Figures of Speech That I Don't Know

allusion

a seemingly brief reference to something in history, politics, literature, art, music which the writer expects the reader to understand

assonance

the repetition of vowel sounds

ballad

a story told in verse and meant to be sung. tells of love, death, supernatural, or combo. incremental repetition- repeats one or more line are small but significant variations that advance. ballad stanza- contains 4 lines

concrete poetry

a poem that visually resembles its subject

consonance

the repetition of similar consonant sounds typically within or end of words

enjambment

a run on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next

( example: while here I stand, not only with the sense

Of present pleasurebut with pleasing thought)

free verse

composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern

haiku

a Japanese form of poetry which attempts to capture a single experience. always reflects in some way a season. consists of 3 lines with 5,7,5 syllables respectively.

internal rhyme

the matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words that occur within the same line of poetry. (usually occur in middle and end of a line)

inversion

words arranged in an unusual order in a poetic line

light verse

intended to be humourous or entertaining rather than serious profound

metonymy

the use of one word to stand for a related term (mono- whole)

meter

a regular pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables in a line of poetry

narrative poem

poem that tells a story

refrain

a line or group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem or song, often at the end of stanzas, sometimes with some changes in the words

shakesprean sonnet

a lyric poem consisting of fourteen lines. consists of three quatrains (four lines each) and a concluding couplet

synecdoche

the use of part to represent the whole (sync- parts are in sync)