Poetry Defenitions Flashcards
(14 cards)
Assonance
The repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds within words, phrases or sentences
Alliteration
The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighbouring words or syllables
Consonance
A resemblance sound between two words, or an initial rhyme
Rhyme
Two or more words with similar sounding syllables placed as so to echo each other
Imagery
Imagery is a vivid vibrant form of description that appeals to the readers senses and imagination
Metaphor
A comparison between two things that state one thing is another in order to help explain an idea or show similarities
Simile
A figure of speech and a type of metaphor that compares two different things using the words like or as
Juxstaposition
A literary technique that places to unlike things next to one another it brings together disparate ideas, characters, descriptions, places
Personification
To give human like characteristics to an animal or object
Enjabment
The continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next
Repetition
The use of the same word multiple times
Meter
The rythmic pattern of a poetic line
Irony
implies a distance between what is said and what is meant. Based on the context, the reader is able to see the implied meaning in spite of the contradiction.
Onomatopoeia
Words that describe the sound something makes like pop bang snap
