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Poetry Flashcards
Poetry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Poetic Devices | sound devices used to create a mood,set the tone. |
| Alliteration | Repetition of beginning sounds( sad Sunday, knowing nobody, cnad ki |
| Amphora | repetition of a word or words at the beginning of a line. |
| Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds within words |
| Consonance | repeated consonant sounds within words |
| Internal Rhyme | the rhyming of two or more words within the same line. |
| Near Rhyme | the repetition of sounds (usually the constant sounds will match, but not the vowel sound. |
| Onomatopoeia | words that imitate their sounds.(BEAM,SPLASH,BOOM.) |
| True Rhyme | the last syllable of words have identical sounds. |
| Figurative Language | figures of speech not meant to be taken literally. |
| Allusion | reference to another person,place,event,literary,work,etc |
| Hyperbole | Exaggeration |
| Idiom | a common phrase or figure of speech not to be taken literally. (examples- beating around the bush,raining cats and dogs) |
| Metaphor | comparison of two things ( equaling one to the other. |
| Personification | a metaphor that gives human qualities/traits to non-human things. |
| Simile | comparing two things using like or as. |
| Lyric Poetry | is a form of poetry that expresses personal and emotional feelings. Is usually written in the present tense, and has specific rhyme schemes and a musical |
| Narrative Poetry | is poetry that tells a story and has a plot, often makes use of the of the voices of the narrator and characters. Usually written in metered verse. May be long or short. |
| Meter In Poetry | is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in a verse. Many traditional verse forms require a specific verse meter or a certain set of meters alternating in a particular order. |
| Rhyme Scheme | Is the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem. Is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme. |
| Ballad | A song or a poem that tells a story , usually in a short stanzas as simple language. |
| Narrative Poem | A poem that tells a story. |
| Free Verse | Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme. |
| Rhythm | A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of other sound patterns. A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of other sound patt |