Poetic Metalanguage Flashcards
(23 cards)
Enjambment
A run-on line of poetry where logical and gramatical sense carries over to the next line
Epigraph
A short verse/quote that appears at the start of a poem/book/chapter, after the title
Epigram
A brief, witty poem, often satirical
Falling meter
Poetic meters that fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable
e.g. Dactylic, Trochaic
Dactylic meter
Accent on first syllable and the two syllables after falling from that accent in each word
e.g. higgledy, piggledgy
Trochaic meter
Accent on first syllable, unstressed second syllable
e.g. hip-hop, be-bop, treetop
Figurative language
Writer conveys something other than the literal meaning of their words
e.g. hyperbole, understatement, simile/metaphor
Iamb
Unstressed sylable followed by a stressed one
Image/Imagery
Concrete representation of an impression/feeling/idea
Lyric poem
Poetry characterized by brevity, conciseness, and the expression of feeling
(most poems in Cyrano are lyrics)
Metonymy
Figure of speech where a closely related term is substituted for an object/idea
e.g. remaining loyal to the crown (not king/queen)
Polysyndeton
Repetition of conjunctions (and, but, for, etc.) to connect words, clauses or sentences
Pyrrhic
Metrical foot with two unstressed syllables
Sestet
Six-line unit of verse that creates a stanza
Sestina
Poem of 39 lines, written in iambic pentameter
- 6*6 line stanzas where the last word of each line is repeated in each stanza
- 3 line envoi which uses the 6 repeating words
Sonnet
14 line poem in iambic pentameter
Synecdoche
Figure of speech, a part is substituted for the whole
e.g. lend me a hand
Tercet
A 3 line stanza
Trochee
Accented syllable followed by an unaccented one
Allusion
Reference to history, literature or religion adds meaning
Anaphora
Use of successive phrases/lines beginnignw ith the same word/s
Ekphrasis
A text based off a visual text (usually art)
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds in words close together
