Literary Terms 1-18 Flashcards
(18 cards)
Repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words
Assonance
Repetition of beginning sounds, usually consonants
Alliteration
A song like poem that tells a story
Ballad
Poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Blank verse
A poem whose shape suggests the subject of the poem
Concrete poem
Similar to alliteration but the repetition of similar consonant sounds can be at the beginning or end of the word
Consonance
A successive pair of lines of poetry that are usually rhymed
Couplet
A poem that laments the death if a person or thing or one that is simply dad and thoughtful
Elegy
A long serious poem that tells the story of a heroic figure
Epic poem
Writing or speech not meant to be taken literally
Figurative language
Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Free verse
A group of syllables forming the basic unit of verse meter
Foot
A Japanese poem composed of 3 unrhymed lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables
Haiku
A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis
Hyperbole
A metrical foot of 2 syllables one short and one long
Iamb
Language that appeals to one or more of the senses
Imagery
A light humorous nonsensical or bawdy verse of 5 anapestic lines with the rhyme scheme aabba. The 1st 2nd and 5th have 9 syllables and the 3rd and 4th lines have 6 syllables. The first line introduces a person and a place
Limerick
Live break
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