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Mod Poets Lit Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | recurrence of initial consonant sounds |
| Allusion | short, informal reference to famous person or event |
| Analogy | comparison of two things to explain or clarify an unfamiliar or difficult idea |
| Anaphora | repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases |
| Apostrophe | interrupts the discussion and addresses a person or personified thing |
| Appositive | noun that describes or defines another noun |
| Assonance | similar vowel sounds |
| Epithet | Adjective that qualifies a subject by naming a key characteristic of the subject |
| Transferred epithet | adjective modifying a noun it doesn't normally modify |
| Hyperbole | deliberately exaggerated conditions for emphasis or effect |
| Onomatopoeia | word that imitates the sound it describes |
| Oxymoron | paradox reduced to two words, usually an adjective-noun combination |
| Meter | the rhythm of a poem |
| Metrical foot | one sequence of syllables that makes up meter |
| Iamb | type of metrical foot; unstressed, stressed (Ex. before) |
| Trochee | type of metrical foot; stressed, unstressed (Ex. over) |
| Anapest | type of metrical foot; unstressed, unstressed, stressed (Ex. seventeen) |
| Dactyl | type of metrical foot; stressed, unstressed, unstressed (Ex. lollipop) |
| Spondee | type of metrical foot; stressed, stressed (Ex. hemlock) |
| Free verse | a term coined by Imagists; poetry characterized by no set rhythm or meter |
| End rhyme | rhyming words that occur at the end of two lines of poetry |
| Internal rhyme | rhyming words that occur within the same line of poetry |
| Exact rhyme | rhyming words that have precisely the same ending sounds. |
| Approximate rhyme | rhyming words that have close ending sounds but that do not match perfectly. Also called half rhyme, slant rhyme, and imperfect rhyme |
| TPFASTT | a step-by-step strategy used to analyze poetry |
Created by:
Alicia Howell
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