poetic terminology Flashcards
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The emotion that the poet is conveying to the reader
Tone
A comparison when we say one thing is ‘like’ something else
Simile
A pair of consecutive rhyming lines
Rhyming couplet
Pause or break in a line of poetry
Caesura
A figure of speech that compares unlike objects
Metaphor
The meanings implied by a particular word
connotation
A group of words that together create a theme in a text. E.g blood, ooze is a semantic field of violence
Samantic field
A trio of rhyming lines
Rhyming triplet
Extreme exaggeration
Hyperbole
Where a word or phrase has 2 or more possible meanings
Ambiguity
A variations language spoken by people from a certain place or background
Dialect
Repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming
assonance
The central idea of the poem- what the poem Is about
Theme
A word which mimics the sound or action it refers to
Onomatopeia
Line of verse with 5 metrical feet, each one consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (stressed) syllable.
Iambic pentametre
Use of hard, strong consonant sounds b, d, k, p at the beginning of words
Plosive
When an object represents something else
Symbolism
When words are used to imply the opposite of what they normally mean or when there is a difference between what people expect and what actually happens
Irony
Something that makes you feel a particular emotion
emotive
A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a second meaning
Allegory
A group of lines within a poem
Stanza
When animals or objects are said to have human characteristics
Personification
Repetition of consonant sounds in nearby words
consonance
When a line of poetry runs not the next line creating a flowing effect
Enjambment
