Poetry 1
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
A comparison that does NOT use like or as
A metaphor
When you give a human characteristic to something that is NOT human
What is personification?
Recurring image, word, or phrase to connect a recurring idea to a previous idea
What is a motif?
The high point of the plot
What is the climax?
A group of lines in a poem; the paragraph of poetry
What is a stanza?
Line or lines repeated at regular intervals;chorus
What is refrain?
The scarf hugged her neck in the bitter cold wind.
What is an example of personification?
"Revelation"
What is the meaning of apocalypse?
The complication in the plot
What is the rising action?
Word order reversed for metrical or other reasons
What is an inversion?
Repetition at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines
What is anaphora?
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of the words
What is alliteration?
Characters, setting, and events stand in place of something else
What is allegory?
The pieces fall into place, but not quite right
What is falling action?
Santa Claus was as quiet as a mouse as he climbed down the chimney on Christmas Eve.
What is an example of a simile?
Nick's noble naming nomination is next new years.
What is an example of alliteration?
The first eight lines of a sonnet
What is an octave?
A 3rd person narrator who knows everything
What is an omniscient narrator?
Setting the table=setting the scene
What is the exposition?
Shakespeare's favorite meter: when regular, five iambic feet
What is iambic pentameter?
A poem with no specific structure or rhyme
What is free verse?
Repetition of vowel sounds
What is assonance?
The opposite of what we expect
What is irony?
What is the denouement (untying the knot) where conflicts are resolved?
What is the resolution?