at the ends of successive clauses
Interrogative
Asks a question
Figurative language
Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.
Pastoral
Literature regarding the pulchritude of country/agricultural life
Iambic pentameter
a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Hyperbaton
Reversal of the normal word order
Free verse
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Volta
A point of change in a poem
Caesura
A strong pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.
Modal auxiliary verb
A helping verb (e.g., can, could, may, might) that indicates ability, intention, or probability.Modal auxiliary verb
Enjambment
when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Ode
A lyric stanza that usually addresses an event or individual (usually emotive)
Jargon
special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand.
Haiku
A japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables
Meter
a regular repeating rhythm, divided for convenience into feet.
Metonymy
a figure of speech in which something is represented by another thing that is commonly and often physically associated with it.
Imagery
Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)
Pathetic falacy
When weather or setting is used to emphasise the mood or Tone
Periphrasis
the use of indirect and circumlocutory speech or writing
Pleonasm
use of superfluous or redundant words, often enriching the thought
