Life Pac 5 Flashcards
(35 cards)
Anapest
A metrical foot of 3 syllables two unaccented followed by one accented or two short followed by one long
alliteration
A repetition of the same sound or letter in a group of words or a line of poetry
Assonance
A resemblance in the sound of words or syllables. A substitute for rhyme in which vowels are alike but the consonants are different
Connotation
What is suggested in a word in addition to the literal meaning
Consonance
A musical effect used by poets which uses a correspondence of consonant sounds
Dactyl
A metrical foot having one accented or long syllable followed by two unaccented or short syllables
Denotative meaning
The literal meaning of a word. The dictionary definitions
Dominant foot
The foot used to form the basis of the meter the foot most frequently used in a particular poem
Iamb
A common metrical foot in English poetry consisting of two unaccented syllables. Most common metrical foot. Da dum sound pattern
Ideal
A standard of perfection
Imagery
To form pictures in your mind
Pyrrhic
A measure in poetry that consist of two unaccented syllables
Metaphor
An implied comparison between two different things
Onomatopoeia
To use a word that imitates a sound associated with a specific object
Pantheism
The doctrine that the whole universe is god or a manifestation of god
Personification
To represent a lifeless thing or quality as if it were alive
Simile
A statement that one thing is like another. Uses as and like
Spondee
A metrical foot composed of two accented syllables
Trochee
A two syllable foot that stresses the first syllable
Universal
A condition principle emotion eat applicable to and understand by all people.
Annabel lee
Poe
Young grimes
Come up from the fields father
Walt Whitman
Gloss
David McCord
The harbor
Carl Sandburg
