Poetry Flashcards
Metaphor
Direct comparison between two unlike things not using like or as
Personification
Giving human qualities to a non-human figure
Hyperbole
Exaggeration for emphasis or humorous effect
Alliteration
The repetition of initial consonant sounds
Consonance
The repetition of consonant sounds within and at the ends of words
Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds in unrhymed words
Onomoatopoeia
Using words that imitate sounds
Allusion
An indirect reference to a famous person,place,event, or literary work
Diction
A writer’s choice of words and way of arranging sentences
Irony
When a author says the opposite of what he/she means for effect
Connotation
An author’s attitude toward his/her subject
Tone
The emotional associations of a word, beyond its dictionary definition
SOAPST
Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone
Enjambment
The continuation of a sentence after a stanza, line, or couplet
End-stop
When. Line in poetry stops with a period
