poetry Flashcards
(27 cards)
alliteration
repetition of consonant sounds
Example: “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping”
approx. rhyme
when two words rhyme, but not exactly
ex. hollow & mellow
connotation
emotional feeling associated w. a word
couplet
two lines which rhyme
diction
word choice
[formal/standard/Informal - colloquial - slang]
end rhyme
rhyme @ the end of a line
images
words or phrases that appeal to the senses
internal rhyme
rhymes w/in a line [NOT at the end]
metaphor
figure of speech - comparison w/o like, as, then, etc
onomatopoeia
words that imitates sounds [snap, crackle, pOp]
personification
giving smth non HUMAN human-like qualities
rhyme scheme
pattern of rhymes in a poem
simile
figure of speech; comparison using like, as, than, etc
stanza
sections of a poem
tone
author’s attitude towards an audience/reader
stress
emphasis on a word’s syllable
rhythm
musical quality that’s created by stress/unstressed syllables.
poetic FOOT
at least one stressed syllable
meter
a regular pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables
scanning
determining meter [putting stress marks in]
free verse
a poem that has no pattern/meter
iambic meter [+ who uses this meter always?]
[U / ] shakespeare
trochaic
[/ U ] opposite of iambic
anapestic
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