A group of lines, which form a division of a poem.
What is a stanza
100
A short poem with three lines that uses imagistic language to convey the essence of an experience of nature or the season intuitively linked to the human condition.
What is a haiku.
100
A directly expressed comparison; a figure of speech comparing two objects, usually with “like,” “as,” or “than.”
What is a simile.
100
Refers to the sameness of sound found between words.
What is rhyme.
100
The “voice” of a poem; the persona that a poet creates to narrate the poem.
What is speaker.
200
The sequence of words printed as a separate entity on the page.
What is a line
200
A type of nonsense verse with a definite pattern: a 5 line stanza rhyming aabba in which lines 1,2 & 5 have 3 anapestic feet and lines 3 & 4 have 2 anapestic feet.
What is a limerick.
200
A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics.
What is personification.
200
The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration.
200
The overall feeling evoked in the audience or reader of a poem.
What is mood.
300
The continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next.
What is enjambment.
300
A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet.
300
A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration.
What is hyperbole.
300
Bang, for example.
What is onomatopoeia.
300
The universal truth the poem conveys; its message.
What is theme.
400
Lines that end with a period, a comma, a colon, a semicolon, an exclamation point, or a question mark.
What is an end-stopped line.
400
A kind of poem devoted to the praise of a person, animal, or thing.
What is an ode.
400
A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work.
What is an allusion.
400
The pattern of rhymes used in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme.
400
The contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning.
What is irony.
500
A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem.
What is a couplet.
500
A poem about death and mourning.
What is an elegiac poem.
500
The opposite of hyperbole. It is a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is.