Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Poetry_Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman addressed as if it was alive and present and could reply | apostrophe |
| unrhymed iambic pentameter | blank verse |
| rhythmic flow of sequence of sounds | cadence |
| extended and elaborate metaphoric comparison may form framework of entire poem | conceit |
| repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words | assonance |
| repetition at close intervals of final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words | consonance |
| mournful or contemplative lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead, often ending in consolation | elegy |
| 1 line of poetry ends without pause and continues into next; line has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing sense to flow uninterruptedly into succeeding line | enjambent |
| long narrative poem told in formal elevated style that focuses on serious subject and chronicles heroic deeds and events important to culture or nation | epic |
| brief, pointed, and witty poem usually makes satiric or humorour point, oftentimes written in couplets | epigram |
| language employing figures of speech; language cannot be taken literally or only literally | figure of speech |
| any form of poem in which length and pattern are prescribed by previous usuage or tradition, such as sonnet, limerick, villanelle, haiku, sestina, and so on | fixed form |
| narrative poem designed to be sung, composed by anonymous author, and transmitted orally for years or geneartions before being written down. Usually undergone modificiation through process of oral transmission | folk ballad |
| basic unit used in scansion or measurement of verse. | foot |
| external pattern or shape of poem, describable without reference to its content | form |
| 14 line poem usually divided between octave, using 2 rhymes arranages abbaabba, and sestet, using any arrangement of either 2 or 3 rhymes: cdcdcd and cedcde common patterns. | Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet |
| unrhymed poetic form, Japanese in origin, contains 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, respectively | haiku |
| fixed form consisting of five lines of anapestic meter, first 2 trimeter, next 2 dimeter, last line trimeter, rhyming aabba | limerick |
| characterized by use of conceits condensed metaphorical language, unusual comparisons between medicine, love, death, and religion, and complex imagery | metaphysical poetry |
| regularized rhythm, arrangement of language in which accents occur at apparently equal intervals in time. | meter |
| figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of experience is used to represent whole experience | metonymy |
| atmosphere created for reader by text. | mood |
| serious and dignified lyric poem written to celebrate event of honor a person | ode |
| use of series of words, phrases, or sentences have similar grammatical form | parallelism |
| refers to country life of innocent sheep and shepherds. This type of writing may celebrate country idyll or condemn innocents for their naivete | pastoral |
| any false emotionalism resulting in too impassioned description of nature. It is carrying over inanimate objects of moods and passions of human being. phrase coined by Ruskin to denote tendency to credit nature with human emotions | pathetic fallacy |
| repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines, normally at some fixed position in poem written in stanzaic form | refrain |
| repetition of accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds | rhyme |
| rhymes when sounds involve more than one syllable. Rhyme in which repeated accented vowel in either second or third last syllable of words involved | feminine rhyme |
| rhyme when sounds involve only 1 syllable. Rhyme in which repeated accented vowel sound is final syllable of words involved. | masculine rhyme |
| any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing whole poem or its stanzas | rhyme scheme |
| any wavelike recurrence of motion or sounds | rhythm |
| process of measuring verse, that is, of making accented and unaccented syllalbes, dividing lines into feet, identifying metrical pattern, and noting sigificant variations from that pattern | scansion |
| fixed form of 14 lines, normally iambic pentameter, with rhyme scheme conforming to or approximating one of 2 main types, Italian or English | sonnet |
| group of lines whose metrical pattern repeated throughout poem | stanza |
| form taken by poem when written in series of units having same number of lines and usually other characterisitcs in common, such as metrical pattern or rhyme scheme | stanzaic form |
| internal organization of poem's content | structure |
| word choice and arrangement in any kind of writing | style |
| figure of speech in which part is used for whole, usually subsumed under broader term metonymy | synecdoche |
| way words put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences | syntax |
| writer or speaker's attitude toward subject matter, audience, or her/himself; emotional coloring, or emotional meaning, of word | tone |
| metrical language; opposite of prose | verse |
| positioning of words in relation to one another | word order |
Created by:
GirlyShirley
Popular English Vocabulary sets