Poetry Terms
a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
What is meter?
two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side, for the purpose of showing contrast.
What is juxstaposition?
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines.
What is anaphora?
3 lines ( line 1-5 syllables, line 2-7 syllables, line 3- 5 syllables).
What is a Haiku?
a literary device that attributes human qualities and emotions to inanimate objects of nature. “The somber clouds darkened our mood” is considered this, as human attributes are given to an inanimate object of nature reflecting a mood.
What is a pathetic fallacy?
the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern
What is rhythm?
A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule.
What is a parody?
These type of words change, clarify, qualify, or limit a particular word in a sentence in order to add emphasis, explanation, or detail.
What is a modifier?
A narrative poem, often song-like, that tells a dramatic story with simple language and stanza structures (often quatrains).
What is Ballad?
a short, simple tale from which a moral lesson is drawn.
What is a parable?
two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
What is couplet?
writing that reads the same from left to right and from right to left such as the word “civic.”
What is palindrome?
The repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses. Basically the opposite of anaphora.
What is antistrophe?
a fourteen-line lyric poem usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter.
What is Sonnet?
is a story with two levels of meaning. First, there's the surface of the story: the characters and plot and all the obvious meaning. Then there's the symbolic level, or the deeper meaning that all the surface meaning represents.
What is an allegory?
a three-line stanza or poem, often characterized by a specific rhyme scheme (like ABA or AAA) or used as a single-stanza poem.
What is a tercet?
an inappropriateness of speech resulting from the use of one word for another, which resembles it; they can be humorous and nonsensical. Example: “for all intents and purposes” is turned into “for all intensive purposes.” Example: the Nurse in "Romeo and Juliet" says “confidence” instead of “conference.”
What is an malapropism?
This is a stylistic device used in literature to intentionally eliminate conjunctions between the phrases, and in the sentence, yet maintain grammatical accuracy.
What is asyndeton?
A humorous, rhyming five-line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme.
What is a Limerick?
is created when the comparison of a main subject and a comparison subject persists through parts of or an entire text, and when the comparison is expanded
What is an extended metaphor?
words that sound pleasant together.
What is a euphony?
the term applied to an image, a descriptive detail, a plot pattern, or a character type that occurs frequently in literature and is believed to evoke profound emotion because it touches the unconscious memory; a “universal symbol,” & a common, recurring representation of something.
Types:
(**) character, (**) situation, or (**) image
What is archetype?
A stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect.
What is polysyndeton?
Idealized accounts of shepherds and their loves living simple, virtuous lives in Arcadia, a mountainous region of Greece.
What is a Pastoral?
this genre of literature denotes the story of a single individual's growth and development within the context of a defined social order.
What is a bildungsroman?