Vocabulary Flashcards
What is a group of lines that’s are linked together often by a thought.? Similar to a paragraph in pose.
Stanza.
What is the repetition of similar sounds at the end of a word?
Rhyme.
What is the pattern of end rhyme in a poem?
Rhyme scheme.
What is a sound of poetry?
Rhythm.
What’s a repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables?
Meter.
What’s a pair of rhyming lines in a poem?
Couplet.
What’s a four-line poem or stanza usually united by meter and rhyme?
Quatrain.
What’s the deliberate use and arrangement of words to create a special effect? They include words, phrases, symbols and ideas that evoke mental images and sensory impressions.
Figurative language.
What’s a comparison of two things that have a quality in common? Uses the words like or as.
Simile.
What’s a comparison of two things that have a quality in common? But It doesn’t use like or as it states that one thing is something else.
Metaphor.
What is a metaphor that is developed over many lines of writing over the course of an entire poem?
Extended metaphor.
What’s the use of a person, place or object to stand for something other than itself?
Symbolism
What’s the repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of words?
Alliteration.
What’s the repetition of a constant sound in several words and a line or stanza?
Consonance.
What’s the repetition of a vowel sound in several words and a line or stanza?
Assonance.
