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Sound Devices
Figurative Language
Poetic Form
Poetic Patterns
Structure and Elements
100
use of words that imitate sounds
What is onomatopoeia?
100
a person, place, or object that represents something beyond itself
What is a symbol?
100
a poem that tells a story
What is a narrative poem?
100
a line of poetry with a pause at the end
What is end-stopped?
100
a group of lines that form a unit of poetry
What is a stanza?
200
literary technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis
What is repetition?
200
two contradictory terms
What is an oxymoron?
200
a lyric poem of 14 lines that is most often written in iambic pentameter
What is a sonnet?
200
pattern of end rhyme in a poem
What is rhyme scheme?
200
a four-line stanza
What is a quatrain?
300
repetition of the same sound at the end of a word, usually this appears on the last word of a line of poetry
What is a rhyme?
300
an indirect reference to a historical or literary person, place, thing, or event
What is an allusion?
300
a poem inspired by a work of art
What is an ekphrastic poem?
300
most common meter in English poetry consisting of a five-foot line of unstressed followed by stressed syllables
What is iambic pentameter?
300
the voice that "talks" to the reader in a poem
What is the speaker?
400
repetition of internal or end consonant sounds
What is consonance?
400
a deliberate overstatement or exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
400
a lyric poem in which a speaker addresses a silent or absent listener
What is a dramatic monologue?
400
poetry that does not contain regular pattern of rhyme and meter
What is free verse?
400
a group of three lines of poetry that often rhyme
What is a tercet?
500
repetition vowels sounds in poetry
What is assonance?
500
a figure of speech in which the part is used for the whole or the whole for the part
What is a synecdoche?
500
a 19 line lyric poem divided into 5 tercets and a final quatrain (four line stanza)
What is a villanelle?
500
unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
500
a repeated part of a poem that most often occurs at the end of a stanza or between stanzas
What is a refrain?