Poetic Definitions
A unified group of lines in poetry, often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.
What is a stanza?
"And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes" is an example of this device.
What is internal rhyme?
A sonnet has this many lines.
What is 14?
"That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles ..."
"And my daddy said, 'Stay away from Juliette'"
The attitude of the poem's narrator.
What is tone?
"not half so happy in Heaven" is an example of this.
What is alliteration?
What is a couplet.
"but he keeps on forgettin' /
What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud"
"He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out"
A word that sounds like what it means. For example, buzz, bang, quack, drip
What is onomatopoeia?
"Does it stink like rotten meat?" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
The three groups of four lines in the body of a sonnet are called this.
What is a quatrain.
"Jealousy, turning saints into the sea / Swimming through sick lullabies, choking on your alibis ..."
"But it's just the price I pay, destiny is calling me"
A rhyme from the middle to the end of a line or the middle of one to the middle of the next.
What is internal rhyme?
"I wonder what my bedsheets say about me when I'm not around" is an example of this.
What is personification?
This is the full rhyme scheme of an Elizabethan sonnet.
"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag / Drifting through the wind / Wanting to start again?/ Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin..."
"Like a house of cards"
What is alliteration?
What is enjambment?
The rhythm of a Shakespearean sonnet is known as this.
"I see trees of green, red roses too / I see them bloom for me and you..."
"And I think to myself, what a wonderful world"