Poetry Definitions Flashcards
(16 cards)
Narrator
The speaker and from whose perspective we see what’s being described
Closed form
Regularity in rhyme, metre and line length
Stanza
The units of the poem, like paragraphs
Quatrain
A stanza with four lines
Rhyme
The matching of the final sound of one word with another
End rhyme
Rhymes at the end of a line
Internal rhyme
A word in the middle of the line rhyming with the one at the end
Near rhyme
When the vowel sounds in a word rhyme and the constants don’t. Example:wide- alive
Assonance
The repetition of similar vowel sounds in nearby words. Example: wide-ride
Alliteration
The repetition of constants sounds at the start of words beside each other or nearby. Example: slow, smelly, skunk
Personification
Describing objects or ideas with human characteristics. Example: the pen came alive in her hand
Repetition
The repeating of particular words or phrases. Example: woof, woof, woof
Onomatopoeia
Words that sound like they describe. Example: BANG!!
Simile
A figure of speech that compares two things, indicated by words such a, “as, like, than.” Example: as light as a feather
Metaphor
When something is described by saying it is something else. Example: she’s a wizard at maths
Irony
The opposite of what would be expected. Example: getting run over by an ambulance
