Details Title: Poetry Description: Poetic Terms and Tools used to create and understand poetry Total Flash Cards: 8 Created: 09/08/2009 06:41:00		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Writing Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term alliteration Definition The repetition of sounds in nearby words, most often involving the initial consonants of words (and sometimes the internal consonants in stressed syllables). Term simile Definition Comparing objects using like or as Term allusion Definition An indirect reference to a text, myth, event, or person outside the poem itself (compare echo). Although it is woven into the context of the poem, it carries its own history of meaning: for example, see the reference to Hamlet in T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917). Term ambiguity Definition The ability to mean more than one thing. Term blank verse Definition Unrhymed iambic pentameter; for example, see Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Term ballad Definition A narrative poem, impersonally related, that is (or originally was) meant to be sung. Term connotation Definition What is suggested by a word, apart from what it explicitly and directly describes (compare denotation). Term conventions Definition Standard ways of saying things in verse, employed to achieve certain expected effects. Conventions may pertain to style (e.g., the rhyme scheme of the sonnet) or content (e.g., the figure of the shepherd in the pastoral).