Poetry Terms
Diction & Tone
Syntax
Musical Devices
Figurative Language
100
the narrative voice of the poem.
What is the speaker?
100
The emotional quality that a word possess; the literal meaning of a word
What is connotation and denotation?
100
makes complete sense if brought to a close before the actual ending. The main point is “front loaded.”
What is a loose sentence?
100
when rhyme occurs within a single line of verse
What is internal rhyme
100
a basic comparison of two generally unlike things that produced insight.
What is metaphor?
200
a combination of sounds that produces a harsh or discordant effect.
What is cacophony?
200
when the diction conveys feeling or attempting to convey dislike or contempt
What is a scornful tone?
200
the rhythm or "music" of a sentence that come through parallel elements and repetition.
What is cadence?
200
one syllable rhymes; two syllable rhymes
What is masculine and feminine rhyme?
200
a type of extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs an entire poem.
What is a conceit
300
a fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter
What is sonnet?
300
when the author's word choice gives the impression that something bad is going to happen
What is an ominous tone?
300
makes sense only when the end of the sentence is reached. The main point is “end loaded.”
What is a periodic sentence?
300
serious in purpose and convention (no slang, contractions; no idioms).
What is formal?
300
a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part
What is synechdoche?
400
the speaker addresses something or someone that cannot answer, something nonliving or inanimate.
What is apostrophe?
400
when an author's word choice creates an instructive quality as if to convey a moral lesson
What is a didactic tone?
400
refers to a grammatical or structural similarity between sentences or parts of a sentence. It involves an arrangement of words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs so that elements of equal importance are equally developed and similarly phrased.
What is parallel structure?
400
repetition of end consonant sounds in words and repetition of vowel sounds
What is consonance and assonance?
400
an elaborate, intellectually ingenious metaphor that shows the poet's realm of knowledge; it may be brief or extended.
What is a metaphysical conceit (or simply conceit, for short)?
500
represented by a two syllable foot that contains one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iambic meter?
500
when an author uses diction that expresses a strong distaste even hate toward something
What is a virulent tone?
500
the four basic sentence types: one makes a statement; one gives a command; one asks a question; one makes an exclamation.
what are declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences?
500
when a writer uses words to create a smooth, pleasant sound often the result of words that possess long vowel sounds
What is euphony?
500
a type of cross sensory metaphor that mixes multiple senses such as "loud shirt" or "bitter wind"
What is a synesthetic metaphor?
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