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english 11 final rev
english 11 traits of poetry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Refrain | a repeated phrase. |
| dramatic situation | the speaker, audience, setting, mood, & purpose of the poem |
| imagery | words that engage the five sense |
| metaphor | implicit comparison of unlike things |
| simile | explicit comparison of unlike things using comparing words |
| synesthesia | purposeful confusion of the sense |
| conceit | complex metaphor extended throughout an entire poem |
| personification | giving human qualities to inanimate objects or abstraction |
| repetition | the repetition of a sentences or words |
| parallelism | balanced syntax |
| juxtaposition | normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases placed next to one another for contrast |
| enjambment | ending lines without punctuation or natural pauses |
| end-stopped line | a line break that is marked by punctuation or natural pause |
| antithesis | contrast of ideas in a parallel structure |
| paradox | a seeming self-contradiction that conveys a truth |
| oxymoron | a self-contradictory phrase/ a highly compressed paradox |
| allusion | meaningful artistic/cultural/historical reference |
| apostrophe | addressing a dead or absent person or an inanimate object/idea |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| syntax | word order |
| diction | word choice |
| inversion | reversal of usual syntax |
| tone | poem's mood or emotion |
| end rhyme | rhyme at the end of line |
| eye rhyme | words that only appear to rhyme |
| internal rhyme | rhyme within a line of poetry |
| near/half/slant rhyme | partial rhyme |
| alliteration | repetition of initial sounds in 2 or more words |
| consonance | repetition of non initial condonant sound |
| assonance | repetition of a vowels sounds |
| cacophony/dissonance | use of words/sounds to create ugly, jarring, or discordant sounds |
| euphony | the use of sounds or words create beauty or harmony |
| anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of phrases, line or clause |
| onomatopoeia | use of sounds that echo meaning |
| caesura | strong mid-line pause |
| aubade | morning poem |
| epithalamium | wedding poem |
| serenade | evening poem |
| elegy | a poem lamenting a loss |
| pastoral | a poem that idealizes rural life and love |
| dramatic monologue | a poem in which one speaker reveals him/herself to a silent audience |
| ode | a poem celebrating a person, thing, event or abstraction |
| free verse | poetry without rhyme or meter |
| metrical verse | poetry with meter |
| iamb meter | unstressed; stressed |
| trochee | stressed; unstressed |
| anapest | 2unstressed, stressed |
| dactyl | stressed;2unstressed |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter ( 5 feet in line) |
| ballad | a poem, often narrative, usually in 4line stanzas that ryhme ABAB or ABCB with the metrical pattern of 4stressed, 3stressed, 4stressed, 3stressed |
| haiku | a non narrative syllabic verse from of japanese origin with 3 line of 5, 7 & 5 syllables captures naturals images in moment of intense perception |
| sonnet | a poem of 14 lines of rhyming iambic pentameter |
| couplet | a pair of consecutive rhyming lines |
| tercet | a group of 3 lines |
| quatrain | a group of 4 lines |
Created by:
jduboille
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