1st Column
Giving human characteristics to animals or non-living things.
Personification
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using the connecting words "like" or "as." EXAMPLE: Love is like a battlefield.
Simile
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using the connecting words "like" or "as." EXAMPLE: Love is a battlefield.
Metaphor
A single line of poetry.
Verse
A figure of speech where the writer purposely and obviously exaggerates to an extreme. It is used for emphasis or as a way of making a description more creative and humorous.
Hyperbole
What is the name of one poem you learned in this unit?
Answers will vary by grade/class
A figure of speech that puts together opposite elements. The combination of these contradicting elements serves to confuse or give the reader a laugh. EXAMPLE: Her room is an organized mess, or controlled chaos, if you will.
Oxymoron
A phrase that expresses a figurative meaning different from the actual meaning of the words used. EXAMPLE: "Kick the bucket" is means "death."
Idiom
A word that sounds like what it means. EXAMPLE: Buzz! Click! Bang! Whoosh!
Onomatopoeia
A stanza or poem that contains eight lines
Octave
A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.
Stanza
An object or action that means something more than the literal meaning.
Symbol
The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the readers.
Theme
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. EXAMPLE: "From Forth the Fatal loins of these two Foes; A pair of star-crossed lover take their life."
Alliteration
A stanza or poem that contains four lines
quatrain
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.
Free Verse
Consecutive lines, stanza, or entire poem has the same end rhyme.
monorhyme
Rhyming scheme where 1st and 4th lines rhyme and 2nd and 3rd lines rhyme, ABBA
Enclosed rhyme
The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the _____ of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth.
Rhythm
The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet's placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line.
Meter
A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.
Allusion
The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text. EXAMPLE: "Ivan will trY to lIght the fIre."
Assonance
The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels in a chunk of text. Example: "A worM naMed Maurice took he garden by storM."
Consonance
Rhymes as ABAB, CDCD, EFEF
Alternate rhyme
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Oxymoron