Vocabulary Flashcards
(40 cards)
Allegory
A story with a literal and an implied level of meaning.
Alliteration
the recurrence of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby stressed syllables, as in “ lively lads and lasses.”
Antagonist
opponent of protagonist or adversary of hero.
Consonance
the recurrence of consonant sounds in nearby stressed syllables as in “ my love doth live”
Ballad
A short simple narrative song
Caesuras
a break or a pause between words within a metrical foot.
Assonance
the recurrence of vowel sounds in nearby stressed syllables as in “ her fears and tears.”
Dialect
the manner of speech characteristic of a certain area or class.
Elegy
originally any poem of solemn meditation. Now a formal poem lamenting the death of a particular person or meditating on the subject of death itself.
End Rhyme
refers to rhymes at the end of lines.
Fable
a brief tale with a moral point and generally with non human characters.
Free verse
poetry without rhyme or meter.
Genre
standard or category of literature
Hyperbole
exaggeration : implies less than what is said.
Imperfect rhyme
includes partial rhyme or eye rhyme.
Metaphor
the expression of one thing in terms of another.
Meter
the regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry.
Occasional verse
poetry written to enhance or make memorable a particular occasion, normally public and contemporary.
Onomatopoeia
the use of words that sound like what they mean eg . Boom, hiss, moan, murmur.
Paradox
a seeming contradiction eg. “ death, thou shalt die”
Partial or slant rhyme
shows agreement in terminal consonant sounds but disagreement in the preceding vowel sounds.
Perfect rhyme
agreement of sounds from the last stressed sound onwards with a difference in the immediately preceding consonant sounds.
Personification
giving of personal characteristics to something that is not a person.
Plot
a connected series of incidents.
