Giving human traits to non-human things

Descriptive language that appeals to the senses

Use of symbols to represent ideas

Repetition of similar sounding words

Poetry without regular rhyme or meter

14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme

3-line poem with 5-7-5 syllable pattern

Humorous 5-line poem with AABBA rhyme scheme

Continuation of a sentence without pause

A pause within a line of poetry

Repeated line or group of lines

Formal, often ceremonious lyric poem

Narrative poem, often set to music

Long narrative poem about heroic deeds

A narrative poem often set to music

rhyme that comes at the end of lines. Ex. “It runs and it creeps/ For awhile, till it sleeps”

words that look alike but do not sound alike. Ex: bough, cough; brow, blow.

rhyme that comes within one or several lines. Ex: I wished upon the most beautiful moon in June and hope/ that soon I will fall in love

a short poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a first-person narrator and is characterized by its musical qualities.

a poem which is written in prose format; i.e. it has no fixed lines

the pattern of end rhymes denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c, d…) where each letter represents a new rhyme.

words, usually in a set rhyme scheme, which have similar sounds but are not perfect rhymes. Also called approximate rhyme, imperfect rhyme, or near rhyme. Ex: arrayed/said.

another name for poetry derived from the Latin “vers” meaning “to turn.” It refers to the fact that poetry lines “turn” at a specific point versus prose, which has no fixed lines.

Speaker in a poem addresses a person not present or an animal, inanimate object, or concept as though it is a person . Example: Wordsworth--"Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour / England has need of thee"

A complete and detailed analysis of a work of literature, often word-by-word and line-by-line

A measured combination of heavy and light stresses. The numbers of feet are given below. monometer (1 foot) dimeter (2 feet) trimeter (3 feet) tetrameter (4 feet) pentameter (5 feet) hexameter (6 feet) heptameter or septenary (7 feet)

A line ending in a full pause, usually indicated with a period or semicolon.

two successive rhyming lines of iambic pentameter; the second line is usually end-stopped.

Iamb (iambic): an unstressed stressed foot.The most natural and common kind of meter in English; it elevates speech to poetry.

A sonnet (14 lines of rhyming iambic pentameter) that divides into an octave (8) and sestet (6). There is a "volta," or "turning" of the subject matter between the octave and sestet.

Pyrrhic foot (prosody):

two unstressed feet (an "empty" foot) Quatrain: a four-line stanza or poetic unit. In an English or Shakespearean sonnet, a group of four lines united by rhyme

Double rhyme or trochaic rhyme

rhyming words of two syllables in which the first syllable is accented (flower, shower)

the process of marking beats in a poem to establish the prevailing metrical pattern (anapest, dactyl, spondee, trochee)

unstressed unstressed stressed. Also called "galloping meter." Example: 'Twas the NIGHT before CHRISTmas, and ALL through the HOUSE/ Not a CREAture was STIRring, not EVen a MOUSE."

stressed unstressed unstressed. This pattern is more common (as dactylic hexameter) in Latin poetry than in English poetry. Example: GRAND go the YEARS in the CREScent aBOVE them/WORLDS scoop their ARCS/ and FIRMaments ROW (Emily Dickinson, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers")

🦊 Ms. Fox's EOC English 2 Poetry Terms Flashcards

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Alliteration

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Repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds

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Metaphor

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Direct comparison between two unlike things

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Simile

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Comparison using 'like' or 'as'

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that imitate sounds

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration for effect

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