sound and Rhythm
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is Alliteration?
“Life is a broken-winged bird”
What is a metaphor?
A 14-line poem with a volta
What is a sonnet?
Speaker’s attitude toward subject
What is tone?
the red wheelbarrow” stands for more than itself
what is symbolism?
Repetition of vowel sounds
What is assonance?
Comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
Lines that run over without pause
What is enjambment \?
A tone that makes fun of the subject,
What is mocking tone?
A recurring object that gains meaning
What is motif?
“da‑DUM” pattern in a line
What is Iambic Pentameter
to give a non living thing, human qualities
What is personification?
A grouped set of lines in a poem, like a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
Intimate, conversational narrator
What is colloquial/conversation voice?
Sensory language appealing to smell
What is olfactory imagery?
repetition at the end of lines
What is consonance?
otherwise known as exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
The pattern of end rhymes in a poem, labelled with letters like ABAB.
A narrator who tells the story using he, she, or they and stays outside the action.
What is third person narrator?
Colour used to suggest emotion
What is colour symbolism?
Sound device that imitates noise
What is onomatopoeia?
A metaphor that is used across a poem
What is an extended metaphor?
Poetry without regular rhyme or meter.
what is free verse?
Shifts in tone across stanzas
What is shifts in tone?
Natural image representing a social idea
What is nature symbolism?