Poem Notes Flashcards
(30 cards)
Diction
Word Choice
Meaning Devices
The use of diction and figurative language (metaphor, simile, personification, allusion, apostrophe, synecdoche, etc.) to convey ideas
Metaphor
The most important and wide spread figure of speech, One thing, idea, or action referred to by a word or expression normally associated with another thing, idea or action
Simile
A less direct metaphor, using like or as
Personification
The technique by which animals, abstract ideas, or inanimate objects are referred to as if they were human
Allusion
An indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place or artistic work that the author assumes the reader will understand
Apostrophe
A rhetorical device in which the speaker addresses (speaks to) a dead or absent person, or an inanimate object
Imagery
The purposeful and meaningful use of words appealing to any of the senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, smell)
Synecdoche
Figure of speech that utilizes a part of something to represent the whole.
Sound
The intentional use of consonant/vowel sounds (assonance, alliteration, rhyme, etc.) and accented/unaccented syllables (rhythm/meter) to add emphasis or create an intended effect
Assonance
The general repetition of vowel sounds in poetry
Consonance
The general repetition of consonant sounds in poetry
Alliteration
The repetition of sounds at the beginnings of words
Exact Rhyme
When words intended to rhyme mirror each other almost exactly in their consonance and assonance
End Rhyme
Words rhyme at the ends of lines
Internal Rhyme
A word within a line of poetry rhymes with a word at the end of the line
Slant Rhyme
Also called “approximate” rhyme, when two words come close to rhyming without being exact rhyme
Rhythm/Meter
The patterned flow of sound in poetry and prose. Created by sound devices.
Structure
The way a poem is or is not organized into lines and stanzas
Stanzaic
The poetry is intentionally organized into specific groups of lines that contain some combination of rhyme and meter
Free Verse
The poem has very little specific pattern in the way the lines and/or stanzas are organized
Context
Information that you bring to your interpretation from outside of the poem. Could be biographical, historical, philosophical, religious, political, personal, etc.
TP-CASTT
Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude, Shifts, Title, Theme
Title
Ponder the title before reading the poem
