Literary Terms --- Poetry Flashcards
Repetition of words or sounds within lines or at the ends of lines
Rhyme
Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Rhythm or Meter
Words or phrases that recreate a feeling (appeals to one of the five senses)
Imagery
Images that depart from standard wording to achieve a particular meaning or effect
Figures of Speech
An exaggeration — can be for serious or for comic effect
Hyperbole
“I will love thee until the seas go dry.”
Hyperbole
A direct comparison of two unlike things
Metaphor
“He was an eagle, soaring above our heads.”
Metaphor
A statement that first appears false, but is actually true
Paradox
“When we live no more, we may live forever.”
Paradox
Giving human qualities to something non-human
Personification
“Because I could not stop for death / He kindly stopped for me.”
Personification
A comparison between two unlike things using like or as
Simile
“What happens to a dream deferred? / does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”
Simile
A part of an object standing for the whole thing
Synecdoche
