Poetry Terms Flashcards

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What is Alliteration?

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The repetition of initial consonant sounds. Ex: On the bald street breaks the blank day.

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What is Allusion?

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A reference to a person, place, thing, event or idea in history or literature used to suggest an emotion or idea. Ex: an allusion to the Garden of Eden might suggest a notion of paradise.

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What is Apostrophe in poetry?

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A figure of speech in which the poem’s speaker addresses someone absent or dead, or something nonhuman as if it were alive.

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What is Assonance?

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The repetition, at close intervals, of vowel sounds.

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What is a Ballad?

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A fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form.

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What is Consonance?

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The repetition, at close intervals, of consonant sounds found within or at the end of words.

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What is a Couplet?

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A 2-line stanza, which may or may not rhyme.

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What is End Rhyme?

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Rhyme that comes at the end of lines. Ex: 'It runs and it creeps/ For awhile, till it sleeps'.

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What is Eye Rhyme?

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

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What is Figurative Language?

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Words that are literally inaccurate but are used to describe or define something, often using metaphors or similes.