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30 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
- 3rd side (hint)
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Alliteration |
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Assonance |
Repetition of vowel sounds |
"As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives." |
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Consonance |
Repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in the words |
"Hi*ck*ory, di*ck*ort, do*ck* |
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Foot |
One unit of meter. |
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Lambric |
Unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
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Trochaic |
Stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable |
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Spondaic |
Two stressed syllables in a row |
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Pyrrhic |
Two unstressed syllables in a row |
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Anapestic |
Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable |
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Dactylic |
Stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables |
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Meter |
The rhythm of a poem, dependent on the number of syllables and how they are accented |
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Mood |
A poem's feeling or atmosphere |
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Acrostic |
A poem in which the first letter of each line forms a word when read from top to bottom |
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Ballad |
A poem narrating a story in stanzas, often quatrains |
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Blank Verse |
Poetry that is metered but not rhymed |
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Cinquatin |
A five line poem with specified syllabi emphasis, depending on the type of cinquain |
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Concrete |
A poem written into a familiar shape relating to the poem's meaning |
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Elegy |
A poem about SOMEONE'S DEATH |
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epic |
A long poem about the adventure of a hero |
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Free Verse |
Poetry that is neither rhyme nor meter |
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Haiku |
A Japanese form of poetry that contains three lines of five seven and five syllables in that order |
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Limerick |
A humorous five line poem with a rhyme scheme of AABBA |
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Lyric |
A poem expressing personal emotions |
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Ode |
A lyric poem addressed to a particular subject which often contains lofty imagery |
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Sonnet |
A 14 line poem |
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Repetition |
Using a word or phrase more than once for rhythm or emphasis example show men dutiful |
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Rhyme |
The repetition of ending word sounds can be internally rhyme with in a line or end rhyme the words at the end of the lines rhyme with each other |
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Rhythm |
The pattern of sound with a poem |
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Stanza |
Groups of lines of poetry named for how many lines they contain |
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Verse |
A line of metered poetry named for the number of feet per line |
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