ela poetry terms pt 2 Flashcards
(44 cards)
internal rhyme
rhyme that occurs within a line
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore–
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping….
example of internal rhyme
lyric poem
any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feeling.
examples of lyric poems:
sonnets and odes
masculine rhyme
rhyme that falls on the stressed and concluding syllables of the rhyme-words.
“keep, sleep” “glow, no”
examples of masculine rhymes
metaphor
comparision is expressed wihout using like or as
meter
the repetiiton of a regular rhymthic unit in a line of poetry. MUSICAL QUALITY. each unit of meter is known as a foot
metonymy
substituion of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself.
king->”crown”
example of metonymy
mixed metaphors
one metaphor with another immediately following it
“I smell a rat. I see it floating in the air. I shall nip it in its bud.”
example of mixed metaphors
narrative poem
non-dramatic poem telling a story/presents a narrative.
examples of narrative poems:
epics and ballads
octave
an 8-line stanza
octave also refers to what?
the first division of an italian sonnet.
oxymoron
a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression
“pretty ugly”
example of oxymoron
paradox
appears to be contradictory but is actually kinda true and makes sense
parallelism
a similar gramatical structure within a line or lines of poetry.”
“musing, venturing, throwing, seeking…
Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold, till the gossamer thread..”
example of parralelism
poetic foot
a group of syllables in verse usually consiting of one stressedsyllable and one or two unstressed syllables associated with it.
pun
a play on words that are identical/similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanigs
Quatrain
a four line stanza.
