English Terminology Flashcards
(30 cards)
Alliteration
Associations
Assonance
Repeated vowel sounds in nearby stressed syllables.
Caesura
A pause in a line of poetry.
Couplet
A pair of successive lines of verse, typically rhyming and of the same length.
Dialect
A variety of speech or language different from the standard language.
Dramatic monologue
Enjambment
The continuation of a sentence beyond the end of a line, couplet or stanza.
Free Verse
Poetry with no regular metre or rhyme pattern.
Form
Imagery
Imagery refers to the kinds of word pictures an author creates to help us imagine what is being described.
Metaphor
Direct comparison of one thing to another without using ‘as’ or ‘like.’
Metre
The rhythmic arrangement of syllables in a poem.
Onomatopoeia
A word whose sound imitates and therefore suggests its meaning. e.g(hiss, crackle, wizz.)
Oxymoron
The conjunction of two mutually contradictory words, describing something in terms of its opposite. e.g( ‘darkness visible’)
Personification
The attribution of human qualities to objects or abstract notions.
Refrain
Chorus or repeated line.
Rhyme
Words that end with the same sound.
Rhyme Scheme
A rhyme scheme is the term we use to describe the way a writer organises rhyming words.
Rhythm
The pattern of sound in a poem, its beat.
Simile
A comparison using ‘like’ or ‘as’
Sonnet
A short poem with 14 lines
Speaker
A term to describe the fictional speaker of a poem.
Stanza
The grouping of lines in a poem - also known as ‘verse.’
