Quizlet Poetry Terms

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  1. Alliteration: Repitition of initial consonant sounds
  2. Allusion: A reference in literature to a famous person, place, or thing from the bible, mythology, or other literary work
  3. Assonance: The repition of vowel sounds without repition of consonants
  4. Blank verse: Unrhymed iambic pentameter
  5. Couplet: Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme and usually express a completed thought
  6. Diction: An author's choice of words based on their correctnes, clarity, or effectiveness
  7. Enjambment: The running over of a sentence or thought from one line to the next
  8. Figurative language: Language that creates a special effect or feeling by comparing, exaggerating, or meaning something other than what it first appears to mean
  9. Folk Ballad: A short, musical, narrative poem with an oral tradition, often about tragic love or heroism
  10. Free verse: Poetry which has no regular rhythm or rhyme scheme
  11. Haiku: A seventeen syllable, three-line poem, usually about nature, with a suggestion of deeper meaning
  12. Hyperbole: An exaggeration or overstatement used for effect
  13. Iambic pentameter: A metric line consisting of five feet of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
  14. Imagery: The words or phrases an author selects, using sensory details, to create a picture in the reader's mind
  15. Lyric: Poetry which expresses the speakers emotions and thoughts
  16. Metaphor: A comparison of two or more things not using like or as
  17. Meter: The patterned repitition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
  18. Onomatopoeia: A word whose sound imitaes or suggests its meaning
  19. Parallelism: The repitition of phrases or sentences that are alike in structure or meaning
  20. Parody: A form of literature intended to achieve a comic effect by mocking a particular literary work or its style
  21. Personification: Assigning human qualities to an object, idea, or animal
  22. Refrain: The repition of a line in a poem at regular intervals, especially at the end of a stanza
  23. Rhyme scheme: The pattern formed ny assigning letters to each new end rhyme in a poem
  24. Scanning: Marking the stressed and unstressed syllables and the number of feet in a line of poetry to determine if the rhythm of the poem has a regular, measurable pattern
  25. Similie: A comparison of two unlike things using the words lire or as
  26. Sonnet: A 14-line lyric poem of iambic pentameter and a set rhyme scheme
  27. Stanza: A group of consecutive lines in a poem that create a single unit
  28. Tone: A writers or speakers attitude toward their subject