English Poetry Test – Flashcards
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Metaphor
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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically unlike but have something in common. They do not contain the word like or as.
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Simile
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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using the word like or as.
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Extended metaphor
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A figure of speech that compares two unlike things at some length and in several ways. it doesn't contain the word like or as.
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Conceit
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A far-fetched simile or metaphor, this occurs when the speaker compares two highly dissimilar things.
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Oxymoron
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A special kind of concise paradox that brings together two contradictory terms.
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Paradox
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A seemingly contradictory or absurd statement that may nonetheless suggest an important truth.
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Hyperbole
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A figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect.
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Litotes
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a deliberate understatement with the intention of emphasis principally using double negatives. It's like saying something without actually saying it.
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Iambic pentameter
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A metrical pattern of five feet, or units, each of which is made up of two syllables, the first unstressed, and the second stressed. It is the most common meter used in English poetry; it is the meter used in blank verse and in the sonnet.
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Free verse
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Poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhythm naturally than do rhymed, metrical lines and thus achieve a rhythm more like that of everyday speech.
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Blank verse
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Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter. That is, each line of it has five pairs of syllables. In most pairs, an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable. The most versatile of poetic forms, it imitates the natural rhythms of English speech. Much of Shakespeare's drama is in this verse.
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Sonnet
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A lyric poem of 14 lines, commonly written in iambic pentameter. They are often classified as Petrarchan or Shakespearean. They typical rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg.
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Ode
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A complex lyric poem that develops a serious and dignified theme. Appeals to both the imagination and the intellect, and many commemorate events or praise people or elements of nature.
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Elegy
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An extended meditative poem in which the speaker reflects on death -- often in tribute to a person who has died recently, or on an equally serious subject. Most are written in formal, dignified language and are serious in tone.
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Lyric poetry
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A short poem in which a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings. This is the genre for most poems. In ancient Greece, this kind of poetry was meant to be sung.
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Narrative poetry
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Tells a story or recounts events. Like a short story or a novel, it has the following elements: plot, characters, setting, and theme.
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Dramatic monologue
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A lyric poem in which a speaker addresses a silent or absent listener in a moment of high intensity or deep emotion, as if engaged in private conversation.
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Alliteration
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used for poetic effect, a repetition of initial sounds of several words in a group.
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Assonance
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The repetition of vowel sounds in a literary work, especially in a poem.
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Personification
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A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human characteristics.
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Allusion
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A reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work.
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Dialogue
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In drama, a conversation between characters.
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Dialect
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the way people speak in one region or area
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Imagery
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A word or group of words in a literary work which appeal to one or more of the senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell.
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Ballad
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A story in poetic form, often about tragic love and usually sung. They were passed down from generation to generation by singers.
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Dear Danny Ledbetter
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And am I still your girl?
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When You Are Old
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Murmur a little sadly how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead
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Ode to Billy Joe
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he said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge, and she and Billy Joe was throwin' something off the Tallahatchee Bridge.
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final note to clark
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we are who we are,two faithful readers, not wonder woman and not superman.
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Hallelujah
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Well, your faith was strong but you needed proof,
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Tonight I Can Write
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To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her. To hear the immense night, still more immense without her
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An Irish Airman Forsees His Death
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A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
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The Invention of Fractions
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Only humankind could need the concepts of splintering and dividing, of things lost or broken, of settling for the part instead of the whole.
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FUNERAL BLUES
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The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun
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Love Song for Bobby Long
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He'd drag you down, if he thought he could, Well he would, drag you down. The road I ride will be the death of me, Won't you come along? The road I ride is gonna set me free, It's gonna take me home.
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The Highwayman
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He'd a French cocked-hat on his forehead, a bunch of lace at his chin, A coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of brown doe-skin; They fitted with never a wrinkle: his boots were up to the thigh!
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The Courage That My Mother Had
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I have no thing I treasure more: Yet, it is something I could spare
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The Sacred
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the key in having a key and putting it in, and going
