English Poetry
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24 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 epic | a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero |
| ballad | a narrative poem written in four line stanzas characterized by swift action |
| assonance | repetition of a vowel sound within words |
| alliteration | repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of a word |
| figurative language | a form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words |
| narrative poem | a poem that tells a story |
| consonance | a repetition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of words |
| hero | the principal character |
| ryhme | the matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words |
| end ryhme | the near duplication of sound that takes place at the ends of rhymes |
| speaker | the voice that talks the reader in the poem(not necessarely the poet) |
| couplet | two lines of verse that rhyme with eachother |
| internal rhyme | involves rhyming sounds within the same rhyme |
| catalogue | a long list in an epic poem |
| rhyme scheme | pattern of rhymed words, stanzas are linked by the rhyme scheme |
| imagery | poets way of getting you to see what he or she is describing exactly the way he or she sees it |
| lyric poem | characterized by revity, compression, and expression of feeling |
| simile | comparison between two things that have something in commom; uses as or like |
| metaphor | comparison between two unlike things that have something in common; does not use like or as |
| personification | the endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities |
| iambic pentameter | 5 feet of unstressed/stressed syllables |
| sonnet | 14 lines iambic pentameter |
| dramatic poetry | uses the action and dialogue of the characters involved; tells a story |
| stanza | division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form either with similar or identical pattern or rhyme and meter or with variations from one stanza to another |
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