Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
54 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Lyric
|
subjective, reflexive poetry with rhyme scheme and meter which reveals poet's thoughts and feelings to create a singe, unique impression
|
|
|
Narrative
|
non-dramatic, objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter which relates a story or narrative
|
|
|
Sonnet
|
a rigid 14-line verse form, with variable structure and rhyme scheme according to type
|
|
|
Ode
|
elaborate lyric verse which deals seriously with a dignified scheme
|
|
|
Blank Verse
|
unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
|
|
|
Free Verse
|
unrhymed lines without regular rhyme
|
|
|
Free Verse
|
unrhymed lines without regular rhyme
|
|
|
Epic
|
a long, dignified narrative poem which gives the account of a hero important to his nation or race
|
|
|
Dramatic Monologue
|
a lyric poem in which the speaker addresses himself to persons around him; his speech deals with a dramatic moment in his life and manifests his character
|
|
|
Elegy
|
a poem of lament, meditating on the death of an individual
|
|
|
Ballad
|
simple, narrative verse which tells a story to be sung or recited: folk ballad is anonymously handed down, while the literary ballad has a single author
|
|
|
Idyll
|
lyric poetry describing the life of the shepherd in pastoral, bucolic, idealistic terms
|
|
|
Villanelle
|
French verse form, strictly calculated to appear simple and spontaneous; five tercet and a final quatrain, rhyming aba aba aba aba aba aba abaa
|
|
|
Light Verse
|
general category of poetry written to entertain, such as lyric poetry, epigrams, and limericks. It can also have a serious side as in parody or satire
|
|
|
Haiku
|
Japanese verse in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, often depicting a delicate image
|
|
|
Limerick
|
humorous nonsense-verse in five anapestic lines rhyming aabba. a-lines being trimeters and b-line dimeter
|
|
|
Meter
|
meter is poetry rhythm, or its pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Meter is measures in units of feet; the five basic kinds of metric feet are indicated below. Accents marks indicate stressed ( ) or unstressed
( )syllables |
|
|
Couplet
|
2 lines
|
|
|
Tercet
|
3 lines
|
|
|
Quatrain
|
4 lines
|
|
|
Cinquain
|
5 lines
|
|
|
Sestet
|
6 lines
|
|
|
Septet
|
7 lines
|
|
|
Octet (Octave)
|
8 lines
|
|
|
x-lined stanza
|
9 (or more) lines
|
|
|
Amphilbrach
|
a foot with unstressed, stressed, unstressed syllables
|
|
|
Caesura
|
a pause in the meter or in the rhythm of a line
|
|
|
Enjambement
|
a run-on line, one continuing into the text without a grammatical break
|
|
|
Rime
|
old spelling of rhyme, which is the repetition of like sounds at regular intervals, employed in Versification, the writing of a verse
|
|
|
End Rhyme
|
rhyme occurring at the end of a line; most common rhyme form
|
|
|
Internal Rhyme
|
rhyme contained within a line of verse
|
|
|
Rhyme Scheme
|
pattern of rhyme within a unit of verse; in analysis, each end rhyme-sound is represented by a letter
|
|
|
Masculine Rhyme
|
rhyme in which only the last, accented syllable of the rhyming words correspond exactly in sounds; most common kind of end rhyme
|
|
|
Feminine Rhyme
|
rhyme in which two consecutive syllables of the rhyme-words corresponding, the first syllable, carrying the accent; double rhyme
|
|
|
Half Rhyme
|
imperfect, approximate rhyme
|
|
|
Assonance
|
repetition of two or more vowel sounds within a line
|
|
|
Consonance
|
repetition of two or more constant sounds within a line
|
|
|
Alliteration
|
repetition of two or more initial sounds in words within a line
|
|
|
Onomatopoeia
|
the technique of using a word whose sounds suggests its meaning
|
|
|
Metaphor
|
figure of speech which makes a direct comparison of two unlike objects by identification or substitution
|
|
|
Simile
|
a direct comparison two unlike objects, using "like" or "as"
|
|
|
Conceit
|
an extended metaphor comparing two unlike objects with powerful effect
|
|
|
Personification
|
figure of speech in which objects and animals have human qualities
|
|
|
Apostrophe
|
addressing a person or personification object not presents
|
|
|
Metonymy
|
the substitution of words which relates to the objects or persons to be named, in place of the name itself
|
|
|
Synecdoche
|
figure of speech in which a part represents the whole object or idea
|
|
|
Hyperbole
|
gross exaggeration for effect; overstatement
|
|
|
Litotes
|
understatement for effect
|
|
|
Irony
|
the contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning
|
|
|
Symbolism
|
the use of one object to suggest another, hidden object or idea
|
|
|
Imagery
|
the use of words to represent things, action, or idea by sensory description
|
|
|
Paradox
|
a statement which appears self-contradictory, but underlines a basis of truth
|
|
|
Oxymoron
|
contradictory terms brought together to express a paradox for strong effect
|
|
|
Allusion
|
a reference to an outside fact, event, or other source
|
