Poetry Terms Flashcards
(11 cards)
Allegory/extended metaphor
The saying of one thing but meaning another, often a story of fable with a clear meaning behind the literal sense
Alliteration
The repetition of the same consonants (usually the initial sounds of words or of stressed syllables) at the start of several words or syllables in sequence or in close proximity to
each other.
Anaphora
Rhetorical device that involves repeating a word of phrase in successive sentences
Assonance
Resemblance of sound between syllables in nearby words
e.g. killed, culled, cold’
Asyndeton
absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence, as in I came, I saw, I conquered.
Blank Verse
verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameters.
Caesura
A pause or breathing-place about the middle of a metrical line, generally indicated by a
pause in the sense.
Couplet
A rhymed pair of lines
e.g Keats often uses rhyming couplets for at the end of his sonnets
Enjambent
Enjambement: The effect achieved when the syntax of a line of verse transgresses the limits set
by the metre at the end of the verse.
End Stop
contrary of enjambment
Feminine Rhyme
The rhyme of 2 syllables is unstressed
Signature of Keats who was criticised by other romantic writers
