Vocab
the blank space that divides two stanzas from each other
Stanza Break
They way a crow
shook down on me
the dust of snow
from a hemlock tree
ABAB
This type of poem addresses a person or thing that is not present. (It is also a name for a common part of punctuation!)
Apostrophe
In "To The Snake" what did the speaker tell her “companions” she believes about the snake?
It was harmless
A comparison using like or as
simile
the shape, structure, or appearance of a piece of writing
form
A Bird, came down the Walk -
He did not know I saw -
He bit an Angle word in halves
And ate the fellow, raw
ABCB
This poetic tool involved the repetition of words at the beginning of a series of lines in a poem
Anaphora
In "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer", poet Walt Whitman uses repetition of the word "when" to show he felt what emotions?
Bored, uninterested, and/or confused
a direct comparison of two unlike things
metaphor
a four line stanza
quatrain
The art of lsing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
ABA
This type of rhyming involves words that share similar final consonant sounds - not similar final syllabic sounds!
Slant rhyme
In "The Copper Beech," what does Marie Howe mean when she says that the tree "wore that yard like a dress"?
An indirect reference to an outside work of art or cultural figure (it's not a magic trick!)
Allusion
a small part of a larger work; for example, one chapter of a novel or one paragraph of a newspaper article
excerpt
Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
ABAA
the attitude of a piece of writing, expressed through the style of writing and the words the author uses
Tone
In "Advice," what image does Dan Gerber use as a metaphor for unkind words?
Worms crawling out of the ground after the rain
a comparison not made directly
Implied metaphor
a section of a poem, which consists of a line or group of lines (kind of like a paragraph!
stanza
I realized it was half past four
When I, quite late, ran out the door.
My history class I so abhor,
But I missed two sessions the week before.
AAAA
This poetic form includes 19 lines, repeated phrases and lines, and an ABA rhyme scheme
villanelle
In "Traveling" Why might the man in the hospital feel like he is Gauguin?
Gauguin liked to travel and The man in the hospital is traveling in his mind.
describing non-human things as if they had human qualities
personification