TSL425: Poetry Terms and Definitions
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61 question-and-answer flashcards covering essential poetry forms, sound devices, and figurative language concepts from the TSL425 lecture notes.
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What is poetry?
Words arranged in a rhythmic pattern with regular accents, carefully selected for sound, accent, and meaning to imaginatively express ideas and emotions.
In poetry, what does diction refer to?
The poet’s choice of words.
What does tone refer to in a poem?
The poet’s attitude toward the theme or subject.
What is imagery in poetry?
The use of figures of speech that create a sensory experience.
Define rhythm in poetry.
The musical quality of language produced by repetition; created through elements such as alliteration, assonance, consonance, meter, repetition, and rhyme.
What is metre (meter) in poetry?
The number of stresses, beats, or feet in a line of poetry.
What is a narrative poem?
A poem that tells a story.
What is a lyric poem?
A poem with a musical or song-like quality.
Define an epic poem.
A long narrative poem telling the story of an historical figure or event.
What is an allegory in poetry?
A narrative poem that functions as an extended metaphor.
What is an ode?
A poem that addresses or pays tribute in praise of something.
What is an elegy?
A reflective poem or lament dealing with topics such as death or mourning.
What is an acrostic poem?
A poem in which the initial letters of each line spell out a name or word.
Define a ballad.
A poetic narrative verse, often meant to be sung.
What is blank verse?
Unrhymed poetry written in a specific meter.
What is a canzone?
An Italian lyrical poem.
Define a pastoral poem.
A short poem describing rural life.
What is a Petrarchan sonnet?
An Italian sonnet that follows a specific rhyme scheme.
What is a senryu?
A three-line Japanese poem, often focused on human nature.
Describe a Shakespearean sonnet.
A sonnet composed of three quatrains followed by a couplet.
How many lines does a sonnet contain?
Fourteen lines, typically ending with a rhyming couplet.
What is a tanka?
A 31-syllable poem.
Define terza rima.
Italian verse built of three-line stanzas (tercets) with a specific interlocking rhyme scheme.
What is an epitaph?
A short poem or saying on a gravestone in memory of a deceased person.
What is a haiku?
A simple three-line poem, typically about nature or scenery.
What is a quatrain?
A four-line poem or stanza that may follow various rhyme schemes.
Define a cinquain.
A five-line poem or stanza.
What is a limerick?
A whimsical five-line poem with an AABBA rhyme scheme.
What is a simile?
A comparison of two essentially unlike things using like or as.
Define a metaphor.
A comparison between two unlike things that share an important commonality, stated without like or as.
What is personification?
Giving human-like characteristics to a nonhuman object, animal, or idea.
What is hyperbole?
A deliberate over-exaggeration used to make a point.
Define symbolism.
The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities beyond their literal sense.
What is apostrophe in poetry?
Addressing a dead or absent person, or an abstract idea, as if it were present.
What is alliteration?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.
Define enjambment.
The continuation of a sentence without punctuation at the end of a line of poetry.
What is onomatopoeia?
A word or group of words that imitates the sound it describes.
What is literal language?
Language that uses words in their exact, literal meanings; straightforward and to the point.
Define figurative language.
Language that uses figures of speech, such as metaphors and similes, to add persuasion or deeper meaning.
What is denotation?
The dictionary or literal meaning of a word.
What is connotation?
The ideas or feelings a word suggests beyond its explicit meaning.
In literature, what is an image?
A mental picture or something seen through the mind’s eye.
What is meant by an image in a poem?
Language that evokes a vivid sensory and concrete presence.
Define imagery.
Descriptive language and literary devices that appeal to the senses—sound, smell, taste, touch, and internal sensation.
In poetry, what is a scheme?
A planned system or arrangement, such as a pattern of rhyme.
What is rhyme?
The repetition of an accented vowel sound preceded by different consonant sounds.
What is a rhyme scheme?
The ordered pattern or arrangement of rhymes in a poem.
Define end rhyme.
The repetition of similar vowel sounds at the ends of lines.
What is internal rhyme?
Rhyming of two words within the same line of poetry.
What is half rhyme (slant, near, or oblique rhyme)?
The use of words that suggest rhyme but do not meet the criteria of true rhyme.
What is eye rhyme?
Words that look alike in spelling but are pronounced differently and thus only appear to rhyme.
Define a couplet.
Two adjacent lines of poetry that rhyme.
In stanza forms, what is another definition of quatrain?
A group of four lines unified by a rhyme scheme.
What is repetition in poetry?
The deliberate re-use of words, phrases, or sounds.
Define meter.
The rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables (feet) in a line of poetry.
What is a foot in poetry?
A measuring unit consisting of a specific combination of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is scansion?
The process of marking stresses in a poem and determining its meter.
Restate the definition of alliteration.
The repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds usually at the beginnings of nearby words.
What is an allusion?
A reference to a person, place, event, or thing from history, literature, mythology, religion, politics, sports, etc., made to create a comparison or point.
Define assonance.
The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in nearby words.
What is consonance?
The repetition of final consonant sounds after different vowel sounds in words that are close together.