Useful for all poems Flashcards
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Language
Metaphor – comparing one thing to another
Simile – comparing two things with ‘like’ or ‘as’
Personification – giving human qualities to the nonhuman
Imagery – language that makes us imagine a sight
(visual), sound (aural), touch (tactile), smell or taste.
Tone – the mood or feeling created in a poem.
Pathetic Fallacy – giving emotion to weather in order
to create a mood within a text.
Irony – language that says one thing but implies the
opposite eg. sarcasm.
Colloquial Language – informal language, usually
creates a conversational tone or authentic voice.
Onomatopoeia – language that sounds like its
meaning.
Alliteration – words that are close together start with
the same letter or sound.
Sibilance – the repetition of s or sh sounds.
Assonance – the repetition of similar vowel sounds
Consonance – repetition of consonant sounds.
Plosives – short burst of sound: t, k, p, d, g, or b sound.
Structure
Stanza – a group of lines in a poem.
Repetition – repeated words or phrases
Enjambment – a sentence or phrase that runs onto the
next line.
Caesura – using punctuation to create pauses or stops.
Contrast – opposite concepts/feelings in a poem.
Juxtaposition – contrasting things placed side by side.
Oxymoron – a phrase that contradicts itself.
Anaphora – when the first word of a stanza is the
same across different stanzas.
Epistrophe – when the final word of a stanza is the
same across different stanzas.
Volta – a turning point in a poem.
Form
Speaker – the narrator, or person in the poem.
Free verse – poetry that doesn’t rhyme.
Blank verse – poem in iambic pentameter, but with no
rhyme.
Sonnet – poem of 14 lines with clear rhyme scheme.
Rhyming couplet – a pair of rhyming lines next to each
other.
Meter – arrangement of stressed/unstressed syllables.
Monologue – one person speaking for a long time.
