English Exam Notecards Flashcards
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Narrative Poetry
A form of poetry that tells a story, featuring elements like plot, characters, and setting. Often uses rhyme/rhythm.
Lyric Poetry
A type of poetry that expresses a speaker’s emotion and thought. Highly musical.
Haiku
A short, unrhymed Japanese poetic form consisting of 3 lines, with 5-7 syllables per line. Often focuses on nature or a moment in time.
Concrete Poetry
A poem where the visual arrangement of words on a page creates a picture or shape that relates to the poems.
Stanzas
A group of lines that are separated from other stanzas by a blank line or indentation.
Punctuation
A poetic device that helps the readers understand the rhythm, meaning , and the flow of the poem.
Form
Poetic from refers to the structure and arrangement of a poem.
Meter
The rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.
Rhythm
The pattern recurrence of sounds often based on stress and unstressed syllables (or beat).
Rhyme
The repetition of sounds in nearby words.
End rhyme
When the last syllables within a verse rhyme.
Exact rhyme
A type of rhyme frequently used in poetry, where rhyme sounds are exactly alike.
Half rhymes
A poetic device in which assonance and consonants are used to connect words that do not technically rhyme, but have similar sounds.
Internal rhyme
A rhyme that occurs in the middle of lines poetry.
Rhyme scheme
The pattern of rhyme at the end of each line of a poem or song.
Figurative language (or figures of speech)
Use of words and phrases that go beyond their literal meaning to create comparisons, imaginary, and the deeper meaning through devices.
Simile
A figure of speech that compares 2 unlike things using words like or as.
Metaphor
I figure of speech that directly compares to unlike things by stating that one thing is another.
Hyperbole
A figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration for absence or affect.
Extended metaphor
Literary device that compares two things using multiple lines or the entire poem.
Personification
When human qualities, actions, or characteristics are attributed to animals, inanimate, objects, or abstract ideas.
Alliteration
The repetition of similar sounds at the start of a series of words
Consonance
The repetition of consonant sounds, in the middle or end of the nearby words.
Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds in the middle or end of nearby words.
