This concept refers to a word's accepted dictionary definition.
What is denotation?
100
This concept refers to the repetition of consonant sounds, such as "slithering snakes slide by slowly."
What is alliteration?
100
This term refers to a comparison using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
Lines of poetry that end with a strong grammatical pause like a comma or period are described by this name.
What is end-stopped lines?
100
When we group lines of poetry into sections within a poem, we give them this name.
What is a stanza?
200
This concept refers to the shared associations and feelings carried by a word.
What is connotation?
200
abab cdcd efef abcabc aa bb cc dd ee These are all examples of what type of pattern?
What is a rhyme scheme?
200
When we assign human qualities to a non-human object like an animal or the landscape, we use this poetic device.
What is personification?
200
Lines of poetry that have no grammatical pause at the end of the line are known as run-on lines or by this term.
What is enjambment?
200
The following lines demonstrate this special kind of stanza:
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
What is a quatrain?
300
This term can refer to what we would see with our eyes in a poem. Or it can refer to things we don't see.
What is an image?
300
This excerpt from "The Shape of Death" features this specific type of rhyme. like a monstrous brain that bursts and burns--then turns sickly black spilling
What is internal rhyme?
300
When Dennis Brutus describes police cars as "cockroaching" through the streets, he uses this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
300
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
The pauses in the middle of the above line created by the commas are known by this term.
What is a caesura?
300
Two lines of poetry that share an end-rhyme are known by this name.
What is a couplet?
400
Lines from this poem include: I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house.
What is "Those Winter Sundays?"
400
This concept refers to the repetition of a specific vowel sound within lines of poetry.
What is assonance?
400
When Angeline Grimke describes trees as "lean, naked, and cold," she uses this type of figurative language."
What is personification?
400
A line of poetry that consists of ten syllables and an alternating pattern of unstressed and stressed accents fits into this type of meter.
What is iambic pentameter?
400
Shakespeare's favorite form for poetry, this type consists of three quatrains and a couplet that rhyme abab cdcd efef gg.
What is an English sonnet?
500
Lines from this poem include When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
What is "The Peace of Wild Things?"
500
This poet is known for his poem about a father, a child, and some less than fancy footwork.
Who is Theodore Roethke?
500
Lines from this poem include:
I'm a riddle in nine syllables,
An elephant, a ponderous house,
What is "Metaphors?"
500
Lines from this poem include: who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
What is "Buffalo Bill 's?"
500
This poet is known for his poem about a imaginary salsa band.