04/12 4. Poetry and the Lyric Imagination Free Online FlashCards

What is a lyric poem?

A lyric poem is generally brief and concentrated, presenting emotion, perception, meditation, or address rather than a sustained story.

What distinguishes narrative poetry?

Narrative poetry tells a story through verse, often using characters, setting, conflict, sequence, and a narrator.

What is a dramatic monologue?

A dramatic monologue presents an imagined speaker addressing a silent listener whose presence is inferred from the speaker’s words.

What defines free verse?

Free verse does not follow a predetermined metrical scheme or rhyme pattern, but it can develop strong rhythms through syntax, repetition, pauses, or recurring sounds.

What are meter and a poetic foot?

Meter is a patterned arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables. A foot is a recurring rhythmic unit within that pattern.

What is iambic pentameter?

Iambic pentameter contains five iambic feet in a line. An iamb follows an unstressed–stressed pattern.

What effect can enjambment create?

Enjambment continues a sentence beyond the line break, often creating suspense or emphasizing a word at the line’s edge.

What is a caesura?

A caesura is a pause within a line that can create hesitation, emphasis, or a change in movement.

What is alliteration?

Alliteration repeats consonant sounds, especially at the beginnings of nearby words.

What is imagery in poetry?

Imagery is language that evokes sensory experience, including sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, movement, or bodily feeling.

What is a metaphor?

A metaphor is an implied comparison between unlike things, without using “like” or “as” as the comparison marker.

Why distinguish the speaker from the author?

The speaker is the voice presenting the poem’s language, and that voice is not automatically the author.