Creative Writing 11 Exam Review Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms, context types, figures of speech, and poetic forms for the Creative Writing 11 exam.

Extended Metaphor

A sustained comparison that develops over several lines or an entire work, creating multiple parallels between two things.

Conceit

Another term for an extended metaphor.

Literary Context

The surrounding literary works, traditions, genres, and conventions that influence a text.

Historical Context

The time period and its current events during which a text was written.

Cultural Context

The beliefs, religion, marriage customs, food, and clothing of a society that influence a text.

Authorial/Biographical Context

The author's life experiences, background, and personal history.

Sociopolitical Context

The overlapping of social and political arenas and their influence on a text, involving power relations, governance, and social hierarchies.

Intertextuality

How one text references, responds to, or is influenced by another text.

Adjunction

A figure of speech that places a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning or end of a sentence for emphasis.

Adnomination

A figure of speech using words that are similar in sound or structure.

Allusion

A reference to a well-known person, event, or work.

Alliteration

The repetition of initial consonant sounds.

Anaphora

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

Epiphora

The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.

Chiasmus

The reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases.

Antithesis

The contrast of ideas using parallel structure.

Diction

The writer's choice of words and selection of vocabulary to create a specific effect.

Suite of Poems

A series of individual poems connected by a common theme.

Subject

What a poem is about (the topic).

Theme

The insight or message about the subject in a literary work.

Prose Poem

A work written in prose that possesses poetic qualities like imagery and rhythm, written in paragraphs without line breaks.

Visual Poetry

Also called concrete poetry; poetry where the physical arrangement of words on the page is as important as the text itself.

Calligram

A poem in which the text is arranged to form a visual image related to the subject.