Poetry Terms Flash.txt

One that tells a story

Poetry that involves the techniques of drama like a play with characters

Highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker

A word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses

Literary work is the writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject

When you choose your words that differ and come to mind by choice

Writing or speech meant to be interpreted literally

The way a piece of literary work is constructed

Pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language

A group of lines in a poem considered as a unit

Poem is its rhythmical pattern

Poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter

Regular pattern or rhyming words in a poem

The use of words that imitate sounds

Repetition of initial beginning consonant sounds

Repetition in 2 or more words of end constants in stressed syllables

Repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consents in 2 or more syllables.

Rhyming words appear in the same line

rhyming words come at the ends of lines

Any element of language more then once

Feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage

Central message or insight on to life revealed through literary work

A reference to a well known person, place, event, book, or work of art

Songlike poem that tells a story

Poerty written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines

Pair of rhyming lines

Figure of speech in which like or as is used by comparison

Figure of speech in which one thing is spoken as though it was something else.

Subject is spoken or written of as though it were something else and a whole piece of writing.

Threeline japanese verse form

Humerous, rhyming, 5 line poem with specific meter and rhyme scheme

Type of figurative language in who a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.

Stanza or poem made up of 4 lines

Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses

14 line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter

Listing in a poem

Deliberate exaggeration

Put something into your own words

Anything that stands for or representing something else

Opposites each other