Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Graham Poetry Lit Terms (Per. 8)
Poetry Lit Terms
29
English
7th Grade
02/10/2012

Additional English Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Alliteration
Definition
Repetition of the same consonant sounds
Term
Assaonance
Definition
Repetition of internal vowel sounds
Term
Author's Purpose
Definition
Entertain? Explain? Inform? Persuade?
Term
Character
Definition
A person,animal or imaginary creature in a literary work
Term
Consonance
Definition
Identical consonant sounds (i.e. home,same; worth, breath
Term
Couplet
Definition
2 consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter ("If turkey gobble, do Pilgrims squabble?")
Term
Haiku
Definition
Fixed poetic from consisting of 17 syllables organized into 3 unrhymed lines of 5,7,5 syllables
Term
Hyperbole
Definition
Exaggerated statement
Term
Imagery
Definition
Words and phrases the appeal to the senses
Term
limerick
Definition
Humorous-styled poetry consisting of 5 lines with the rhyme scheme aabba
Term
lyric
Definition
A brief poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker.
Term
Metaphor
Definition
Compares 2 unlike things( without using "like" or "as")
Term
narrative
Definition
Poem that tells a story
Term
onomatopoeia
Definition
Word resembles the sound (buzz, bang, sizzle)
Term
personification
Definition
Human characteristics attributed to non-human things
Term
point of view
Definition
The teller of the story affects how the story is told
Term
quatrain
Definition
A 4-lined stanza
Term
rhyme
Definition
Repetition of identical concluding syllables
Term
simile
Definition
Comparing using the work "like" or "as"
Term
soliloquy
Definition
A characters thoght
Term
sonnet
Definition
Lyric poetry consisting of 14 lines
Term
stanza
Definition
grouping od lines set of by a space
Term
symbol
Definition
Person, object, image, word or even that evokes meaning
Term
theme
Definition
The central meaning of the literary work
Term
tone
Definition
The author's attitude
Term
verse
Definition
Poetic lines composed in a rhythmical pattern
Term
repetition
Definition
simple reading of a word within a sentence or a poetical line in order to emphasize.
Term
refrain
Definition
is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the "chorus" of a song
Term
meter
Definition
The basic rhythm structure of a verse that is based on the pattern of syllables in a line where the position of any one syllable is stressed.
Supporting users have an ad free experience!