FINISH THIS!!! Poem english test – Flashcards

A peom that expresses a speakers emotion or thoughts. It does not tell a story. Most lyric poems are short. Usually desplaying emotion.

poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme. Poets write a free verse to capture natural rhymes of ordonary speech.

A three lined poem with 17 syllables. Usually contrasts 2 images from nature or daily life. They may also include a seasonal word and a moment of discovery.

5,7,5

A 14 line lyric poem and have a regular rhyme scheme.

Presents a list of many diffrent images. A catalog of events can cause depth and intensity.

A song that tells a story. Ballads use a steady rhythm, strong rhymes, and repetition. Listen for refrain that repeats with slight changes.

A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. It attempts to evoke a dual interest, one in the events, characters, and setting presented, and the other in the ideas they are intended to convey or the significance they bear.

A word or phrase that appeals to one or more of your 5 senses.

Elements that help you imagine how something looks, sounds, smells, feels, or tastes.

An analogy in which the comparison is expressed by the use of some word or phrases, such as like, as, than, similar to, resembles, or seems

An analogy identifying one object with another and ascribing to the first object one or more qualities of the second.

A type of metaphor in which the attributes of a human being are given to a nonhuman object or concept

A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to stand for the whole thing.

a play on the meaning of words

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.

a compairasion od two things, alike in certian aspecs; particularly a method used in exposition and discription by wich something unfamiliar is explained or described by comparing it to something more familiar

Deliberate exaggeration for emphasis.

Designation of one thing with something closely associated with it.

A contradiction; two contradictory terms or ideas used together.

A statement that appears to be contradictory but, in fact, has some truth.

Is the repitition of a stressed vowel or sound that follows it in words that are close together in a poem.

rhymes occurring at the end

Rhymes in poetry ocurring at the ends of lines.

Occur when at least one of the rhymed words falls within a line. These rhymes can be much less obvious than end rhymes.

Repeat some sounds but are not exact echoes. Also called half rhymes. EX. moom and morn

A musicle quality based on repitition. When you talk about the beat you hear when you read a poem.

A regular patteren of stressed and unstressed syllables in the ines of a poem.

Scan a poem to identify its meter

one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables

a foot that has an unstressed syllable followed by a stress syllable

has stress syllable followed by unstressed syllable

two unstressed syllable then and stressed syllable

one stressed syllable then two unstressed syllables

two stressed syllables

A word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the source of the sound that it describes

The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of successive words

Involves the repetition of vowel sounds

syllables of the words