Poetry Flashcards
(27 cards)
Longfellow
Christmas bells
At the sea side
Rob Louis Stevenson
Billy Collins
Intro to poetry
Robert Francis
The base stealer
Edgar Allen Poe
The raven
Basho
Autumn lost dude frog
Buson
Leaves gathering
Issa
Winter loser
Intonation-
sarcasm
Stanza-
paragraph division of poem
Rhyme-
repitition of sounds in poetry
Metrical foot-
repeating power of stressed or unstressed syllables. 2 or three syllables unstressed or stressed. Shakespeare used Iambic pentameter.
Repitition-
purposeful effect any word or phrase that repeats
Illiteration
is the repeated sound. Originally was stressed syllable has a stressed sound
Consonance
repeating sound
Lyric poetry-
a poem set to music originally the lyre
Free verse-
needs rhythm and still needs to adhere to the common set up of poetry makes you think
Haiku-
usually about nature 575 syllable breakdown usually something called a cutting sharp turn usually the last line is a contrast to the rest of the poem
Kijo-
somewhere in the poem there is a word or phrase that references the season of the poem
Form-
style of poem; syllable count
Genre-
what the content is about
Onomatopoeia
: the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss)
Imagery
Being very descriptive
Diction
.verbal description