Literary Terms 1
The last syllabes or words in two or more lines rhyme with each other.
What is end rhyme?
A literary device where vivid language is used to appeal to the reader’s senses. It creates a pictures in the reader’s mind.
What is imagery?
Rhyme that occurs in the middle of lines of poetry instead of at the end. A single line can contain rhyming words or it can happen across lines.
What is internal rhyme?
EX: whoosh, bang, creak, tinkle
What is onomatopoeia?
The formation of a word by imitating the natural sound associated with the object or action involved.
What is onomatopoeia?
EX: “My father brought to conversations a cavernous capacity for caring that dismayed strangers.”
What is alliteration?
A figure of speech in which one thing is likened to something else, but “like” or “as” is not used.
What is metaphor?
A type of figurative language in which an animal, an object, a natural force, or an idea is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
EX: “A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”--Benjamin Franklin
What is metaphor?
EX: “I wandered lonely as a cloud.”
What is simile?
EX: Coming home from the lake empty-handed, I figured the fish colluded to avoid me.
What is personification?
The repetition of similar vowel sounds that occurs in two or more words near each other in a line of poetry or prose.
What is assonance?
Poetry that expresses a speaker’s personal thoughts or feelings. The elegy, ode, and sonnet are forms of this type of poetry. THey may express a range of emotions and reflections.
What is lyric poetry?
A speech in which a character, who is usually alone on stage, expresses his or her thoughts out loud. It allows the character to relay his or her most intimate thoughts and feelings to the audience.
What is soliloquy?
Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. EX: understand
What is anapest?
A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. The stressed syllables are marked with a (‘) and the unstressed syllables are marked with (-). It is measured in units called feet.
What is meter?
One unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. EX: But soft!
What is iamb or iambic?
One stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable. EX: gallant
What is trochee?
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Each line of poetry contains 10 syllables and every other syllable is stressed.
What is blank verse?
One stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables. EX: hickory
What is dactyl?
A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two items that are not usually related. “Like” or “as” is used to make the comparison.
What is simile?
A literary device which creates interest by the recurrence of initial consonant sounds at the beginning of several words near each other.
What is alliteration?