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Poetry Flashcards
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. |
| Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose. |
| Ballad | A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action, a musical rhythm, and narrated in a direct style. |
| Blank verse | A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
| Concrete poem | A poem that is written to suggest the shape of its subject matter. |
| Connotation | The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning. Poets, especially, tend to use words rich in connotation. |
| Couplet | A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. |
| Denotation | The dictionary meaning of a word. |
| Diction | The selection of words in a literary work. A work's diction forms one of its centrally important literary elements, as writers use words to convey action, reveal character, imply attitudes, identify |
| Elegy | A lyric poem that laments the dead. |
| Eulogy | is a speech or writing in praise of a person(s) or thing(s), especially one recently dead or retired or a term of endearment. Eulogies may be given as part of funeral services. They take place in a funeral home during or after a wake. |
| Epitah | is a short text honoring a deceased person, strictly speaking that is inscribed on their tombstone or plaque, but also used figuratively. Some are specified by the dead person beforehand, others chosen by those responsible for the burial. |
| Epic | A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero. Epics typically chronicle the origins of a civilization and embody its central values. |
| Figurative language | A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. |
| Free verse | Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. |
| Haiku | Traditional Japanese poem, written in three lines, usually around 17 syllables (one breath long), on a subject of nature, often indicating the time of season or weather, described as having a “turn” in the second line. |
| Hyperbole | A figure of speech involving exaggeration. |
| Iamb | An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, as in to-DAY. |
| Imagery | The pattern of related comparative aspects of language, particularly of images, in a literary work. |
| Lyric poem | A type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and the expression of feeling. Most of the poems in this book are lyrics. |
| Metaphor | A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. |
| Meter | The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems. |
| Mood | The feeling the authors tries to create through imagery. |
| Narrative poem | A poem that tells a story. |
| Ode | A long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form. |
| Onomatopedia | Sound words |
| Pentameter | A line with 5 metered feet. |
| Personification | The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities. |
| Quatrain | A four-line stanza in a poem, the first four lines and the second four lines in a Petrachan sonnet. |
| Rhyme | The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. |
| Rhythm | The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse. |
| Simile | A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though. |
| Sonnet | A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter. |
| Stanza | A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form--either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter, or with variations from one stanza to another. |
| Tone | The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work, |
| Verse | Either a definite number of lines of poetry (see stanza) or a general term for poetic composition. |
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