Vocab 1
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connecting words, such as "like" or "as."
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, such as "like" or 'as."
What is a Metaphor?
A word that sounds like what it means.
What is an Onomatopoeia?
What is a Symbol?
If you don't know a word, use a...
What is a Dictionary
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is Alliteration?
The author's specific word choice?
What is Diction?
The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the acting.
What is a Theme?
A a pair of end-rhymed lines of verse that are self-contained in grammatical structure and meaning.
What is a Couplet?
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What is All The Way Through?
Poetry that doesn't rhyme or have a measurable meter.
What is Free Verse?
A story/narrative in poetic form?
What is a Ballad?
A single line of poetry.
What is a Verse?
A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by the spacing between sections of the poem.
What is a Stanza?
Identify the...
What is the Narrator?
The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet's placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line.
What is Meter?
The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text.
What is Assonance?
This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation.
What is Enjambment?
The attitude the poem's narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character: serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, concerned, tongue-in-cheek, solemn, objective, etc.
What is Tone?
Notice...
What are Shifts or Changes?
A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art?
What is Allusion?
The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text?
What is Consonance?
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.
What is Rhythm?
The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of each line.
What is Anaphora?
What is the last step in reading a poem?
What is reading the poem aloud?