Vocabulaire Poétique en Anglais

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Les 50 mots clés de la poésie anglaise

Mot anglaisTraductionExemple d'utilisation
SonnetSonnet"Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets."
VerseVers / strophe"The first verse is the most famous."
RhymeRime"Day and may are a perfect rhyme."
Meter / MetreMètre"The iambic pentameter is the most used meter."
StanzaStrophe"Each stanza has four lines."
IambIambe"An iamb is a weak syllable followed by a strong one."
OdeOde"Keats wrote Ode to a Nightingale in 1819."
ElegyÉlégie"An elegy is a poem of mourning."
MetaphorMétaphore"Life is a broken-winged bird."
SimileComparaison"I wandered lonely as a cloud."
AlliterationAllitération"The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew."
PersonificationPersonnification"Death, be not proud."
ImageryImage poétique"Frost uses vivid imagery of autumn leaves."
RefrainRefrain"The refrain repeats at the end of each stanza."
CoupletDistique (2 vers rimant)"The final couplet concludes the argument."
VillanelleVillanelle"Do Not Go Gentle is a villanelle with 19 lines."
Free verseVers libre"Walt Whitman pioneered free verse in America."
QuatrainQuatrain"A quatrain has four rhyming lines."
BalladBallade"Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner as a ballad."
Lyric poemPoème lyrique"A lyric poem expresses personal emotions."
EpicÉpopée"Milton's Paradise Lost is an epic poem."
HaikuHaïku"The haiku form influenced modern English poetry."
AssonanceAssonance"Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese."
ConsonanceConsonance"Pitter patter — repetition of consonant sounds."
EnjambmentEnjambement"The sentence continues from one line to the next."
CaesuraCésure"A caesura is a mid-line pause in a verse."
HyperboleHyperbole"I've told you a million times!"
IronyIronie"The Road Not Taken is often read ironically."
ToneTon"The tone of the poem is melancholic."
MoodAtmosphère"The mood of the poem is dark and oppressive."

Exercice : reliez le mot à sa définition

1. Alliteration  |  2. Enjambment  |  3. Villanelle  |  4. Iamb  |  5. Elegy

A. Pied métrique faible-fort (da-DUM)  |  B. Poème de deuil  |  C. Répétition de consonnes initiales  |  D. 19 vers avec deux refrains  |  E. Phrase dépassant un vers

Réponses : 1-C, 2-E, 3-D, 4-A, 5-B