Poetry vocab 1
Someone who writes poems
Who/what is a poet?
A 1st person speaker in a poem
What is a lyrical I?
The pattern of rhyme in a poem
What is a rhyme scheme?
Two lines of poetry, one following the other, that are the same length and rhyme
What is 'a couplet'?
A group of four lines in a poem
What is 'a quatrain'?
The arrangement of sounds in poetry into patterns of strong and weak beats
What is 'meter'?
Two or more verses in a poem without any punctuation between the lines
What are run-on lines or enjambement?
A strong pause within a line of verse
What is 'caesura'?
A common pattern of beats in English poetry, in which each line consists of five iambs couplet
What is 'iambic pentameter'?
The person a poem is addressed to
Who is the 'addressee'?
A group of verses in a forming part of a poem
What is 'a stanza'?
A line of poetry
What is 'a verse'?
The person speaking in a poem
Who is 'the speaker'?
Poetry that has a fixed rhythm but does not rhyme
What is 'blank verse'?
The use of words or pictures to describe ideas in a creative way in poems, for example similes and metaphors
What is 'imagery'?
Poetry that does not have a fixed structure and does not rhyme
What is 'free verse'?
A poem with 14 lines which rhyme with each other in a fixed pattern
What is 'a sonnet'?
Similarity in the vowel sounds of words that are close together in a poem
What is 'assonance'?
The use of several words together that begin with the same consonant sound or letter in order to make a special effect
What is 'alliteration'?
An opposition, or contrast, of ideas. Fx. "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
What is 'antithesis'?
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is 'personification'?
Conjoining contradictory terms in one expression (as in 'deafening silence')
What is 'an oxymoron'?
A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor
What is 'conceit'?
A humorous play on words, using similar-sounding or identical words to suggest different meanings. Fx.
"The best way to communicate with a fish is to drop them a line."
What is 'a pun'?
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. Fx. "I'm dying of thirst"
What is 'hyperbole'?