Final Flashcards
Metaphor
A figure of speech that makes comparison between two unlike things WITHOUT using like or as
Simile
A common figure of speech that makes a comparison using like or as
Personification
A form of metaphor in which the human characteristics are attributed to non-human things
Hyperbole
A bodly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true
Lyric poem
A short subjective poem that presents the thoughts and emotions of speaker
Epic poem
Lengthy narrative poem that features a central hero
Ballad
A short narrative poem
English/Shakespearean sonnet
Specific rhyme scheme that Shakespeare commonly used
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Italian/ Petrarchan Sonnet
14 line rhyme scheme first 8 are ABBA ABBA with last 6 not being a order
Villanelle
A 19- line poem, divided into 5 tercets + 1 quatrain rhyme scheme ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA
Elegy
A somber poem, written on the occasion of someone’s death
Haiku
A 3- line poem, with 5 7 5 syllable count
Syllable
An individual unit of sound
Stressed syllable =/
Unstressed = )
Meter
The number and arrangement of syllables in a line of poetry
Iambic meter
The arrangement of syllables are one unstressed followed by one stressed syllables
Metrical form / lengths
1 foot = monometer 5 feet = pentameter
2 feet = diameter 6 feet = hexameter
3 feet = trimeter. 7 feet= heptameter
4 feet = tetrameter
Rhyme
The reputation of same or exact sounds at the end of verse
Exact rhyme
The same stressed vowel sounds sharing sounds that follow the vowel
Eye rhyme
Words that may look alike but no sound match ( tough, bongh , through)
Off rhyme
Two words that are not exactly the same but there is sound connection
Rhyme scheme
The sequence or pattern of rhyme within a poem
Refrain
Reputation of same verse, usually to show importance and value
Stanza forms
2 lines= couplet 5 lines= quintet
3 lines = tercet/ triplet 6 lines = sestet
4 lines = quatrain 7 lines = heptet
8 lines = octave
Blank verse
Lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter
