Vocabulary For Poetry Flashcards
(20 cards)
Simile
comparison of 2 things using like or as
Metaphor
comparison of 2 things without using like or as
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Imagery
Allusion
Tone
Hyperbole
exaggeration of poetry
Alliteration
repeating the first consonant
Assonance
repeating of vowel sound in a line of a poem
Consonance
repeating consonants sounds
End rhyme
when one word at the end of a line rhymes with another word at the end of another line
Internal rhyme
when one word in the middle of a line rhymes with another word in the middle of the line under it
Stanza
A paragraph in a poem
Couplet
2 lines where the last words have the same sound
Quatrain
a 4 line paragraph with the same idea
Enjambment
a long sentence that takes up more than one line
Free Verse
a poem that doesn’t rhyme
Persona
not the author but the person who is narrating the poem
Character
another person in the poem
