Poetry Devices 0.0 / 5 ? English LiteratureJohn ClareASAQA Created by: Abigail MitchellCreated on: 16-11-13 16:45 Parody A literary work that criticises human misconduct, often associated with governance 1 of 47 Quatrain A four-line stanza 2 of 47 Satire A humerous, mocking imitation of a literary work 3 of 47 Meter The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems 4 of 47 Metonymy A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea (crown vs. king/queen) 5 of 47 Spondee A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables (Knick-knack) 6 of 47 Anthropomorphism The attrubution of human qualities to a God or animal 7 of 47 Volta A shift in a poem to mark a change in tone or idea 8 of 47 Personification The endowment of inanimate objects with animate or living qualities 9 of 47 Protagonist The main character of a literary work 10 of 47 Narrator The voice and implied speaker of a literary text 11 of 47 Pathetic Fallacy The attribution of human feelings or emtions to inanimate objects 12 of 47 Syntax The grammatical order of words in a line 13 of 47 Sonnet A fourteen line poem in iambic pentameter 14 of 47 Sestet A six-line unit of verse 15 of 47 Octave An eight-line unit 16 of 47 Irony A contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant 17 of 47 Iamb An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one (to-Day) 18 of 47 Lyric Poem A peom characterised by brevity, compression and the expression of feeling 19 of 47 Foot A metrical unit 20 of 47 Ode A long stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter and form 21 of 47 Free Verse Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme 22 of 47 Epigram A witty, rhymed couplet that often concludes a scene or summarises the meaning 23 of 47 Hyperbole Exaggeration for effect 24 of 47 Onomatopoeia Words to imitate sounds 25 of 47 Imagery A pattern of related aspects of language or images 26 of 47 Foil A character who contrasts and parallels the main character 27 of 47 Figurative Language Language that conveys something other than the literal meaning of the words 28 of 47 Metaphor A comparison between essentially dissimilar things 29 of 47 Foreshadowing A hint of future action 30 of 47 Epic A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero 31 of 47 Couplet A pair of lines within poetry 32 of 47 Dactly A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones (Flut-ter-ing) 33 of 47 Enjambment A run-one line in which an idea carries over from one line to the next 34 of 47 Closed Form A type of form of poetry characterised by regularity in rhyme, line length and metrical pattern 35 of 47 Elision The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter (o'er) 36 of 47 Connotation Associations with words beyond their dictionary meaning 37 of 47 Ballad Narrative poem written in four-line stanzas 38 of 47 Denouement The resolution of a literary work 39 of 47 Allegory A symbolic narrative with a secondary meaning 40 of 47 Assonance Repetition of a simliar vowel sound 41 of 47 Antagonist A character or force against which another character struggles 42 of 47 Caesura A strong pause within a line of verse 43 of 47 Alliteration Repetition of a consonant sound 44 of 47 Anapest Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one (com-pre-Hend) 45 of 47 Elegy A poem that laments the dead 46 of 47 Blank Verse A line of poetry or prose written in unrhymed iambic pentameter 47 of 47
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