Pink Bible Flashcards
VOCAB (28 cards)
Alliteration
The occurrence of the same letter or sounds at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Allusion
A brief reference to a real or fictional person, even, place, or work of art.
Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text.
Ballad
A story/narrative in poetic form
Consonance
The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text.
Diction
The author’s specific word choice.
Enjambment
This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.
Free Verse
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.
Metaphor
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using “like” or “as”
Meter
The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, Including the poet’s placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line.
Onomatopoeia
A word that sounds like what it means.
Rhythm
The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry.
Simile
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using “like” or “as”.
Stanza
A unified group if lines in poetry. “mini paragraph”
Symbol
An object or action that means more than its literal meaning
Theme
The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader.
Tone
The attitude the poem’s narrator takes toward a subject or character.
Verse
A single line of poetry.
Hyperbole
an exaggeration.
Repetition
when words, verses, or stanzas are repeated to help create mood.
Paradox
a contradiction that has some truth to it
Personification
When you give human qualities/traits to a non-living object or thing.
Internal Rhyme
When words rhyme inside/within the same line
External Rhyme
When words rhyme at the end of different lines.
