Figurative Language/Poetic Terms Flashcards
Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words
Consonance
The repetition of consonant sounds within and at the end of words
Onomatopoeia
The use of words whose sounds echo their meanings
Blank verse
Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter
Couplet
A rhymed pair of lines
Hyperbole
The figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated or emphasis or humorous effect
Iambic pentameter
A metrical pattern of five feet, or units, each of which is made up of two syllables, the first unstressed and the second stressed
Imagery
Descriptive words and phrases that create sensory experiences for the reader
Metaphor
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically unlike but have something in common
Oxymoron
Special kind of concise paradox that brings together two contradictory terms
Meter
A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem
Personification
A figure of speech in which human qualities are given to an object, animal, or idea.
Quatrain
A four line stanza in poetry
Rhyme
The occurrence of similar or identical sounds at the end of two or more words
Repetition
A technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis
